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    Data-driven analysis of interactions between people with dementia and a tablet device

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    Abstract In the project I-CARE a technical system for tablet devices is developed that captures the personal needs and skills of people with dementia. The system provides activation content such as music videos, biographical photographs and quizzes on various topics of interest to people with dementia, their families and professional caregivers. To adapt the system, the activation content is adjusted to the daily condition of individual users. For this purpose, emotions are automatically detected through facial expressions, motion, and voice. The daily interactions of the users with the tablet devices are documented in log files which can be merged into an event list. In this paper, we propose an advanced format for event lists and a data analysis strategy. A transformation scheme is developed in order to obtain datasets with features and time series for popular methods of data mining. The proposed methods are applied to analysing the interactions of people with dementia with the I-CARE tablet device. We show how the new format of event lists and the innovative transformation scheme can be used to compress the stored data, to identify groups of users, and to model changes of user behaviour. As the I-CARE user studies are still ongoing, simulated benchmark log files are applied to illustrate the data mining strategy. We discuss possible solutions to challenges that appear in the context of I-CARE and that are relevant to a broad range of applications.</jats:p

    Betwixt Things: The Ambivalence of Objects in Transitional Contexts

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    The socialisation significance of personal objects generates ambivalence within the transference context of human-object relations, as well as within the scope of intra-personal transformation and development processes. Things unfold their own specific effects in such transitional spaces, which can rarely be determined in advance or as a thing in itself. The thesis of this article is that precisely this blurring of betwixt and beyond makes objects so susceptible to ambivalence. From the perspective of the current discourses on ambivalence and its heuristics, these reflections are related to the possible impact of the first things and last things in the transitions that occur during the course of human life. This involves analysing (1) the importance of dolls as early childhood transitional objects, (2) how individuals deal with personal items when moving into a nursing home and (3) how objects are handled as they are inherited. All three transitional contexts create a remarkable potential for ambivalence dynamics, which have a performative effect while initiating the further development of identity

    Data-driven analysis of interactions between people with dementia and a tablet device

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    In the project I-CARE a technical system for tablet devices is developed that captures the personal needs and skills of people with dementia. The system provides activation content such as music videos, biographical photographs and quizzes on various topics of interest to people with dementia, their families and professional caregivers. To adapt the system, the activation content is adjusted to the daily condition of individual users. For this purpose, emotions are automatically detected through facial expressions, motion, and voice. The daily interactions of the users with the tablet devices are documented in log files which can be merged into an event list. In this paper, we propose an advanced format for event lists and a data analysis strategy. A transformation scheme is developed in order to obtain datasets with features and time series for popular methods of data mining. The proposed methods are applied to analysing the interactions of people with dementia with the I-CARE tablet device. We show how the new format of event lists and the innovative transformation scheme can be used to compress the stored data, to identify groups of users, and to model changes of user behaviour. As the I-CARE user studies are still ongoing, simulated benchmark log files are applied to illustrate the data mining strategy. We discuss possible solutions to challenges that appear in the context of I-CARE and that are relevant to a broad range of applications
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