This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2015, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2015.

Design and Usability.- Technical Challenges Towards an AAL Large Scale Deployment.- Design Considerations for Adaptive Lighting to Improve Seniors' Mood.- Perspectives on Collaboration in Technology Innovation for Ageing.- User Interaction Concepts in Smart Caring Homes for Elderlywith Chronic Conditions.- Assistive and Sentient Environments.- Using Sensory Substitution of Median Sensory Deficits in the TraumatizedHand to Develop an Innovative Home-Based Hand Rehabilitation System.QueFaire: Context-Aware in-Person Social Activity RecommendationSystem for Active Aging.- Human Behavior and Activities Monitoring.Recommendations for the Creation of Datasets in Support of Data DrivenActivity Recognition Models.- Activity Playback Modeling for Smart Home Simulation.- Activity Recognition in Assisted Living Facilities with Incremental, Approximate Ground Truth.- From User Requirements to Data: An XML Standard for Structuring Events in Monitored Environments.- Using Big Data for Emotionally Intelligent Mobile Services ThroughMulti-Modal Emotion Recognition.- Assistive and Sentient EnvironmentsSmartphone-Based System for Sensorimotor Control AssessmentMonitoring, Improving and Training at Home.- ''Get that Camera Out of My House!'' Conjoint Measurement of Preferences for Video-Based Healthcare Monitoring Systems in Private and Public Places.- Privacy-Preserving Energy-Reading for Smart Meter.- Human Behavior and Activities Monitoring.- Anti-fall: A Non-intrusive and Real-Time Fall Detector Leveraging CSI from Commodity WiFi Devices.- Smart Fall: Accelerometer-Based Fall Detection in a Smart Home Environment.- Dead Reckoning with Smartphone Sensors for Emergency Rooms.- Health IT and Supportive Technology.- A Kinematic Based Evaluation of Upper Extremity Movement Smoothness for Tele-Rehabilitation.- Home-Based Self-Management of Dementia: Closing the Loop.- Patient Centric Ontology for Telehealth Domain.- Durable Plug and Play Device for BedTele-Monitoring.- Serious Games and Personalization of the Therapeutic Education.- Australian Community Care Experience on the Design, DevelopmentDeployment and Evaluation of Implementing the Smarter Safer Homes Platform.- Measurement and Assessment of Hand Functionality via a Cloud-Based Implementation.- Influencing Factors in the Design of Smart Homes for Persons with Disabilities.- Multimodal Recognition of Emotions Using Physiological Signals with the Method of Decision-Level Fusion for Healthcare Applications.- Feature Sub-set Selection for Activity Recognition.- Reducing the Response Time for Activity Recognition Throughuse of Prototype Generation Algorithms.- Multi-occupant Movement Tracking in Smart Home Environments.- Improving User Engagement by Aggregating and Analysing Health & Fitness Data on a Mobile App.- Ambulatory Energy Expenditure Evaluation for Treadmill Exercises.- Facilitating Delivery and Remote Monitoring of Behaviour ChangeInterventions to Reduce Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease: The Gray Matters Study.- Preco Framework: A Predictive Approach for Comorbidities Risk Assessment.- SNS Based Predictive Model for Depression.- An Interactive Case-Based Flip Learning Tool for Medical Education.- Interactive Fridge: A Solution for Preventing Domestic Food Waste.- MonDossierMedical.ch: An Efficient Tool for Sharing Medical DataBetween Patients and Doctors.- SmartHealth and Internet of Things.- Genome Mining Using Machine Learning Techniques.