{"title":"A framework for the development of an assessment tool for children with disabilities","authors":"Philip Makedon, Lynette K. Watts, D. Zikos","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674449","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a framework for the development of a gaming environment for the assessment of children with a spectrum of disabilities (GE-CDA tool). A typical case example is that of Cerebral Palsy (CP). We follow an evidence-based approach to identify the required domains which need to be addressed in the GE-CDA tool. Three different axes are considered, namely the domain of disability (cognitive, physical, psychological and behavioral), the function to be assessed for those domains (i.e. hand-eye coordination, working memory capacity) and the assessment method for each one of the functions. We plan to use Minecraft to develop the assessment tool, since it supports activity based mini-games (fishing, archery, maze, puzzles, etc.) and also allows for modifications, serving as an ideal platform for our GE-CDA tool.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"27 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":"130870583","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":"Creating custom fitted point of goggles through facial metrics","authors":"C. Lutterodt, Scott Phan, F. Makedon","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674448","url":null,"abstract":"This paper displays the possible uses of facial metrics to create custom fitted POG goggles. This custom device will improve usage and enhance conformability for the end user.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"1 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":"121805006","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":"Quantitative evaluation of the kinect skeleton tracker for physical rehabilitation exercises","authors":"Shawn N. Gieser, V. Metsis, F. Makedon","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674429","url":null,"abstract":"Using video game technology in physical rehabilitation has shown many positive results in the past few years. The release of the Microsoft Kinect has presented many new opportunities for development in physical rehabilitation technologies. However, there have been questions about the Kinect's accuracy in actual experimentation. In this paper, we compare skeleton data obtained by a Kinect to that obtained by a VICON system in order to determine the accuracy of the Kinect while a tracked subject is moving their arm around. This is the first steps towards a much larger physical rehabilitation system.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"215 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":"122282429","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":"Human centered computing for the development of assistive environments: the STHENOS project","authors":"Ilias Maglogiannis","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674453","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the research conducted within the framework of the STHENOS project (www.sthenos.gr), which aims at the development of methodologies and systems for assistive environments. The research within the project aims at the development of methodologies and tools to compose pervasive human-centered systems, which will be able to understand the human state (identity, emotions and behavior) in assistive environments using audiovisual and biological signals. The proposed systems and applications are capable of offering services such as support for the aged/disabled/chronic patients, detection of critical situations from audiovisual content, biosignal and neurophysiology analysis for the detection of pathology (e.g. Alzheimer's disease), as well as for treatment follow-up. The paper includes an overview of the three perspectives of human centered computing studied in the STHENOS project, namely: audiovisual activity and status recognition, affective computing and neurophysiological analysis.","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":"116189447","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}
Evangelia Spiridonou, Grigoris Matralis, Panagiotis Kartsidis, L. Raducan, Miltiadis Yfantis, A. Astaras
{"title":"Experimental testing of a prototype wireless tele-alerting system for monitoring sleeping infants (smart cot MAIA)","authors":"Evangelia Spiridonou, Grigoris Matralis, Panagiotis Kartsidis, L. Raducan, Miltiadis Yfantis, A. Astaras","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674441","url":null,"abstract":"Real time in situ medical monitoring has become increasingly common in the past few decades, driven by the development of a wide variety of affordable sensors and power autonomous, energy efficient microcontroller platforms. Portable and unobtrusive multi-sensor data acquisition is considered routine, including real-time data processing and alerting based on measurements within or around the human body. Project MAIA has developed an intelligent baby cot system capable of monitoring sleeping infants and remotely notifying their carers under pre-programmed circumstances. It aims to add a layer of protection for infants during the first 6 months of their life, primarily targeting medical emergencies such as choking, suffocation and the elusive Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The MAIA system also aims to contribute to current paediatric medical knowledge by providing rare in situ research data.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"11 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":"116774609","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":"Session details: Workshop on distributed sensor systems for assistive environments (Di-Sensa)","authors":"","doi":"10.1145/3246801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3246801","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"1 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":"130182775","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}
I. Koromila, Z. Nivolianitou, Theodoros Giannakopoulos
{"title":"Bayesian network to predict environmental risk of a possible ship accident","authors":"I. Koromila, Z. Nivolianitou, Theodoros Giannakopoulos","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674463","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of the AMINESS project is to promote shipping safety in the Aegean Sea though a web portal offering different levels of access to relevant stakeholders such as ship owners, policy makers, the scientific community and the general public. The portal will have three principle uses. The first is to suggest both vessel and environmentally optimal safe route planning for ships. The second is to produce alerts for ships in real time with respect to potential hazards associated to other ships, as a function of its location and planned route, its cargo and the meteorological/sea conditions. Finally, the third is to support policy recommendations, through analysis of historical data in short and long term periods that correlate safety with ship trajectories. To that end, the risk of a possible accident occurrence in the Aegean Sea is being calculated using Bayesian networks (BN). Two types of accident scenarios (collision and grounding) have been studied. A simplified Bayesian model has been developed to predict the risk of an accident given the main characteristics of the vessel, namely the ship type, size, age and flag, which are inputted to the present model. The appropriate input data has been provided by the AIS (Automatic Identification System) sign us with. Training of the developed Bayesian network was performed using the data of both the historical accident database of Marine Rescue Coordination Center and the AIS and some use cases in the area of Aegean Sea is presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"48 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":"124000407","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}
Timothy E. Roden, Rob LeGrand, R. Fernandez, Jacqueline Brown, J. Deaton, Johnny Ross
{"title":"Development of a smart insole tracking system for physical therapy and athletics","authors":"Timothy E. Roden, Rob LeGrand, R. Fernandez, Jacqueline Brown, J. Deaton, Johnny Ross","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674415","url":null,"abstract":"Development of a smart insole tracking system is described. Originally designed for healthcare applications, the system has found applications in both physical therapy and athletic training. The entire system is distributed between insole hardware, mobile device applications that interface with the insoles and a central Internet server for data warehousing and analysis. We describe the development of these components so far including a discussion of custom algorithm development required for the system. The athletic version has been commercialized while the more complex healthcare version is still under development.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"48 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":"123352056","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":"Improving healthcare cost transparency through mobile application development","authors":"David Allen, O. Daescu","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674400","url":null,"abstract":"Managing the rising costs of healthcare is of critical importance to both the public and private sectors. Those who need healthcare face a daunting challenge in determining the projected price of care as there is currently a lack of transparency with respect to obtaining the price of procedures from healthcare providers such as hospitals and labs. The price of a given medical procedure can vary by thousands of dollars depending on where it is performed, with patients often unable to compare prices and select the best one. Patients are often at a disadvantage when it comes to negotiating healthcare costs as the care may be of life or death importance to the patient. Higher healthcare costs put a greater financial burden on patients, insurers and employers. In order to increase healthcare price transparency and support patients in the search for quality healthcare, we have developed a mobile device application that compares the price of procedures at local hospitals based on publically available price data.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"21 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":"132005118","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":"Target reverse crossing: a selection method for camera-based mouse-replacement systems","authors":"Wenxin Feng, Ming Chen, Margrit Betke","doi":"10.1145/2674396.2674443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2674396.2674443","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a selection method, \"target reverse crossing,\" for use with camera-based mouse-replacement for people with motion impairments. We assessed the method by comparing it to the selection mechanism \"dwell-time clicking,\" which is widely used by camera-based mouse-replacement systems. Our results show that target reverse crossing is more efficient than dwell-time clicking, while its one-time success accuracy is lower. We found that target directions have effects on the accuracy of reverse crossing. We also show that increasing the target size improves the performance of reverse crossing significantly, which provides future interface design implications for this selection method.","PeriodicalId":192421,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"1 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":"129122063","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}