Rapid specification and automated generation of prompting systems to assist people with dementia

J Hoey, T Plötz, D Jackson, A Monk, C Pham… - Pervasive and Mobile …, 2011 - Elsevier
Activity recognition in intelligent environments could play a key role for supporting people in
their activities of daily life. Partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) models …

[图书][B] Design and the digital divide: insights from 40 years in computer support for older and disabled people

AF Newell - 2011 - books.google.com
Demographic trends and increasing support costs means that good design for older and
disabled people is an economic necessity, as well as a moral imperative. Alan Newell has …

The design of intelligent in-home assistive technologies: Assessing the needs of older adults with dementia and their caregivers

S Czarnuch, A Mihailidis - Gerontechnology, 2011 - research.tue.nl
Objective: To determine the needs of older adults with dementia and their family caregivers
during Activities of Daily Living (ADL), and the role of intelligent assistive technology (AT) in …

Closing the gap: Improved bounds on optimal POMDP solutions

P Poupart, KE Kim, D Kim - Proceedings of the International Conference …, 2011 - ojs.aaai.org
POMDP algorithms have made significant progress in recent years by allowing practitioners
to find good solutions to increasingly large problems. Most approaches (including point …

The future of intelligent assistive technologies for cognition: devices under development to support independent living and aging-with-choice

J Boger, A Mihailidis - NeuroRehabilitation, 2011 - content.iospress.com
A person's ability to be independent is dependent on his or her overall health, mobility, and
ability to complete activities of daily living. Intelligent assistive technologies (IATs) are …

Navigation and obstacle avoidance help (NOAH) for older adults with cognitive impairment: a pilot study

P Viswanathan, JJ Little, AK Mackworth… - The proceedings of the …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Many older adults with cognitive impairment are excluded from powered wheelchair use
because of safety concerns. This leads to reduced mobility, and in turn, higher dependence …

Activity monitoring systems in health care

B Kröse, T van Oosterhout, T van Kasteren - Computer analysis of human …, 2011 - Springer
This chapter focuses on activity monitoring in a home setting for health care purposes. First
the most current sensing systems are described, which consist of wearable and ambient …

Challenging issues of ambient activity recognition for cognitive assistance

PC Roy, B Bouchard, A Bouzouane… - Handbook of Research …, 2011 - igi-global.com
In order to provide adequate assistance to cognitively impaired people when they carry out
their activities of daily living (ADLs) at home, new technologies based on the emerging …

A vision-based system for hand washing quality assessment with real-time feedback

S Ameling, J Li, J Zhou, A Ghosh, G Lacey… - The Eighth IASTED …, 2011 - actapress.com
Hand washing is a critical activity in preventing the spread of infection in healthcare
environments and contamination in food processing industries. The World Health …

[PDF][PDF] Efficient planning in R-max.

M Grzes, J Hoey - AAMAS, 2011 - researchgate.net
ABSTRACT PAC-MDP algorithms are particularly efficient in terms of the number of samples
obtained from the environment which are needed by the learning agents in order to achieve …