The e-Lite Research Group will participate in the 40th IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computers, Software & Applications (COMPSAC 2016), in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 10-14, 2016. COMPSAC is the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications.
Fulvio Corno will attend the conference and will present two papers:
- A Healthcare Support System for Assisted Living Facilities: an IoT Solution, by F. Corno, L. De Russis, and A. Monge Roffarello.
- Learning the Social Web: a Multidisciplinary Approach, by L. De Russis, L. Farinetti and G. Taddeo.
The paper A Healthcare Support System for Assisted Living Facilities: an IoT Solution is presented in the Symposium on IT in Practice (ITiP). The paper presents the design, the implementation, and the experimental evaluation of a system capable of supporting the daily activities of healthcare assistants that operate in Assisted Living Facilities for people with physical or cognitive disabilities. The solution combines wearable and mobile technologies to improve assistance requests and anomaly detection. With this healthcare support system, caregivers can be automatically alerted of potentially hazardous situations that happen to the inhabitants while these are out of sight. Furthermore, inhabitants can require assistance instantly and from any point of the facility.
The paper Learning the Social Web: a Multidisciplinary Approach is presented in the Symposium on Computing Education & Learning Technologies (CELT). The paper describes a university-level experience started four academic years ago with a Social Web course. The course uses a multidisciplinary and active learning approach by requesting the students to design and prototype a Social Web application, and the teachers provide an active support and follow-up along the semester. The paper presents the adopted teaching strategies and analyzes the attained learning outcomes, both from the qualitative and quantitative point of views.