Motion or inertial sensors such as gyroscope and accelerometer commonly found in
smartwatches and smartphones can measure characteristics such as acceleration and …

Motion-based technology (MBT) has been applied in the last decades with enormous
success in a high number of applications. Its use continues growing and is specially …

The physiological monitoring of older people using wearable sensors has shown great
potential in improving their quality of life and preventing undesired events related to their …

Background Frailty assessment is a critical approach in assessing the health status of older
people. The clinical tools deployed by geriatricians to assess frailty can be grouped into two …

Activity classification is a challenging problem due to large signal dimensionality, high intra-
and inter-subject variability in activity patterns, presence of transitional classes showing …

Wider availability of sensors and sensing systems has pushed research in the direction of
automatic activity recognition (AR) either for medical or other personal benefits eg wellness …

Aged Care Monitoring Devices (ACMDs) collect and share information about older adults to
ensure their wellbeing. While monitoring devices enable older adults to live independently …

Elderly and individuals with disabilities can greatly benefit from human activity recognition
(HAR) systems, which have recently advanced significantly due to the integration of the …

The NITICS1 project is focused on assistance to elderly people in their homes. Its main goal
is to develop a complex system which would cover all aspects from elderly people's safety to …

Assessing the frailty of older people quantitatively is critical to prevent potential accidents
and to ensure their well-being. The older people with high frailty score are at the risk of fall …