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In this paper, we present in depth the hardware components of a low-cost cognitive assistant. The aim is to detect the performance and the emotional state that elderly people present when performing exercises. Physical and cognitive exercises are a proven way of keeping elderly people active, healthy, and happy. Our goal is to bring to people that are at their homes (or in unsupervised places) an assistant that motivates them to perform exercises and, concurrently, monitor them, observing their physical and emotional responses. We focus on the hardware parts and the deep learning models so that they can be reproduced by others. The platform is being tested at an elderly people care facility, and validation is in process.
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Teles S, de Sousa RT, Abrantes D, Bertel D, Ferreira A, Paúl C. Bridging the gap between technology and older adults: insights from a collaborative workshop on R&D methodologies for ambient assisted living solutions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s40860-019-00090-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Alberola JM, del Val E, Costa A, Novais P, Julian V. A genetic algorithm for group formation in elderly communities. AI COMMUN 2018. [DOI: 10.3233/aic-180771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Juan M. Alberola
- D. Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain. E-mails: , ,
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- D. Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain. E-mails: , ,
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- Centro ALGORITMI, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal. E-mails: ,
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- Centro ALGORITMI, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal. E-mails: ,
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- D. Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain. E-mails: , ,
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Marcelino I, Laza R, Domingues P, Gómez-Meire S, Fdez-Riverola F, Pereira A. Active and Assisted Living Ecosystem for the Elderly. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2018; 18:E1246. [PMID: 29673234 PMCID: PMC5948742 DOI: 10.3390/s18041246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Revised: 04/09/2018] [Accepted: 04/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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A novel ecosystem to promote the physical, emotional and psychic health and well-being of the elderly is presented. Our proposal was designed to add several services developed to meet the needs of the senior population, namely services to improve social inclusion and increase contribution to society. Moreover, the solution monitors the vital signs of elderly individuals, as well as environmental parameters and behavior patterns, in order to seek eminent danger situations and predict potential hazardous issues, acting in accordance with the various alert levels specified for each individual. The platform was tested by seniors in a real scenario. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed ecosystem was well accepted and is easy to use by seniors.
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- Isabel Marcelino
- INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO Instituto de Novas Tecnologias-Delegação de Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal.
- School of Technology and Management, Computer Science and Communications Research Centre, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal.
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- ESEI: Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain.
- CINBIO: Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas, University of Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain.
- Grupo de Investigación SING, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Galicia Sur (IIS Galicia Sur), SERGAS-UVIGO, 36312 Vigo, Spain.
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- School of Technology and Management, Computer Science and Communications Research Centre, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal.
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- ESEI: Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain.
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- ESEI: Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain.
- CINBIO: Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas, University of Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain.
- Grupo de Investigación SING, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Galicia Sur (IIS Galicia Sur), SERGAS-UVIGO, 36312 Vigo, Spain.
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- INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO Instituto de Novas Tecnologias-Delegação de Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal.
- School of Technology and Management, Computer Science and Communications Research Centre, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal.
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Costa A, Rincon JA, Carrascosa C, Novais P, Julian V. Activities suggestion based on emotions in AAL environments. Artif Intell Med 2018; 86:9-19. [PMID: 29426681 DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2018.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2017] [Revised: 11/13/2017] [Accepted: 01/15/2018] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The elderly population is increasing and the response of the society was to provide them with services directed to them to cope with their needs. One of the oldest solutions is the retirement home, providing housing and permanent assistance for the elderly. Furthermore, most of the retirement homes are inhabited by multiple elderly people, thus creating a community of people who are somewhat related in age and medical issues. The ambient assisted living (AAL) area tries to solve some of the elderly issues by producing technological products, some of them dedicated to elderly homes. One of the identified problem is that elderly people are sometimes discontent about the activities that consume most of their day promoted by the retirement home social workers. The work presented in this paper attempts to improve how these activities are scheduled taking into account the elderlies' emotional response to these activities. The aim is to maximize the group happiness by promoting the activities the group likes, minding if they are bored due to activities repetition. In this sense, this paper presents an extension of the Cognitive Life Assistant platform incorporating a social emotional model. The proposed system has been modelled as a free time activity manager which is in charge of suggesting activities to the social workers.
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- Angelo Costa
- ISLab/ALGORITMI Center - University of Minho, Portugal.
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- Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación (DSIC), Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, Spain.
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- Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación (DSIC), Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, Spain.
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- ISLab/ALGORITMI Center - University of Minho, Portugal.
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- Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación (DSIC), Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, Spain.
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Rincon J, Costa A, Villarrubia G, Julian V, Carrascosa C. Introducing dynamism in emotional agent societies. Neurocomputing 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2017.03.091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Real-time personal health monitoring is gaining new ground with advances in wireless communications. Wireless body area networks (WBANs) provide a means for low-powered sensors, affixed either on the human body or in vivo, to communicate with each other and with external telecommunication networks. The healthcare benefits of WBANs include continuous monitoring of patient vitals, measuring postacute rehabilitation time, and improving quality of medical care provided in medical emergencies. This study sought to examine emerging trends in WBAN adoption in healthcare. To that end, a systematic literature survey was undertaken against the PubMed database. The search criteria focused on peer-reviewed articles that contained the keywords "wireless body area network" and "healthcare" or "wireless body area network" and "health care." A comprehensive review of these articles was performed to identify adoption dimensions, including underlying technology framework, healthcare subdomain, and applicable lessons-learned. This article benefits healthcare technology professionals by identifying gaps in implementation of current technology and highlighting opportunities for improving products and services.
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Isern D, Moreno A. A Systematic Literature Review of Agents Applied in Healthcare. J Med Syst 2015; 40:43. [PMID: 26590981 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-015-0376-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2015] [Accepted: 10/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Intelligent agents and healthcare have been intimately linked in the last years. The intrinsic complexity and diversity of care can be tackled with the flexibility, dynamics and reliability of multi-agent systems. The purpose of this review is to show the feasibility of applying intelligent agents in the healthcare domain and use the findings to provide a discussion of current trends and devise future research directions. A review of the most recent literature (2009-2014) of applications of agents in healthcare is discussed, and two classifications considering the main goal of the health systems as well as the main actors involved have been investigated. This review shows that the number of published works exhibits a growing interest of researchers in this field in a wide range of applications.
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- David Isern
- Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, ITAKA Research Group, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avda. Països Catalans, 26, 43007, Tarragona, Catalonia (Spain).
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- Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, ITAKA Research Group, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avda. Països Catalans, 26, 43007, Tarragona, Catalonia (Spain).
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Cognitive inference device for activity supervision in the elderly. ScientificWorldJournal 2014; 2014:125618. [PMID: 25405211 PMCID: PMC4227327 DOI: 10.1155/2014/125618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2014] [Revised: 08/06/2014] [Accepted: 08/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Human activity, life span, and quality of life are enhanced by innovations in science and technology. Aging individual needs to take advantage of these developments to lead a self-regulated life. However, maintaining a self-regulated life at old age involves a high degree of risk, and the elderly often fail at this goal. Thus, the objective of our study is to investigate the feasibility of implementing a cognitive inference device (CI-device) for effective activity supervision in the elderly. To frame the CI-device, we propose a device design framework along with an inference algorithm and implement the designs through an artificial neural model with different configurations, mapping the CI-device's functions to minimise the device's prediction error. An analysis and discussion are then provided to validate the feasibility of CI-device implementation for activity supervision in the elderly.
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A mobile Virtual Butler to bridge the gap between users and ambient assisted living: a Smart Home case study. SENSORS 2014; 14:14302-29. [PMID: 25102342 PMCID: PMC4179076 DOI: 10.3390/s140814302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2014] [Revised: 07/02/2014] [Accepted: 07/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Ambient Intelligence promises to transform current spaces into electronic environments that are responsive, assistive and sensitive to human presence. Those electronic environments will be fully populated with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of connected devices that share information and thus become intelligent. That massive wave of electronic devices will also invade everyday objects, turning them into smart entities, keeping their native features and characteristics while seamlessly promoting them to a new class of thinking and reasoning everyday objects. Although there are strong expectations that most of the users' needs can be fulfilled without their intervention, there are still situations where interaction is required. This paper presents work being done in the field of human-computer interaction, focusing on smart home environments, while being a part of a larger project called Aging Inside a Smart Home. This initiative arose as a way to deal with a large scourge of our country, where lots of elderly persons live alone in their homes, often with limited or no physical mobility. The project relies on the mobile agent computing paradigm in order to create a Virtual Butler that provides the interface between the elderly and the smart home infrastructure. The Virtual Butler is receptive to user questions, answering them according to the context and knowledge of the AISH. It is also capable of interacting with the user whenever it senses that something has gone wrong, notifying next of kin and/or medical services, etc. The Virtual Butler is aware of the user location and moves to the computing device which is closest to the user, in order to be always present. Its avatar can also run in handheld devices keeping its main functionality in order to track user when s/he goes out. According to the evaluation carried out, the Virtual Butler is assessed as a very interesting and loved digital friend, filling the gap between the user and the smart home. The evaluation also showed that the Virtual Butler concept can be easily ported to other types of possible smart and assistive environments like airports, hospitals, shopping malls, offices, etc.
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Villarrubia G, Bajo J, De Paz JF, Corchado JM. Monitoring and detection platform to prevent anomalous situations in home care. SENSORS 2014; 14:9900-21. [PMID: 24905853 PMCID: PMC4118350 DOI: 10.3390/s140609900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2014] [Revised: 05/25/2014] [Accepted: 05/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Monitoring and tracking people at home usually requires high cost hardware installations, which implies they are not affordable in many situations. This study/paper proposes a monitoring and tracking system for people with medical problems. A virtual organization of agents based on the PANGEA platform, which allows the easy integration of different devices, was created for this study. In this case, a virtual organization was implemented to track and monitor patients carrying a Holter monitor. The system includes the hardware and software required to perform: ECG measurements, monitoring through accelerometers and WiFi networks. Furthermore, the use of interactive television can moderate interactivity with the user. The system makes it possible to merge the information and facilitates patient tracking efficiently with low cost.
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- Gabriel Villarrubia
- Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain.
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- Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid 28660, Spain.
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- Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain.
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- Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain.
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