{"title":"Finding a Holistic Design for Elderly People to Type on Smartphones","authors":"Li Liu, Edward C. Dillon, Jingyuan Zhang","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3056545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3056545","url":null,"abstract":"The small size of keyboard and keys makes typing difficult on smartphones. Fast and accurate text entry is highly desired by elderly smartphone users. However, human factors heavily affect their experience of typing on a miniature surface. More and more applications require additional and precise typing while ambiguity arises when the 62-character alphanumeric scheme is mapped to a smartphone keyboard with fewer keys, leading to ambiguity. In this paper, we propose a novel text entry approach called PluralTap that breaks up a traditional smartphone keyboard layout and allows concurrent key tapping on different surfaces. By discretely displacing input elements PluralTap improves the speed and accuracy of text entry, enabling elderly users with more finger engagement and less finger movement. Results from our pilot study reveal that PluralTap is a more efficient approach for text entry than using existing key layouts.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129154554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Survey on Sign Language Recognition Using Smartphones","authors":"Sakher Ghanem, C. Conly, V. Athitsos","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3056549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3056549","url":null,"abstract":"Deaf people around the globe use sign languages for their communication needs. Innovations of new technologies, such as smartphones, offer a host of new functionalities to their users. If such mobile devices become capable of recognizing sign languages, this will open up the opportunity for offering significantly more user-friendly mobile apps to sign language users. However, in order to achieve satisfactory results, there are many challenges that must be considered and overcome, such as light conditions, background noise, processing, and energy limitations. This paper aims to cover the most recent techniques in mobile-based sign language recognition systems. We categorize existing solutions into sensors-based and vision-based, as these two categories offer distinct advantages and disadvantages. The primary focus of this literature review is on two main aspects of sign language recognition: feature detection and sign classification algorithms.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117341968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Koumpouros, A. Karavasili, E. Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Theodore Goulas, A. Vacalopoulou
{"title":"User Evaluation of the MOBOT rollator type robotic mobility assistive device","authors":"Y. Koumpouros, A. Karavasili, E. Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Theodore Goulas, A. Vacalopoulou","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3076183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3076183","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we report on the evaluation strategy and results obtained from the final end-user evaluation process of an innovative robotic assistive device supporting mobility. More specifically, we report on the evaluation of the MOBOT robotic rollator as regards the system's overall performance and its individual assistive characteristics and functionalities as implemented in respect to (i) the provided cognitive assistance, and (ii) the adopted audio-gestural human-robot communication model. The evaluation phase exploited the QUEST 2.0, ATDPA-Device Form and PYTHEIA scales to measure the subjective satisfaction of the users. Analysis of the results shows that MOBOT was ranked very high by end users in all issues addressed by the three employed scales.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131078660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abubaker Elbayoudi, Ahmad Lotfi, C. Langensiepen, Kofi Appiah
{"title":"Trend Analysis Techniques in Forecasting Human Behaviour Evolution","authors":"Abubaker Elbayoudi, Ahmad Lotfi, C. Langensiepen, Kofi Appiah","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3076198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3076198","url":null,"abstract":"Analysis of human behaviour changes is a subject of interest for many researchers. This could be obtained considering either short-term or long-term changes. The aim of this study is to find long-term changes (behaviour evolution) in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) or Activities of Daily Working (ADW) of users in an Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environment. Analysis is based on introduction of a novel Human Behaviour Momentum Indicator (HBMI). Extensive experiments are conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the studied techniques on real-world datasets collected from home and office environments. To show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, results are compared with Relative Strength Index (RSI). The results show that trends in ADL or ADW can be detected and the direction of the activity's trend are predicted. In addition, the results show that our proposed technique gives a better response to changes in data more than the other technique.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114578292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anton Akusok, Emil Eirola, Kaj-Mikael Björk, Y. Miché, H. Johnson, A. Lendasse
{"title":"Brute-force Missing Data Extreme Learning Machine for Predicting Huntington's Disease","authors":"Anton Akusok, Emil Eirola, Kaj-Mikael Björk, Y. Miché, H. Johnson, A. Lendasse","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3064945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3064945","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel procedure to train Extreme Learning Machine models on datasets with missing values. In effect, a separate model is learned to classify every sample in the test set, however, this is accomplished in an efficient manner which does not require accessing the training data repeatedly. Instead, a sparse structure is imposed on the input layer weights, which enables calculating the necessary statistics in the training phase. An application to predicting the progression of Huntington's disease from brain scans is presented. Experimental comparisons show promising results equivalent to the state of the art in machine learning with incomplete data.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123022652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alex Dillhoff, Himanshu Pahwa, C. Conly, V. Athitsos
{"title":"Providing Meaningful Alignments for Periodic Signs","authors":"Alex Dillhoff, Himanshu Pahwa, C. Conly, V. Athitsos","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3056544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3056544","url":null,"abstract":"In sign languages, a periodic sign is one that contains repeated movements. Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is often used in sign language recognition to generate a frame alignment between two input signs that provides a measure of their similarity. Alignments provided by DTW may not be meaningful when the input contains periodic signs, especially when the number of periods differs between inputs. Additionally, the number of periods may change between individual signers and signs. Little work has been done to address the problem of recognizing periodic signs in the context of DTW. This work evaluates two DTW-based approaches. The first uses a newly defined periodic warping path. The second uses manual annotations to truncate periodic input to contain no more than two periods. These two methods are compared against a standard implementation of DTW. Recognition accuracy and quality of alignment are analyzed. The results motivate a need for further research in periodic sign language recognition.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123337271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Older people and robotic technologies in the home: perspectives from recent research literature","authors":"H. Petrie, J. Darzentas","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3056553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3056553","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a review of research on robotic interventions for older people living at home. More specifically, it reviews results from the recent literature, from the point of view of the tasks that robots are being designed to carry out; the needs and values of older people with regard to robotic interventions; methods of working with older people; barriers to robot acceptance and ways of overcoming these barriers. This review will be useful to the robot research community for deepening understanding of the many interrelated issues involved in assistive robots for older people. In addition, it can be helpful for multidisciplinary design teams to encourage knowledge sharing across disciplines and building upon research results.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129977897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mauro Ávila-Soto, Elba del Carmen Valderrama Bahamóndez, A. Schmidt
{"title":"TanMath: A Tangible Math Application to support children with visual impairment to learn basic Arithmetic","authors":"Mauro Ávila-Soto, Elba del Carmen Valderrama Bahamóndez, A. Schmidt","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3064964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3064964","url":null,"abstract":"Learning Mathematics is a challenge for students with visual impairments (VI) during school life. Tangible resources like magnetic numbers, the Brannan Cubarithm or the Japanese abacus joined with computer based tools like Text to Speech and Computer Vision offer new possibilities to aid pupils with VI to learn Math. In this work we present a first approach which aim to integrate these elements into a Tangible User Interface (TUI) to support students with VI to learn basic Arithmetic. We have devised a first multimodal approach based on auditory feedback and tangible numbers to support an elementary school student to write, solve and present arithmetic operations. We describe our main observations, advantages and drawbacks found during an early stage experiment, we discuss the potential directions where Tangible User Interfaces can support teaching of mathematics for students with VI, and we establish concrete points for future work in this field.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134633964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demand Analysis for an Augmented Reality based Assembly Training","authors":"Stefan Werrlich, Kai Nitsche, G. Notni","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3076190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3076190","url":null,"abstract":"The first head-mounted display (HMD) was developed in 1986 by Ivan Sutherland. Since then, augmented reality (AR) applications are largely limited to prototypes. One reason might be the lack of user comprehension regarding user requirements. In order to develop a HMD-based training system for daily use, it is important to understand user demands. This paper aims at presenting a demand analysis for an industrial engine assembly line at the car manufacturer BMW Group. We describe the background of training within industries (TWI) and present extant AR-based training studies. We use the value proposition design method to analyze our customers and classify our requirements with a common quality management method, the Kano Model. We find four \"must-have\" requirements for a HMD-based training system, which are crucial for the development of a minimal viable solution. In order to familiarize assembly employees with augmented reality applications, we design a simple demonstration for the Microsoft HoloLens. Additionally, we present future research directions focusing on comprehensive user studies in real industrial environments.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133281937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use Case Focused User-Interaction Diagram: A Communication Tool within AAL Projects","authors":"D. Krainer, D. Ströckl, J. Oberzaucher","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3064944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3064944","url":null,"abstract":"The modeling of user interaction in the context of Active and Assisted Living (AAL) projects requires the involvement of different stakeholder groups to achieve usable and acceptable results. Within the research project ZentrAAL a comprehensive participatory approach is deployed, to achieve the goal of a user driven conceptualization, development, and evaluation process. Within this process, the modeling of the user interface and interaction, based on defined use cases is performed by means of various methods. The proposed concept contains an interaction schema that represents elements of the human -- system interface, e.g. navigation, dimensions of use cases, interaction and information elements as well as element labels depicted in one view per use case. The interaction schema acts as a communication tool during the user interaction conceptualization phase in AAL projects. First outcomes of the conceptualization of the use case focused interaction diagram are the improvement of interdisciplinary communication, easy derivation of interface prototypes, and additional point of view for stakeholders in a project.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132614875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}