Enhanced living environments employ information and communications technologies to support true ambient assisted living for people with disabilities. This book provides an overview of today's architectures, techniques, protocols, components, and cloud-based solutions related to ambient assisted living and enhanced living environments.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to enhanced living environments


• Chapter 2: Enhanced living environments from the viewpoint of socioecological psychology


• Chapter 3: Pervasive sensing for social connectedness


• Chapter 4: Ethics in information and communication technologies: training the elderly in making gerontechnology accessible


• Chapter 5: End-users' AAL and ELE service scenarios in smart personal environments


• Chapter 6: Technological support to stress-level monitoring


• Chapter 7: Big data healthcare system to improve healthcare information searching in the Internet


• Chapter 8: Sensors for wireless body area networks


• Chapter 9: AALaaS/ELEaaS platforms


• Chapter 10: Linear wireless sensor networks and protocols in the next-generation networks


• Chapter 11: Model-compilation challenges for cyber-physical systems


• Chapter 12: Health monitoring using WBAN: topology design, routing and thermal issues


• Chapter 13: Wearable health care: technology evolution, algorithms and needs


• Chapter 14: Intelligent system for after-stroke home rehabilitation