Oliver Korn, Markus Funk, Stephan Abele, Thomas Hörz, A. Schmidt
{"title":"Context-aware assistive systems at the workplace: analyzing the effects of projection and gamification","authors":"Oliver Korn, Markus Funk, Stephan Abele, Thomas Hörz, A. Schmidt","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674406","url":null,"abstract":"Context-aware assistive systems (CAAS) have become ubiquitous in cars or smartphones but not in industrial work contexts: while there are systems controlling work results, context-specific assistance during the processes is hardly offered. As a result production workers still have to rely on their skills and expertise. While un-impaired workers may cope well with this situation, elderly or impaired persons in production environments need context-sensitive assistance. The contribution of the research presented here is three-fold: (1) We provide a framework for context-aware assistive systems in production environments. These systems are based on motion recognition and use projection and elements from game design (gamification) to augment work. (2) Based on this framework we describe a prototype with respect to both the physical and the software implementation. (3) We present the results of a study with impaired workers and quantifying the effects of the augmentations on work speed and quality.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115081771","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":"Computer games to decrease pain and improve mood and movement","authors":"M. Simmonds, D. Zikos","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674435","url":null,"abstract":"Pain is a pervasive problem that can compromise mood and movement leading to depression and disability. Computer games can enhance self-esteem, mood, and movement in healthy individuals. To what extent such games can improve mood and movement and decrease pain in individuals with chronic pain is not known. This study compared the effects of two computer games on pain, mood and movement in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) compared to a pain free cohort. Twenty-nine people with (FM) and 19 healthy controls were randomized to play a game to enhance mood or a game with no emotional salience. Standardized measures of clinical pain, thermal pain thresholds, self-efficacy, mood, self-esteem and physical performance were obtained before and after game play. Both games improved pain threshold, mood and physical performance (p≤.019). There was no differential effect of games suggesting that for these subjects and after one game play, attention to the game rather than the game itself is the likely explanation.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"8 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120822618","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 markerless tiling method for tracking daily lung tumor motion on imperfectly matched images","authors":"T. Rozario, S. Bereg, W. Mao","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674438","url":null,"abstract":"In order to locate lung tumors on projection images without internal markers, digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) is created and compared with projection images. Since lung tumors always move and their locations change on projection images while they are static on DRRs, a special DRR (background DRR) is generated based on modified anatomy from which lung tumors are removed. In addition, global discrepancies exist between DRRs and projections due to their different image orientations, scattering, and noises. This adversely affects comparison accuracy. A simple but efficient comparison algorithm is reported to match imperfectly matched projection images and DRRs.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121355249","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":"Indoor quadrotor state estimation using visual markers","authors":"G. Atmeh, I. Ranatunga, D. Popa, K. Subbarao","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674458","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the problem of estimating the full state-vector (position/orientation) of an AR.Drone quadrotor using measurements from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and an on-board camera taking images of predefined markers. The platform used is an inexpensive commercial quadrotor. The open-source Robot Operating System (ROS) is used to manage communication with the quadrotor. To estimate the AR.Drone states, an extended Kalman filter is used. The state estimates are propagated using a nonlinear dynamic model of the AR.Drone available in the literature. The estimation error covariance is propagated through the continuous-time Riccati equation using the model Jacobian. The estimated states are updated based on measurements of angular velocity from the IMU along with position and orientation from the camera. Convincing experimental results are presented. The work introduced here allows for an overall inexpensive setup for estimating the states of a quadrotor for flight in GPS denied environments using visual markers.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124626255","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 comparative study on 3-D stereo reconstruction from endoscopic images","authors":"Mostafa Parchami, G. Mariottini","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674425","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in robotic surgery and growing use of robots in minimal access surgery (MAS), has increased the need of adapting computer-vision algorithms for surgical-vision applications. While methods for 3-D reconstruction are extensively investigated on man-made environments, the surgical-vision lacks such studies on 3-D reconstruction methods and their pros and cons on endoscopic images. In this paper we extensively compared several dense stereo reconstruction methods on a mock-up model using videos acquired from the daVinci endoscope. Also, the advantages and disadvantages of each method for different stages of stereo reconstruction are mentioned and supported by exhaustive experiments on endoscopic images.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125178747","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}
Bilgin Kosucu, Netzahualcóyotl Hernández, Temitayo A. Olugbade
{"title":"Opportunistic sensing and detection of mild cognitive impairment","authors":"Bilgin Kosucu, Netzahualcóyotl Hernández, Temitayo A. Olugbade","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674424","url":null,"abstract":"Dementia is a growing healthcare problem, and it has become necessary to find a way to reduce the prevalence of this disease. Mild cognitive impairment is a risk factor for dementia, and being able to detect the onset of mild cognitive impairment gives healthcare professionals the chance to reduce the effect of dementia on the society. In this paper, we propose a system that seeks to detect mild cognitive impairment in otherwise healthy persons. We are particularly interested in being able to gather data for monitoring without interfering with the subject's daily living.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126363177","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}
K. Bouchard, Jean-Sébastien Bilodeau, Dany Fortin-Simard, S. Gaboury, B. Bouchard, A. Bouzouane
{"title":"Human activity recognition in smart homes based on passive RFID localization","authors":"K. Bouchard, Jean-Sébastien Bilodeau, Dany Fortin-Simard, S. Gaboury, B. Bouchard, A. Bouzouane","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674403","url":null,"abstract":"Modern societies are facing an important ageing of their population leading to arising economical and sociological challenges such as the pressure on health support services for semi-autonomous persons. Smart home technology is considered by many researchers as a promising potential solution to help supporting the needs of elders. It aims to provide cognitive assistance by taking decisions, such as giving hints, suggestions and reminders, with different kinds of effectors (light, sound, screen, etc.) to a resident suffering from cognitive deficits in order to foster their autonomy. To implement such technology, the first challenge we need to overcome is the recognition of the ongoing inhabitant activity of daily living (ADL). Moreover, to assist him correctly, we also need to be able to detect the cognitive errors he performs. Therefore, we present in this paper a new affordable activity recognition system, based on passive RFID technology, able to detect errors related to cognitive impairment in morning routines. The entire system relies on an innovative model of elliptical trilateration with several filters, and on an ingenious representation of activities with spatial zones. This system has been implemented and deployed in a real smart home prototype. We also present the promising results of a first experiment conducted on this new activity recognition system with real cases scenarios about morning routines.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130805426","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":"Towards a low cost open architecture wearable sensor network for health care applications","authors":"P. Papazoglou, T. Laskari, G. Fourlas","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674404","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless sensor networks present a growing interest in health care applications since they can replace wired devices for detecting signals of physiological origin and continuously monitoring health parameters, offering a reliable and inexpensive solution. In this paper a low cost open architecture wearable sensor network for health care applications is presented. Through this study, an experimental wireless sensor network (WSN) architecture has been built from scratch in order to investigate and present the development procedure and the corresponding capabilities and limitations of such a system. Moreover, technological aspects regarding implementation are also presented.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128026743","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}
Charis Styliadis, E. Konstantinidis, Antonis Billis, P. Bamidis
{"title":"Employing affection in elderly healthcare serious games interventions","authors":"Charis Styliadis, E. Konstantinidis, Antonis Billis, P. Bamidis","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674456","url":null,"abstract":"Serious games for elderly healthcare provide a promising and novel way to promote the well-being of senior citizens. The gaming environment, originally designed for a younger target population, benefits from the increasing power of personal computers, mobiles devices (phones, tablets) and SmartTVs, as well as the recent emergence of motion capture technology developed for videogame consoles via worn physical sensors and controller free sensors. Measuring self-efficacy by elderly individuals on such gaming environments has characterized them in terms of their effectiveness to motivate an audience reluctant to undertake more conventional forms of activities. However, the relationship between the features making the game challenging and the senior user's behaviour in becoming motivated so as to interact with the system independently and effectively is still elusive. For instance, failure in understanding the game's instructions or adapting to the speed and complexity may be thought of as barriers that affect the seniors' satisfactory interaction within the gaming environment. A step towards this direction would require using emotions in the midst of the gaming environment so as to allow for the embodiment of real-time mental (cognitive and emotional), and physical data. The main goal is to focus on assessing the features that encourage the elderly individuals to interact with the gaming environment on a daily basis. We propose to further enhance the gaming environment through the use of personal biosensors (i.e. wireless EEG) and cameras (i.e. fisheye camera) so as to collect the user's mental and physical changes over time and fuse them in a decision support system. This information will eventually provide feedback on the gaming experience so as to modify it according to the user's affective state.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131968784","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":"Wireless infrastructure setup strategies for healthcare","authors":"Nikunj Agarwal, M. Sebastian","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674401","url":null,"abstract":"The investments in wireless entities should be planned and implemented in such a way that they deliver the expected care to the patients. There should be maximum utilization of the infrastructure to meet the patient needs. In this paper we have proposed a methodology to measure the overall utility of the wireless capabilities based on the connectivity, applications, security practices, and the locations. The novelty of the paper is a department wise analysis of the different wireless entities to gauge the importance of each of them. The importance of different wireless entities will help streamline the investments.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132386547","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}