To make practical ubiquitous computing environment for everyday activities especially for house and home, the environment has to be proactively managed by the users at home themselves. This paper introduces an “Our Ubiquitous Computing Home Inside Project” and outlines some of our usercentered information architecture and interaction technique to provide practical ubiquitous computing environme...

Health monitoring at home could be an important element of care and support environment for older people. Diversity of diseases and different needs of users require universal design of a home platform. We present our work on a sensor-based multimodal platform that is trained to recognize the activities elderly person on their home. Two specific problems were investigated: configuration and func...

As home network is expanding into ubiquitous computing environment and a variety of services are realized, requirements and interests on security for smart home network are increasing. In order to make home network safe and stable, some security technologies including authentication, authorization, and security policy technology are needed. So, in this paper, we propose a light-weight access co...

BACKGROUND Young children with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at risk for cognitive delay. In addition to biologic risk factors associated with SCD, environmental factors contribute to cognitive dysfunction within this cohort. METHODS We completed a single-arm, prospective cohort study. Children with SCD between the ages of 3 and 36 months and their caregivers were followed between October 201...

36 BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity disproportionally affects children from low-income 37 households. With the aim of informing intervention, this study examined pathways through 38 which the physical and social home environment may promote childhood overweight/obesity in 39 low-income households. 40 METHODS: Data on health behaviors and the home environment were collected at home visits 41 in low...

IntRoductIon Hospice care is a type of care and a philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill or a seriously ill patient’s pain and symptoms, and attends to their emotional and spiritual needs.[1] Taiwan scholar Xie Mei introduced the concept of hospice care to the mainland of China in 1982 and the practice of hospice care in the mainland of China began then.[2] Tianji...