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    • Achieving Adaptive Augmented Reality through Ontological Context-Awareness applied to AAL Scenarios 

      Hervás, Ramón; Bravo, José; Fontecha, Jesús; Villarreal, Vladimir (01/05/2013)
      This paper presents a proposal for supporting daily user needs by simple interactions with the environment through an augmented-reality perspective that applies proactive adaptation through knowledge representation using ...
    • Ambient intelligence: technological solution for wellnes and support to daily activities 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Villarreal, Vladimir; Fontecha, Jesús; Hervás, Ramón; Bravo, José (2012-07-04)
      Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a new paradigm in information technology, in which people are empowered through a digital environment that is aware of their presence and context, and is sensitive, adaptive, and responsive ...
    • An Architecture for Development of Ambient Assisted Living Applications: a Case Study in Diabetes 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Fontecha, Jesús; Hervás, Ramón; Bravo, José (2011-07-03)
      Advances in sensors, mobile and embedded devices have made possible patient monitoring and provided medical treatments and other assistance in health care. Aging populations will benefit from reduced costs and improved ...
    • Context Cookies 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Hervás, Ramón; Chavira, Gabriel; Nava, Salvador; Bravo, José (09/03/2008)
      In an ambient intelligence world, devices work in order to support people carrying out their everyday life activities in a natural way. Therefore, it is necessary to know the entities in the environment and to consider new ...
    • Diabetes Patients´ Care based on Mobile Monitoring 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Bravo, José; Laguna, Javier; Díez, Ana; Sánchez, Carlos; López, Silvia (2009-07-01)
      In this paper, we propose a new architecture for diabetes patients. These applications allow the monitoring, patient selfcontrol and communication between patient and doctor. Moreover, as an important study case, we present ...
    • Enabling NFC technology to public services 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Bravo, José; Hervás, Ramón; Peña, R; Vergara, M; Nava, SW; Chavira, Gabriel (1997-07-01)
      Ambient Intelligent are usually emerged in contexts like health, education, business and so on. However there are not many researches focusing on social aspects as public administrations. In these kinds of contexts, some ...
    • Enabling NFC technology to support activities in an Alzheimer's day center 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Bravo, José; Hervás, Ramón; Gallego, R; Casero, Gregorio; Vergara, Marcos; Carmona, T; Fuentes, Carmen; Nava, Salvador; Chavira, Gabriel (07/16/2016)
      Alzheimer's patients need a large amount of varied types of attention by carers, due to the disorders of memory and orientation they present. Knowledge about the particular state of each individual day-care patient is ...
    • From implicit to touching interaction by identification technologies: Towards tagging context 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Hervás, Ramón; Bravo, José; Fuentes, Carmen; Chavira, Gabriel; Nava, Salvador; Fontecha, Jesús; Casero, Gregorio; Peña, Rocio; Vergara, Marcos (07/19/2009)
      Intelligent environments need interactions capable of detecting users and providing them with good-quality contextual information. In this sense we adapt technologies, identifying and locating people for supporting their ...
    • From implicit to touching interaction: RFID and NFC approaches 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Salvador, Nava; Chavira, Gabriel; Hervas, Ramon; Bravo, José (05/25/2008)
      Intelligent environments need interactions capable of detecting users and providing them with goodquality contextual information. In this sense we adapt technologies identifying and locating people adjusting their requirements. ...
    • Identification technologies to support Alzheimer contexts 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Bravo, José; Hervás, Ramón; Gallego, R; Casero, Gregorio; Vergara, Marcos; Carmona, T; Fuentes, Carmen; Gachet, Diego; Nava, S; Chavira, Gabriel (07/16/2008)
      Alzheimer's disease makes great demands on care by assistants, due to the fact that they cannot distract their attention from patients while they are at the same time managing records. For that reason, technologies to ...
    • Mobile system for medical control of chronic diseases through intelligent devices 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Hervás, Ramón; Bravo, José; Manzano, Jesús (12/12/2012)
      The ageing of the population is a factor that in the future will increase the percentage of dependent people, given that there is a close relationship between dependence and age. When patients are in a health care environment, ...
    • MoMo: A Framework Proposal for Patient Mobile Monitoring 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Bravo, José; Hervás, Ramón (2004-07-02)
      In this paper, a patient mobile monitoring enabling framework is presented. To this end, biometric devices (e.g. glucometers, blood pressure meters) are used to send data to the mobile phone via technologies such as NFC ...
    • NFC Approach: Towards a Simple Interaction 

      Nava-Díaz, Salvador W.; Chavira, Gabriel; Hervás, Ramón; Villarreal, Vladimir; Bravo, José; Martón, Sergio; Castro, Manuel (2009-07-01)
      Nowadays, there are devices with great computing capabilities and these in different places around us. This technology opens us new possibilities and allows us the simple and easy interaction between user and computer. We ...
    • Ontological Context-Awareness for Adaptive Augmented Reality 

      Hervás, Ramón; Bravo, José; García-Lillo, Alberto; Fontecha, Jesús; Villarreal, Vladimir (2011-07-03)
      This paper presents a proposal for supporting daily user needs by simple interactions with the environment through an augmented-reality perspective and applying proactive adaptation through knowledge representation using ...
    • PIViTa: Taxonomy for Displaying Information in Pervasive and Collaborative Environments 

      Hervás, Ramón; Nava, Salvador; Chavira, Gabriel; Bravo, José; Villarreal, Vladimir (2009-07-01)
      In the years ahead, there are increasing demands for ubiquitous and continuous access to information and interactive devices embedded into a physical context are proliferated. Users need support for getting required ...
    • Services through NFC technology in AmI Environment 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Chavira, Gabriel; Nava, Salvador; Hervás, Ramón; Bravo, José; Martín, Sergio; Castro, Manuel (11/24/2008)
      The use of Near Field Communications technology in AmI environments is a further step in achieving our particular proposal of the vision of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. This work explores the single use ...
    • A Systematic Review for Mobile Monitoring Solutions in M-Health 

      Villarreal, Vladimir; Bravo, José; Hervás, Ramón (2016-09)
      A systematic review allows us to identify, assess, and interpret all possible relevant work associated with a question in particular or the subject of an area. Different authors can use several methodologies to learn about ...
    • Towards Simple Interaction in the Classroom: an NFC Approach 

      Nava-Díaz, Salvador W.; Chavira, Gabriel; Hervás, Ramón; Villarreal, Vladimir; Bravo, José (2008-06-30)
      In a given environment, distributing different devices with computing capabilities around us opens up new possibilities. It allows simple and easy interaction between user and computer. In this work we propose an approach ...
    • Using a Communication Model to Collect Measurement Data through Mobile Devices 

      Bravo, José; Villarreal, Vladimir; Hervás, Ramón; Urzaiz, Gabriel (07/05/2012)
      Wireless systems and services have undergone remarkable development since the first mobile phone system was introduced in the early 1980s. The use of sensors in an Ambient Intelligence approach is a great solution in a ...