{"title":"Lessons Learnt from the analysis of a bike sharing system","authors":"Dimitrios Tomaras, Ioannis Boutsis, V. Kalogeraki","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3076206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3076206","url":null,"abstract":"Bike-sharing systems have been deployed in many major cities around the world today. Bike sharing systems provide great advantages as a mean of urban public transportation facilitating a green solution for daily commuters and tourists. Users tend to use more often this type of transportation for their daily needs. The key to success for such systems is the efficient distribution of bikes among the bike stations in order to satisfy high user demands. Existing schemes in the literature focus either on predicting the bike station demand and modeling user mobility mainly focusing on making cycling more accessible to people, or on minimizing the costly and time-consuming movement of bikes among the stations while the system is in use. In this work our objective is to gain insights into the usage of bike sharing systems and in particular the pick-up and drop-off operations. Our goal is to get a better understanding of the bike mobility patterns and identify the key factors that lead to imbalances in the distribution of the bikes at the stations, towards creating effective and sustainable bike sharing systems.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"461 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":"116183491","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":"IoT Interface for Healthcare applications","authors":"Konstantinos Michalakis, G. Caridakis","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3064970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3064970","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of the Internet of Things involves new services in healthcare while existing systems will have to interact with the IoT framework in order to integrate in the established ecosystem and use its infrastructure and services. It will be important to design appropriate interfaces for those systems that will take into consideration the unique characteristics of healthcare. We propose an interface design that allows users to efficiently interact with smart objects of a healthcare platform. The notion of a wearable cloud is introduced which connects all sensors of a Body Area Network into a unified interface, managed by a single device, while context aware computing methods personalize the system behavior and natural interaction methods are integrated.","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":"130964347","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}
Michalis Papakostas, Theodoros Giannakopoulos, V. Karkaletsis
{"title":"A Fitness Monitoring System based on Fusion of Visual and Sensorial Information","authors":"Michalis Papakostas, Theodoros Giannakopoulos, V. Karkaletsis","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3076196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3076196","url":null,"abstract":"We present a method that recognizes exercising activities performed by a single human in the context of a real home environment. Towards this end, we combine sensorial information stemming from a smartphone accelerometer, with visual information from a simple web camera. Low-level features inspired from the audio analysis domain are used to represent the accelerometer data, while simple frame-wise features are used in the visual channel. Extensive experiments prove that the fusion approach achieves 95% of overall performance when user calibration is adopted, which is a 4% performance boosting compared to the best individual modality which is the accelerometer data.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"2674 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":"122095207","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":"Sharable Personal Automations for Ambient Assisted Living","authors":"Yannis Valsamakis, Anthony Savidis","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3056560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3056560","url":null,"abstract":"The population of elderly people and disabled has exponentially increased thanks to advances of medicine which allow people to live longer and healthier than the previous generations. In this context, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications which promotes independent living is more necessary than ever. Also, the Internet of Things (IoT) proliferates as the dominant technological paradigm for the open deployment of networked smart objects in the environment, including physical things, smart devices and entire applications. In our work, a primary objective was the delivery of an AAL framework on the top of smart objects which uses the full range of IoT technologies. Very early, it became evident that the demand of personalized applications in the context of AAL is very intense. This is mainly due to the highly individualized and fluid nature of the required applications. Along these lines, we focus in providing an end-user programming environment to empower carers, possibly the elderly and family themselves, with the necessary tools to easily and quickly craft, test, modify and deploy smart object applications they would like to have in their everyday life. In this paper, we support personalized automations using smart objects for outdoor daily activities, outside the elderly's protected home environment. We initially outline possible useful mobility scenarios. Then, we elaborate on the visual tools we are developing, followed by a brief case study using them.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"71 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":"125270458","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":"TOF Tactile Stamps: Drawing Object Silhouettes through Depth Segmentation by Blind People","authors":"Jens Bornschein, Lukas Förster, Denise Bornschein","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3064946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3064946","url":null,"abstract":"We present a workstation utilizing a simple depth segmentation approach to let visually impaired users transform real-world objects into their two-dimensional silhouette shape. Therefore, we use a Kinect TOF system for detection and a novel two-dimensional dynamic tactile pin-matrix display for presenting the captured result. The calibration, segmentation as well as some experimental findings about the used TOF system are explained. Based on the limitations of the TOF system, the segmentation is limited to objects being at least 29mm high. Furthermore, the segmented shapes are less detailed, ragged and sometimes optical deformed. A brief evaluation with three blind users showed that they would accept little such deformations. However, they would like to use such a system for drawing complex objects or share an object's impression with other users in a very fast and enjoyable way.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"42 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":"125289934","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":"Classification of Emotional Arousal During Multimedia Exposure","authors":"A. Anderson, Thomas Hsiao, V. Metsis","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3064956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3064956","url":null,"abstract":"In the study of emotion recognition, relatively few efforts have been made to compare classification results across different emotion induction methods. In this study, we attempt to classify emotional arousal using physiological signals collected across three stimulus types -- music, videos, and games. Subjects were exposed to relaxing and exciting music and videos and then asked to play Tetris and Minesweeper. Data from GSR, ECG, EOG, EEG, and PPG signals were analyzed using machine learning algorithms. We were able to successfully detect emotion arousal over a set of contiguous multimedia activities. Furthermore, we found that the patterns of physiological response to each multimedia stimuli are varying enough, that we can guess the stimulus type just by looking at the biosignals.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"55 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":"121575599","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":"Co-Designing a Recommender System for the Elderly","authors":"Madita Herpich, T. Rist, E. André","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3064948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3064948","url":null,"abstract":"To promote a healthy life-style and to increase well-being of elderly people, we have extended a digital picture frame - the CARE system - that interleaves a picture display mode with a recommender mode. In recommender mode, CARE encourages its users to engage in physical and mental training activities. The success of such a system essentially depends on the extent to which given recommendations are followed. The current paper investigates in how far rewarding schemes as known from computer games could be deployed in order to increase user appreciation of the CARE system. To this end, we prepared and ran a co-design workshop with a peer-group of senior citizens. Finally, we draw conclusions that will guide our work towards a gamified version of CARE.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"40 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":"115881074","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}
Dario Ortega Anderez, Kofi Appiah, Ahmad Lotfi, C. Langensiepen
{"title":"A Hierarchical Approach towards Activity Recognition","authors":"Dario Ortega Anderez, Kofi Appiah, Ahmad Lotfi, C. Langensiepen","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3076194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3076194","url":null,"abstract":"Activity recognition with the use of inertial sensors, namely accelerometers and gyroscopes, has gained increasing attention during the last decades. In this work, we propose a novel way of tackling activity classification by developing a multi-step hierarchical classification algorithm. While previous research has looked at the problem as a whole, by adopting one of the two major approaches for activity recognition -- the sliding window approach and primitive-based approach, our system will divide the classification problem into smaller classification problems following a hierarchical approach for improve on accuracy and computational cost. This work aims at detecting self-neglect behaviour in a living environment. As such, the activities chosen to be classified consist of quotidian daily living activities such as walking, brushing teeth, washing hands, typing at the computer, sitting, stand and picking up something from the floor. The experimental work has shown promising results which support the use of the multi-step hierarchical approach proposed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"46 3 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":"131359735","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 Prototype for Visual Content Development and Realtime Motion Tracking","authors":"Karina Abramova, A. Corradini, Jesper Nordentoft","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3076209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3076209","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores an application of Kalman filters for real-time dance visualization within the Unity3d framework. We created a first prototype of a content development system for real-time visualization of dance performances based on the captured data. Experiments performed with camera-based motion sensors indicate that our prototype can be used for generating real-time visuals of dance performances and any other movements in contexts such as medical rehabilitation.","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":"122281153","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":"Issues in the Development of AAL Systems: What experts think","authors":"Jean D. Hallewell Haslwanter, G. Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3056554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3056554","url":null,"abstract":"Although the development of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies is being financed to support older people, there are not many systems on the market to date. Other studies have tried to understand this by looking at user acceptance issues. However, by looking only at the user acceptance, we may miss important aspects to explain why systems went wrong in the first place. To understand this, we consulted with people directly involved in the development of AAL. In this study, input was gained from experts through workshops and an interactive poster. We present the common issues reported across various AAL development projects that experts thought were most important to success or failure of projects. We also describe some ideas from people with experience in AAL for solving some of these problems.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"119 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":"132553962","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}