Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for social Good, GOODTECHS 2021, held in September 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.
The 24 full papers presented were selected from 53 submissions and issue design, implementation, deployment, operation, and evaluation of smart objects and technologies for social good. Social goods are products and services provided through private enterprises, government, or non-profit institutions and are related to healthcare, safety, sports, environment, democracy, computer science, and human rights. The papers are arranged in tracks on machine learning; IoT; social considerations of technology; technology and ageing; healthcare.

Inhalt
Learning.- Balancing activity recognition and privacy preservation with a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm.- Biometric data capture as a way to identify lack f physical activity in daily life.- Comparative Analysis of Process Mining Algorithms in Python.- COVID-19 Next Day Trend ForecastAnomaly Detection in Cellular IoT with Machine Learning.- Internet of Things.- A Smart IoT System for Water Monitoring and Analysis.- Decentralising the Internet of Medical Things with Distributed Ledger Technologies and Off-Chain Storages: a Proof of Concept.- Towards a Monitoring Framework for Users of Retirement Houses with Mobile Sensing.- Temporal authorization graphs: Pros, Cons and Limits.- Advanced 5G Network Slicing Isolation Using Enhanced VPN+ for Healthcare Verticals.- Social considerations of technology.- GuideSwarm: A Drone Network Design to Assist Visually-impaired People.- LISA - Lingua Italiana dei Segni Accessibile: A Progressive Web App to Support Communication Between Deaf People and Public Administrations.- Building emotionally stable, inclusive, and healthy communities with ICT: from state of the art to PSsmile app.- issue design, implementation, deployment, operation, and evaluation of smart objects and technologies for social good. Social goods are products and services provided through private enterprises, government, or non-profit institutions and are related to healthcare, safety, sports, environment, democracy, computer science, and human rights. The papers are arranged in tracks on machine learning; IoT; social considerations of technology; technology and ageing; healthcare.- Machine Management Technology for Institutional Environment in Pandemic Times.- Technology and ageing.- Augmented Reality, Vrtual Reality and Mixed Reality as driver tools for promoting cognitive activity and avoid isolation in ageing population.- Ageing@home: A secure 5G welfare technology solution for elderlies.- Defining the instruments for zero-measurement of psychologicalwell-being at older adults.- DERCA Tool: A set of Tests for Analysis of Elderly Dexterity in Information and Communications Technologies.- Building Inclusive Environments for All Ages with Citizens.- Healthcare.- The New Era of Technology applied to Cardiovascular Patients: State-of-the-art and Questionnaire applied for a System Proposal.- Co-design and engineering of user requirements for a novel ICT healthcare solution in Murcia, Spain.- What do nurses and carers in Portual wish and need from a digital intelligent assistant for nursing applications.- Examining Furniture Preferences of The Elderly in Greece.