Modelling the Behaviour of Elderly People as a Means of Monitoring Well Being (original) (raw)

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The care of elderly people in their own homes is being promoted throughout the world. The proportion of older people within western societies is rising, and it is anticipated that the already stretched resources of both the informal and formal care sectors will be unable to meet demand for home based care in the near future. This paper reports on work being undertaken within the BT Care in the Community project to model the lives of older people in order to understand, anticipate and respond to their home based care needs.

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  1. Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, United Kingdom
    Nick Hine, Andrew Judson, Saqib Ashraf & John Arnott
  2. University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
    Andrew Sixsmith
  3. BT Research, United Kingdom
    Steve Brown & Paul Garner

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  1. Nick Hine
  2. Andrew Judson
  3. Saqib Ashraf
  4. John Arnott
  5. Andrew Sixsmith
  6. Steve Brown
  7. Paul Garner

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, 10149, Torino, Italy
    Liliana Ardissono
  2. The SCRE Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Eldon Street, P.O. Box, G3 6NH, Glasgow, United Kingdom
    Paul Brna
  3. Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, P.O. Box, Christchurch, New Zealand
    Antonija Mitrovic

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Hine, N. et al. (2005). Modelling the Behaviour of Elderly People as a Means of Monitoring Well Being. In: Ardissono, L., Brna, P., Mitrovic, A. (eds) User Modeling 2005. UM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3538. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527886\_32

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