1;Title;1 2;Preface;4 3;Organization;5 4;Contents;7 5;Chapter 1: Assistance Systems;10 5.1;Architecture of the 'Daily Care Journal' for the Support of Health Care Networks;11 5.1.1;Introduction;11 5.1.2;State of the Art;12 5.1.3;Application Scenarios;13 5.1.3.1;Setup of the Care Network;14 5.1.3.2;Inclusion of the Patient;14 5.1.3.3;Assign Access Rights;14 5.1.3.4;Form Creation;14 5.1.3.5;Care Documentation;15 5.1.3.6;Presentation of Care Document;15 5.1.3.7;Quality Management of Documentation;15 5.1.3.8;Optimizing Care Processes;15 5.1.3.9;AEDL Assessment;16 5.1.3.10;AEDL Presentation;16 5.1.4;Architecture;16 5.1.4.1;Logical Architecture;17 5.1.4.2;General Requirements of the Concrete Architecture;20 5.1.4.3;Service Modules;21 5.1.5;Future Work;23 5.1.6;References;24 5.2;Technological Stress - Mental Strain of Younger and Older Users If Technology Fails;25 5.2.1;Initial Situation;26 5.2.2;Research Methodology;26 5.2.3;Description of Experiment;27 5.2.4;Evaluation;29 5.2.5;Conclusions;35 5.3;Ubiquitous Life Support Systems for an Ageing Society in Japan;38 5.3.1;Japan as a Forerunner;38 5.3.1.1;Variety of the Players;38 5.3.1.2;Universities as the Scientific "Spine";39 5.3.1.3;General Innovation Enthusiasm;39 5.3.1.4;Growing Old in Japan;39 5.3.2;Strategies and Developments in Japan;40 5.3.2.1;The U Japan Strategy - Solution of Social Problems by Information Technology;40 5.3.2.2;Microsystem and Micromachines;41 5.3.2.3;Robotics;42 5.3.2.4;Yaoyorozu: Technology as an Assistant in the Everyday Life;42 5.3.3;Examples of Assistance Technologies in Categories;42 5.3.3.1;Home Care: Robotic Bed;42 5.3.3.2;Social Interaction: NetTansorWeb;44 5.3.3.3;Health and Wellness: Intelligence Toilet;45 5.3.3.4;Information and Learning: Dr. Kawashima;46 5.3.3.5;Professional Life: Stride Management Assistant;47 5.3.3.6;Mobility: Toyota i-Swing;48 5.3.3.7;Home Automation;50 5.3.3.8;Smart City: Town Management System;50 5.3.4;Implementing of AAL Technologies by Means of Modularized Residential Systems;51 5.3.5;Conclusions;54 5.3.5.1;Thematization of High-Tech-Assistance Since the Beginning of the 70s;54 5.3.5.2;"Universal Technologies" Instead of Agespecific Technologies;54 5.3.5.3;Technology and Status of the Elderly;54 5.3.5.4;Working with Preseries or Test Series;55 5.3.5.5;Modularized Residential Buildings as a Sales Motor;55 5.3.6;References;55 6;Chapter 2: Human Machine Interface;56 6.1;An Intelligent House Control Using Speech Recognition with Integrated Localization;57 6.1.1;Introduction;57 6.1.2;House Environment;58 6.1.3;Speech Recognition in House;59 6.1.3.1;Overall Design;59 6.1.3.2;Speech Recognition;61 6.1.4;Localization in House;61 6.1.4.1;Technical Realization;63 6.1.5;Experiments;64 6.1.5.1;Speech Recognition;64 6.1.5.2;Localization;65 6.1.6;Summary;67 6.1.7;References;67 6.2;Ambient Voice Control for a Personal Activity and Household Assistant;69 6.2.1;Introduction;69 6.2.2;User Acceptance Study;70 6.2.3;Challenges and Demands for Voice Controlled Ambient Assistive Technologies;71 6.2.3.1;Pre-processing Concepts for Speech Quality Enhancement;72 6.2.3.2;Concepts in Automatic Speech Recognition to Improve Recognition Performance for Acoustically Adverse Conditions;74 6.2.4;An Automatic Speech Recognition Experiment in an AAL Scenario;76 6.2.5;Summary and Conclusion;78 6.2.6;References;79 6.3;Natural Gesture Interaction with Accelerometer-Based Devices in Ambient Assisted Environments;81 6.3.1;Introduction;81 6.3.2;Overview and Related Works;82 6.3.2.1;Gestures Depends on Cultural Back-Ground;83 6.3.2.2;Throw and Tilt Interaction;83 6.3.2.3;Hand-Drawn Gestures;83 6.3.2.4;Postures and Gestures in Human-Computer-Interaction;84 6.3.3;Experiment for Determining Intuitive Gestures Using Accelerometer-Based Interaction Devices;84 6.3.3.1;Overview;84 6.3.3.2;Evaluation Environment;85 6.3.3.3;Participants;86 6.3.3.4;Evaluation Tasks;86 6.3.3.5;Accomplishment;87 6.3.4;Results;88 6.3.5;Discussion;88 6.3.6;Conclusion;89 6.3.7;References;89 6.