Pervasive healthcare is an emerging discipline concerning the application of wireless, mobile, and intelligent technologies to certain healthcare issues. Such issues within healthcare systems include the increased incidence of lifestyle- related diseases and chronic illnesses, the need to educate individuals on the management of their own health, the rise of consumerism in healthcare, and also the need to provide direct access to healthcare services, irrespective of time and place. Pervasive and Smart Technologies for Healthcare: Ubiquitous Methodologies and Tools provides insight from members of prestigious universities and research institutes around the world into possible solutions for the aforementioned pressures within todays healthcare systems. Pervasive healthcare... Less

As physical and digital interactions intertwine, new challenges for digital product designers and developers-as well as industrial designers and architects-are materializing. While well versed in designing navigation, organization, and labeling of Web sites and software, professionals are faced with the crucial challenge of applying these techniques to information systems that link the digital world to the physical world.Pervasive Information Architecture Provides Examples Showing Why And How One Would:-Model and shape information to adapt itself to users' needs, goals, and searching strategies- Reduce disorientation and increase legibility and way-finding in digital and physical spaces-Alleviate the frustration associated with choosing from an ever-growing set of information, services,... Less

Pervasive healthcare is the conceptual system of providing healthcare to anyone, at anytime, and anywhere by removing restraints of time and location while increasing both the coverage and the quality of healthcare. Pervasive Healthcare Computing is at the forefront of this research, and presents the ways in which mobile and wireless technologies can be used to implement the vision of pervasive healthcare. This vision includes prevention, healthcare maintenance and checkups; short-term monitoring (home healthcare), long-term monitoring (nursing home), and personalized healthcare monitoring; and incidence detection and management, emergency intervention, transportation and treatment. The pervasive healthcare applications include intelligent emergency management system, pervasive healthcare... Less

As physical and digital interactions intertwine, new challenges for digital product designers and developers-as well as industrial designers and architects-are materializing. While well versed in designing navigation, organization, and labeling of Web sites and software, professionals are faced with the crucial challenge of applying these techniques to information systems that link the digital world to the physical world.Pervasive Information Architecture Provides Examples Showing Why And How One Would:-Model and shape information to adapt itself to users' needs, goals, and searching strategies- Reduce disorientation and increase legibility and way-finding in digital and physical spaces-Alleviate the frustration associated with choosing from an ever-growing set of information, services,... Less

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2006, held in Taichung, Taiwan, in May 2006.The 64 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 267 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on grid scheduling, peer-to-peer computing, Web/grid services, high performance computing, ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, grid applications, data grid, pervasive applications, semantic Web, semantic grid, grid load balancing, wireless ad hoc/sensor networks, and mobile computing.

This book provides a cross- disciplinary reference to speech in mobile and pervasive environmentsSpeec h in Mobile and Pervasive Environments  add resses the issues related to speech processing on resource- constrained mobile devices. These include speech recognition in noisy environments, specialised hardware for speech recognition and synthesis, the use of context to enhance recognition and user experience, and the emerging software standards required for interoperability.   This book takes a multi- disciplinary look at these matters, while offering an insight into the opportunities and challenges of speech processing in mobile environs. In developing regions, speech-on-mobile is set to play a momentous role, socially and economically; the authors discuss how voice-based solutions and... Less

Ubiquitous computing is the third wave in computing, where the widespread use of new mobile technology- implementing wireless communications such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones enables a new type of advanced applications. In the past years, the main focus of research in mobile services has aimed at the anytime, anywhere principle (ubiquitous computing). However, there is more to it than that. The increasing demand for distributed problem solving led to the development of multi-agent systems. The latter are formed from a collection of independent software entities whose collective skills can be applied in complex and real-time domains. The target of such systems is to demonstrate how goal-directed, robust and optimal behavior can arise from interactions between... Less

Free Worldwide Delivery : Pervasive Information Architecture : Paperback : ELSEVIER SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : 9780123820945 : 0123820944 : 17 May 2011 : Provides examples showing why and how one would: model and shape information to adapt itself to users' needs, goals, and seeking strategies; reduce disorientation and increase legibility and way-finding in digital and physical spaces; and, learn about trade-offs that can be made and techniques for even the most unique design challenges.

GLUTAMINE SELECT from Beverly International Nutrition supports the fastest possible improvements in the appearance and performance of your physique by tackling a little known but pervasive condition known as "anabolic fatigue". GLUTAMINE SELECT is a powdered drink mix consisting of the amino acids glutamine, leucine, isoleucine and valine. The latter three comprise the branched-chain amino acids (BCAA). The development of GLUTAMINE SELECT rests on solid scientific grounds. By partnering glutamine with BCAA in quantities clinically- proven to be effective in bodybuilding athletes, its tremendous anabolic energy can finally be uncapped, enabling users to achieve levels of muscle protein, glycogen, mass, strength and hardness not possible by relying on the diet alone. Each ingredient in... Less

Pervasive healthcare is the conceptual system of providing healthcare to anyone, at anytime, and anywhere by removing restraints of time and location while increasing both the coverage and the quality of healthcare. Pervasive Healthcare Computing is at the forefront of this research, and presents the ways in which mobile and wireless technologies can be used to implement the vision of pervasive healthcare. This vision includes prevention, healthcare maintenance and checkups; short-term monitoring (home healthcare), long-term monitoring (nursing home), and personalized healthcare monitoring; and incidence detection and management, emergency intervention, transportation and treatment. The pervasive healthcare applications include intelligent emergency management system, pervasive healthcare... Less

If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with a pervasive developmental disorder (autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Rett Syndrome, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, or PDD-NOS), this book is for you. In an informative style, weaved with personal stories from parents, author Mitzi Waltz covers various topics: getting a diagnosis (including preparing for a diagnostic interview in a medical, psychiatric, or school setting, with descriptions of all diagnostic tests and checklists/questi ons used by professionals); treatment options (such as medications/suppl ements, sensory integration, occupational/phys ical/speech therapy, behavior modification, Floor time, and more); and coping with diagnosis and treatment (including emotions and support systems, insurance, and educational plans).

This volume provides state-of-the-art coverage of the diverse topics related to pervasive computing and intelligent multimedia technologies. The use of different computational intelligence- based approaches to various problems in pervasive computing are examined, including video streaming, intelligent behavior modeling and control for mobile manipulators, tele-gaming, indexing video summaries for quick video browsing, web service processes, virtual environments, ambient intelligence, and prevention and detection of attacks to ubiquitous databases. Topics and features: includes a comprehensive overview, providing a thorough literature review; examines virtual reality technology, and mobile virtual environments; describes various approaches in ambient intelligence for home health care for... Less

This book describes a new class of computing devices which are becoming omnipresent in every day life. They make information access and processing easily available for everyone from anywhere at any time. Mobility, wireless connectivity, di- versity, and e

Free Worldwide Delivery : Pervasive Games : Paperback : ELSEVIER SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : 9780123748539 : 0123748534 : 22 Jul 2009 : Explores aspects of pervasive games that concern game designers: what makes these games compelling, what makes them possible and how they are made. This book covers everything from theory and design to history and marketing designers, so that they can learn how to engage players' real-time experiences beyond the mobile phone or computer screen.

Piracy and smuggling are as great a problem today as they were several hundreds of years ago. The studies in Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers, for the first time, carefully describe and critically analyze piracy and smuggling in the Greater China Seas region from the sixteenth century to the present. Because piracy and smuggling involve complex historical processes that are still evolving, to fully understand contemporary problems it is important to place them in larger historical and comparative perspectives.The essays in this book add significantly to the scholarship on East and Southeast Asian history, and in particular to the maritime history of the region we call the Greater China Seas. This is the first book to analyze the whole region from Japan to Southeast Asia as a single,... Less

Creating a PowerPoint presentation from start to finish is an impressive task and the Total Training™ for Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 will show you just how it's done. PowerPoint is pervasive from the classroom to the boardroom and even our living room. In this series you will discover not only legacy and new features offered in PowerPoint 2010 but also ensure you know how to include good design, utilize appropriate content and deliver polished, memorable but not overwhelming presentations. It's this combination of skills and techniques that differentiate mediocre presentations and those some would rather bury than have to watch from those that effectively communicate, regardless of the audience or purpose. This series will take you from start to finish covering presentation design,... Less

In an emergency, availability of the pervasive communications environment could mean the difference between life and death. Possibly one of the first guides to comprehensively explore these futuristic omnipresent communications networks, the Pervasive Communications Handbook addresses current technology (i.e., MAC protocols and P2P-based VoD architecture) and developments expected in the very near future, when most people and places will be virtually connected through a constant and perpetual exchange of information. This monumental advance in communications is set to dramatically change daily life, in areas ranging from healthcare, transportation, and education to commerce and socialization. With contributions from dozens of pioneering experts, this important reference discusses... Less

This book looks at the future of advertising from the perspective of pervasive computing. Pervasive computing encompasses the integration of computers into everyday devices, like the covering of surfaces with interactive displays and networked mobile phones. Advertising is the communication of sponsored messages to inform, convince, and persuade to buy. We believe that our future cities will be digital, giving us instant access to any information we need everywhere, like at bus stops, on the sidewalk, inside the subway and in shopping malls. We will be able to play with and change the appearance of our cities effortlessly, like making flowers grow along a building wall or changing the colour of the street we are in. Like the internet as we know it, this digitalization will be paid for by... Less

This book presents theories and clinical practices for dealing with children diagnosed with pervasive developmental disability or PDD. These are children who have a wide range of disabilities that affect their participation in even the most routine events of daily life, such as eating, dressing, bathing, and so on. Unlike many who are diagnosed with classic autism, however, these children seem to have normal social behavior, normal physical appearance, the ability to learn, hear, see, and move their bodies at will-in other words, none of the well-known reasons that cause autistic and other children to develop differently. These children have the use of all their senses, but their brains are unable to process the information that is fed through them. While much new research is being done... Less

The concept of aware systems is among the most exciting trends in computing today, fueled by recent developments in pervasive computing, including new computers worn by users, embedded devices, smart appliances, sensors, and varieties of wireless networking technology. Context-Aware Pervasive Systems: The Architecture of a New Breed of Applications introduces a diverse set of application areas and provides blueprints for building context-aware behavior into applications. Reviewing the anatomy of context-aware pervasive applications, this resource covers abstract architecture. It examines mobile services, appliances, smart devices, software agents, electronic communication, sensor networks, security frameworks, and intelligent software agents. The book also discusses the use of context... Less

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing, PERVASIVE 2005, held in Munich, Germany in May 2005. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on location techniques, activity and context, location and privacy, handheld devices, sensor systems, and user interaction.

This book focuses on evaluating pervasive games. Therefore analyzing the effectiveness and appropriateness of traditional human computer interaction methods to evaluate design, interactions, and user experience in the context of pervasive games are the topic of this book. Specifically here, the focus will be on supporting a human-centered iterative design process with formative evaluations of pervasive games, which are intended to shape and improve designs. Pervasive games are played in the real world, so traditionally the evaluation takes place in the field. Thus we will first focus on the examination of methods including product- interactive focus groups and analysis of interviews as well as video recordings using grounded theory. But evaluation in the field is not always... Less

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Trustworthy Data Management in Pervasive Environments by Anand Patwardhan Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New An era of computing is rapidly emerging where mobile agents autonomously retrieve and process information from various anchored and mobile sources from a pervasive environment. Limitations in individual capabilities subject to prevalent physical and energy constraints in the surrounding environment and the