@article {Distefano2017439, title = {Personalized Health Tracking with Edge Computing Technologies}, journal = {BioNanoScience}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, year = {2017}, note = {cited By 0}, pages = {439-441}, publisher = {Springer New York LLC}, abstract = {

The health monitoring component is the essential block, a pillar of several e-health systems. Plenty of health tracking applications and specific technologies such as smart devices, wearables, and data management systems are available. To be effective, promptly reacting to issues, a health monitoring service must ensure short delays in data sensing, collection, and processing activities. This is an open problem that distributed computing paradigms, such as Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud, and Edge computing, could address. The solution proposed in this paper is based on Stack4Things, an IoT-Cloud framework to manage edge nodes such as mobiles, smart objects, network devices, workstations, as a whole, a computing infrastructure allowing to provide resources on-demand, as services, to end users. Through Stack4Things facilities, the health tracking system can locate the closer computing resource to offload processing and thus reducing latency per the Edge computing paradigm. {\textcopyright} 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

}, keywords = {Clouds, Computing infrastructures, Data management system, Distributed computer systems, Edge computing, Health, Health monitoring, Health tracking systems, human, human computer interaction, Information management, Internet, Internet of Things, Internet of Things (IOT), monitoring, Stack4Things, Tracking application, Wearable technology}, issn = {21911630}, doi = {10.1007/s12668-016-0388-5}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019121810\&doi=10.1007\%2fs12668-016-0388-5\&partnerID=40\&md5=e5aa843f2f869945fe04d5f62c97a6c5}, author = {Salvatore Distefano and Dario Bruneo and Francesco Longo and Giovanni Merlino and Antonio Puliafito} } @article {10.4108/cs.1.1.e4, title = {Achieving Assistive Technology Systems Based on IoT Devices in Cloud Computing}, journal = {EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cloud Systems}, volume = {15}, number = {1}, year = {2015}, month = {2}, publisher = {ICST}, keywords = {Assistive Technology, cloud computing, embedded systems, human computer interaction, Internet of Things, Users with disabilities.}, issn = {2410-6895}, doi = {10.4108/cs.1.1.e4}, author = {Davide Mulfari and Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio and Massimo Villari and Antonio Puliafito} } @proceedings {31, title = {Using Embedded Systems to Spread Assistive Technology on Multiple Devices in Smart Environments}, journal = {IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {5-11}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Belfast}, abstract = {

Nowadays, Assistive Technology (AT) systems are\ closely tied to the devices that they control. Considering a smart
environment where a person with a disability needs to interact\ with multiple devices, the user is forced to rely on AT software
tools available on the each used platform. Therefore, computer\ skills are required to adjust any different computing environment
configuration according to the user{\textquoteright}s needs and preferences.\ To address such issues, in this paper, we discuss the usage of
embedded systems able to interface sensors and existing AT\ software tools running on user{\textquoteright}s personal equipments, in order
to natively interact with many platforms. Thus, our work aims to\ decouple AT software tools from the accessed computer systems,
allowing us to control various kinds of computer systems, even\ those that do not provide any AT features, by using just a\ personal assistive equipment.

}, keywords = {Assistive Technology, embedded systems, human computer interaction, Internet of Things, Users with disabilities}, issn = {978-1-4799-5669-2}, doi = {10.1109/BIBM.2014.6999234}, author = {Davide Mulfari and Antonio Celesti and Maria Fazio and Massimo Villari and Antonio Puliafito} }