Title page -- Sponsors -- ICOST2006 Committee Members -- Keynote Speakers -- Preface -- Contents -- Invited Papers -- The Goal: Smart People, Not Smart Homes -- A Smart House for Emergencies in the Elderly -- Human-Computer Interaction -- SCYLLA: A Toolkit for Document Based Human Environment Interaction -- Gesture-Based Interface for Home Appliance Control in Smart Home -- Human-Robot User Studies in Eldercare: Lessons Learned -- Event Detection Using Audio in a Smart Home Context -- Human-Centred Design of an Assistive Ubiquitous Multimodal Dialogue System -- Smart Homes and Healthcare -- e-Care: An Assistive Technology Enabled Paradigm Shift -- Nurse Participation in the Design of User Interfaces for a Smart Home System -- Telemedicine for Elderly Patient at Home: The TelePat Project -- Around the Clock Personalized Heart Monitoring Using Smart Phones -- Robotised Assistance for Reduced Mobility Persons: Resume of a Project -- Why Elders Forget to Take Their Meds: A Probe Study to Inform a Smart Reminding System -- The SMART Project: An ICT Decision Platform for Home-Based Stroke Rehabilitation System -- Monitoring Health by Detecting Drifts and Outliers for a Smart Environment Inhabitant -- A Logical Approach to ADL Recognition for Alzheimer's Patients -- A Priori Evaluation of Acceptance of an Activity Monitoring Device for the Disabled Elderly Using the HIS as a Model -- Context Awareness and Activity Monitoring -- Intelligent Person-Centric Services for Smart Environments: 'Where Are You?' -- Elderly People Supporting Experiment in a Real-Life Environment -- A Self-Managing Infrastructure for Ad-Hoc Situation Determination -- A Context-Dependent Task Model for Task-Based Computing -- Manipulative Robotic Tasks in Smart Home Environments -- Remote Non-Intrusive Patient Monitoring -- Learning User Preferences in an Anxious Home.

A System for Activity Monitoring and Patient Tracking in a Smart Hospital -- Supporting Care Networks Through an Ubiquitous Collaborative Environment -- Easily Installable Sensor Unit Based on Measuring Radio Wave Leakage from Home Appliances for Behavioural Monitoring -- Sensors, Wearable Systems, Smart Devices and Robotics -- In-Motion Detection of Daily Life Activity Using Wireless Networked Smart Sensors -- Ultra Low Resolution Thermal Imaging for Kitchen Hazard Detection: A Technology Feasibility Study -- Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor System for Monitoring and Handling Bedridden Patients -- Selecting Optimal Recording Sites in Electrocardiography to Enhance Home Based Recovery Monitoring with Smart Clothes -- Evaluation of an Accelerometer-Based Mobility Telemonitoring Device in a Smart Home Environment -- Communications, Middleware and Privacy -- Building Plug-and-Play Smart Homes Using the Atlas Platform -- A Model for the Enforcement of Privacy Protection in Consumer Healthcare -- Sensor Fusion-Based Middleware for Assisted Living -- Designing Middleware for Smart Spaces -- Open Source Home Gateway Deployment -- An Automatic Driver Deployment Mechanism in the OSGi Gateway for Smart Homes -- Poster Presentations -- PerVision: An Integrated Pervasive Computing/Computer Vision Approach to Tracking Objects in a Self-Sensing Space -- New Multimodal Dialogue System for an Academic Intelligent Environment -- SVG as a Basis for HCI in Heterogeneous eHealth Systems -- A Design Process for the Research and Development of Smart Clothes with Embedded Technologies with Potential to Enhance Quality of Life for Older People -- Healthcare Technologies for Older People: What Do Physicians Think? -- Nestling Technology Between Life-Enhancing Environments and Caring Community Services -- A Design and Implementation of Alimentary Therapy Support System.

ASPICE: An Interface System for Independent Life -- Proactive Electronic Assistant for Intelligent Homecare Environments - A Development Pilot -- A New Generation of Wireless Personal Alarm Facilitating Context-Aware Location Based Emergency Response Outside the Home -- Learning Life Habits and Practices: An Issue to the Smart Home -- Context-Aware Media Personalization -- A Multiagent Architectural Framework for Smart Homes to Provide i-Care Services Supported by Decision Taking Procedures -- AE-Sim 2.0: A Distributed Simulator for Intelligent Spaces and Robots -- Providing Continuous Service in Context-Aware Computing System -- Author Index.