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Exploring Patterns of Activities of Daily Living in the Home Environment
Background: Senior citizens tend to live longer and longer independently. Judging whether a senior person is still capable of living on his own is often based on the occurrence of incidents, with all consequences thereof. In the specific case of early dementia, the symptoms are not immediately apparent and the occurrence and severity of incidents progress gradually over time. In this case, the children or grandchildren are burdened by the question whether or not the elderly adult can still live safely and independently in his or her own home. This decision is only based on input obtained through incidental visits. We believe that the capability of independent living can only be objectively judged, by a health professional, if long term objective information on the elderly person's daily activities of living (ADL) is available
Mining user activity as a context source for search and retrieval
Nowadays in information retrieval it is generally accepted that if we can better
understand the context of users then this could help the search process, either at indexing time by including more metadata or at retrieval time by better modelling the user context. In this work we explore how activity recognition from tri-axial accelerometers can be employed to model a user's activity as a means of enabling context-aware information retrieval. In this paper we discuss how we can gather user activity automatically as a context source from a wearable mobile device and we evaluate the accuracy of our proposed user activity recognition algorithm. Our technique can recognise four kinds of activities which can be used to model part of an individual's current context. We discuss promising experimental results, possible approaches to improve our algorithms, and the impact of this work in modelling user context toward enhanced search and retrieval
Activity Recognition using Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models on Streaming Sensor Data
Activity recognition from sensor data deals with various challenges, such as
overlapping activities, activity labeling, and activity detection. Although
each challenge in the field of recognition has great importance, the most
important one refers to online activity recognition. The present study tries to
use online hierarchical hidden Markov model to detect an activity on the stream
of sensor data which can predict the activity in the environment with any
sensor event. The activity recognition samples were labeled by the statistical
features such as the duration of activity. The results of our proposed method
test on two different datasets of smart homes in the real world showed that one
dataset has improved 4% and reached (59%) while the results reached 64.6% for
the other data by using the best methods
A study of existing Ontologies in the IoT-domain
Several domains have adopted the increasing use of IoT-based devices to
collect sensor data for generating abstractions and perceptions of the real
world. This sensor data is multi-modal and heterogeneous in nature. This
heterogeneity induces interoperability issues while developing cross-domain
applications, thereby restricting the possibility of reusing sensor data to
develop new applications. As a solution to this, semantic approaches have been
proposed in the literature to tackle problems related to interoperability of
sensor data. Several ontologies have been proposed to handle different aspects
of IoT-based sensor data collection, ranging from discovering the IoT sensors
for data collection to applying reasoning on the collected sensor data for
drawing inferences. In this paper, we survey these existing semantic ontologies
to provide an overview of the recent developments in this field. We highlight
the fundamental ontological concepts (e.g., sensor-capabilities and
context-awareness) required for an IoT-based application, and survey the
existing ontologies which include these concepts. Based on our study, we also
identify the shortcomings of currently available ontologies, which serves as a
stepping stone to state the need for a common unified ontology for the IoT
domain.Comment: Submitted to Elsevier JWS SI on Web semantics for the Internet/Web of
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Challenges in Annotation of useR Data for UbiquitOUs Systems: Results from the 1st ARDUOUS Workshop
Labelling user data is a central part of the design and evaluation of
pervasive systems that aim to support the user through situation-aware
reasoning. It is essential both in designing and training the system to
recognise and reason about the situation, either through the definition of a
suitable situation model in knowledge-driven applications, or through the
preparation of training data for learning tasks in data-driven models. Hence,
the quality of annotations can have a significant impact on the performance of
the derived systems. Labelling is also vital for validating and quantifying the
performance of applications. In particular, comparative evaluations require the
production of benchmark datasets based on high-quality and consistent
annotations. With pervasive systems relying increasingly on large datasets for
designing and testing models of users' activities, the process of data
labelling is becoming a major concern for the community. In this work we
present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the challenges associated
with annotation of user data and possible strategies towards addressing these
challenges. The analysis was based on the data gathered during the 1st
International Workshop on Annotation of useR Data for UbiquitOUs Systems
(ARDUOUS) and consisted of brainstorming as well as annotation and
questionnaire data gathered during the talks, poster session, live annotation
session, and discussion session
Interpreting health events in big data using qualitative traditions
© The Author(s) 2020. The training of artificial intelligence requires integrating real-world context and mathematical computations. To achieve efficacious smart health artificial intelligence, contextual clinical knowledge serving as ground truth is required. Qualitative methods are well-suited to lend consistent and valid ground truth. In this methods article, we illustrate the use of qualitative descriptive methods for providing ground truth when training an intelligent agent to detect Restless Leg Syndrome. We show how one interdisciplinary, inter-methodological research team used both sensor-based data and the participant’s description of their experience with an episode of Restless Leg Syndrome for training the intelligent agent. We make the case for clinicians with qualitative research expertise to be included at the design table to ensure optimal efficacy of smart health artificial intelligence and a positive end-user experience
LifeLogging: personal big data
We have recently observed a convergence of technologies to foster the emergence of lifelogging as a mainstream activity. Computer storage has become significantly cheaper, and advancements in sensing technology allows for the efficient sensing of personal activities, locations and the environment. This is best seen in the growing popularity of the quantified self movement, in which life activities are tracked using wearable sensors in the hope of better understanding human performance in a variety of tasks. This review aims to provide a comprehensive summary of lifelogging, to cover its research history, current technologies, and applications. Thus far, most of the lifelogging research has focused predominantly on visual lifelogging in order to capture life details of life activities, hence we maintain this focus in this review. However, we also reflect on the challenges lifelogging poses to an information retrieval scientist. This review is a suitable reference for those seeking a information retrieval scientist’s perspective on lifelogging and the quantified self
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