Fall cases of elderly people aged 65 or above put their health at risk because it could lead to hip bone fracture, concussion, even death. Immediate help is needed if fall happened which why an automatic and unobtrusive detection system needed. There are three approaches in system; wearable, ambience, vision-based. Wearable approach has the drawback its obtrusive nature while ambience prone hig...

Multimodality allows adaption of human-computer interaction on two different levels: on the one hand different users with different abilities can interact with information technology through a customized configuration of interaction devices supporting their individual needs. On the other hand output can be adapted to user context within different environments, e.g. in the car, in the living roo...

This work aims to present an approach for the retrieval of bilingual Spanish-English information based on EuroWordNet and basing itself on another linguistic source such as SemCor, the latter used to calculate the translation probability in words that share same meaning in EuroWordNet. It is, therefore, about evaluating the linguistic aid SemCor, of long-standing tradition in IR tasks, in a bil...

The paper describes interdisciplinary research that has produced systems and devices to support the work of architecture, engineering and construction. Spatial computing facilitates the production of abstract and literal spaces for collaboration and teamwork, modelling and experimentation with 3D sites and terrains, bridging between digital and physical materials, mobility, and ambience, with t...

Two applications from different projects in which video content is distributed over in-home networked devices are presented. Multiple displays and ambience objects are used to display interactive content. Major issues concern the design of appropriate evaluation methodologies, the use of perceived video quality to achieve efficient resource allocation and the subjective role of content consumpt...