Human-centric situational awareness in the bedroom

Yu Chun Yen, Jiun Yi Li, Ching Hu Lu, Tsung Han Yang, Li Chen Fu

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Abstract

Bed-related situation monitoring is a crucial task in geriatric healthcare. Due to shortage of qualified caregivers, automatic detection of the situation in a bedroom is desirable since risks may arise when an elder gets up from the bed alone. In addition, analyzing the total amount of care time of an elder is helpful when the social effect on the improvement of the elder's health needs to be evaluated. This paper presents a context-aware healthcare system which makes use of multi-modal and un-obtrusive sensing technology meanwhile taking human feeling into account. Specifically, we choose ambient sensors such as pressure straps and a laser scanner to monitor both the activity of the elder and his/her surroundings. Moreover, a context fusion is further proposed to infer the situation of the elder. Experimental results demonstrate the high promise of our proposed methods for bed-related situation awareness.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationToward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities - 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, Proceedings
Pages72-79
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics: Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities, ICOST 2011 - Montreal, QC, Canada
Duration: 20 Jun 201122 Jun 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6719 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics: Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities, ICOST 2011
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal, QC
Period20/06/1122/06/11

Keywords

  • Context-aware
  • multi-modal sensor fusion
  • situation awareness

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