{"title":"Using Indoor Location to Assess the State of Dementia Patients: Results and Experience Report from a Long Term, Real World Study","authors":"Agnes Grünerbl, G. Bahle, P. Lukowicz, F. Hanser","doi":"10.1109/IE.2011.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.22","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a year-long experiment dedicated to the development, deployment and evaluation of a system for coarse assessment of the state of dementia patients in a real world nursing home. The system is based on the analysis of users' motion patterns between broadly defined, semantically meaningful areas of the living space. On a data set recorded from six inhabitants in different stages of dementia during a year (a total of about 900 individual daily traces organized in groups of 14 days) a recognition accuracy of 92% is demonstrated for a two state problem (positive, negative)with 3 subjects having perfect (100%) recognition. For the 3 state problem (positive, normal, negative) we get 80% with one case of perfect recognition. We present an elaborate evaluation of the methods' performance and describe relevant practical issues involved in the design and deployment in the nursing home.","PeriodicalId":207140,"journal":{"name":"2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"05 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127250699","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}
Robert Neßelrath, J. Haupert, J. Frey, Boris Brandherm
{"title":"Supporting Persons with Special Needs in their Daily Life in a Smart Home","authors":"Robert Neßelrath, J. Haupert, J. Frey, Boris Brandherm","doi":"10.1109/IE.2011.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.75","url":null,"abstract":"We aim to enhance the quality of life of elderly and people with mild cognitive disabilities through technology. This includes increasing their autonomy, enhancing their security, and preventing isolation by staying socially connected. One way to do so is enabling them a life in their familiar surroundings as long as possible. We present the successful integration of several systems comprising the intelligent medicament blister and the task-based calendar. The intelligent medicament blister helps to increase a patient's compliance and the task-based calendar assists people with cognitive disabilities in their activities of daily living like cooking tea. Furthermore, we present the technical infrastructure such as the universal control hub or the digital product memory. Our long term vision is to promote an accessible intelligent environment based on open standards and architectures and innovative solutions where everyone can continue to play a role in society.","PeriodicalId":207140,"journal":{"name":"2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"7 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116861131","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 Shared Space Texting Energy Use","authors":"Karthikeya S. Acharya, J. Mikkonen","doi":"10.1109/IE.2011.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.49","url":null,"abstract":"Consumption of shared resources in public locations can be understood as being socially invisible. In order to focus attention to the energy consumption in such environments, a design intervention was carried out over a two-week period to deliver electricity usage as collective knowledge. Ambient office lighting was selected as a platform, and the system implemented informed the users of the environment the changes in the resource consumption that the users had control over. The users of the office space were asked to keep track of their experiences and were interviewed at the end of the test period. The decrease in energy consumption was significant, and the intervention managed to increase social visibility of shared energy use. Such an approach of integrating collective resource use and communication suggests further exploration.","PeriodicalId":207140,"journal":{"name":"2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114672104","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":"Formal Verification of Device State Chart Models","authors":"Fulvio Corno, M. Sanaullah","doi":"10.1109/IE.2011.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.36","url":null,"abstract":"Design and development of increasingly complex intelligent environments require rich design flows that include strong validation and verification methodologies. Formal verification techniques are often advocated, and they require formally described models of the smart home devices, their interconnections, and their controlling algorithms. Complete verification can only be achieved if all used models are verified, including individual device models. This paper proposes an approach to formally verify the correctness of device models described as UML State Charts, by checking their consistency with respect to the properties, declared in an Ontology, for the categories to which each device belongs. The paper describes the verification methodology and presents some first verification results.","PeriodicalId":207140,"journal":{"name":"2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127321681","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":"Pervasive Computing in Time and Space: The Culture and Context of 'Place' Integration","authors":"Sally A. Applin, Michael D. Fischer","doi":"10.1109/IE.2011.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.65","url":null,"abstract":"We consider some possible broad changes that may impact society as a whole as a result of widespread integration of full-spectrum deployed pervasive computing technologies. Our approach considers design challenges for successfully developing and integrating pervasive technologies into culture and society. This is particularly challenging, since pervasive technologies as services are most successful when transparent, invisible, overlooked, unacknowledged and seemingly forgotten by the very groups that embrace their usage and development. We suggest a heuristic for understanding pervasive technology from an anthropological/social perspective, along with a reminder that humans create, shape and use the technologies that affect them. In particular, we look at the impact on social relations in a poly-social world where people must develop means to blend their own realities with those of of others. In conclusion, we remind those developing these technologies, that although we will eventually become wedded and intertwined as cyborgs within this new environment, it may have a positive outcome, creating new social group models for human interaction.","PeriodicalId":207140,"journal":{"name":"2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125604267","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":"Hybrid Museum Environments","authors":"Dimitris Psychogyios","doi":"10.1109/IE.2011.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.46","url":null,"abstract":"Adaptability and flexibility seems to be the key to the success of the modern Museum. The continuous design, construction and use constitute the design model of the new museum. The potentiality of design, with emphasis on multi-disciplinarity and interaction, as well as the potentiality of construction, emphasizing the change over time and participation in networks, establish the new museum example. This paper examines ideological as well as technological platforms, to reach a common framework of physical and digital space and produce an open dictionary of concepts and tools.","PeriodicalId":207140,"journal":{"name":"2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115656803","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":"Accelerometer Placement for Posture Recognition and Fall Detection","authors":"H. Gjoreski, M. Luštrek, M. Gams","doi":"10.1109/IE.2011.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.11","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an approach to fall detection with accelerometers that exploits posture recognition to identify postures that may be the result of a fall. Posture recognition as a standalone task was also studied. Nine placements of up to four sensors were considered: on the waist, chest, thigh and ankle. The results are compared to the results of a system using ultra wide band location sensors on a scenario consisting of events difficult to recognize as falls or non-falls. Three accelerometers proved sufficient to correctly recognize all the events except one(a slow fall). The location-based system was comparable to two accelerometers, except that it was able to recognize the slow fall because it resulted in lying outside the bed, whose location was known to the system. One accelerometer was able to recognize only the most clear-cut fall. Two accelerometers achieved over 90% accuracy of posture recognition, which was better than the location-based system. Chest and waist accelerometers proved best at both tasks, with the chest accelerometer having a slight advantage in posture recognition.","PeriodicalId":207140,"journal":{"name":"2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116095032","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":"Adapting Workflows to Intelligent Environments","authors":"M. Hartmann, Marcus Ständer, V. Uren","doi":"10.1109/IE.2011.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.37","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent environments aim at supporting the user in executing her everyday tasks, e.g. by guiding her through a maintenance or cooking procedure. This requires a machine processable representation of the tasks for which workflows have proven an efficient means. The increasing number of available sensors in intelligent environments can facilitate the execution of workflows. The sensors can help to recognize when a user has finished a step in the workflow and thus to automatically proceed to the next step. This can heavily reduce the amount of required user interaction. However, manually specifying the conditions for triggering the next step in a workflow is very cumbersome and almost impossible for environments which are not known at design time. In this paper, we present a novel approach for learning and adapting these conditions from observation. We show that the learned conditions can even outperform the quality as conditions manually specified by workflow experts. Thus, the presented approach is very well suited for automatically adapting workflows in intelligent environments and can in that way increase the efficiency of the workflow execution.","PeriodicalId":207140,"journal":{"name":"2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124948930","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":"Conflict Resolution in Intelligent Environments Using Stakeholder Search","authors":"Alan Fedoruk","doi":"10.1109/IE.2011.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.59","url":null,"abstract":"Stakeholder search is a multi-agent system framework for cooperative/competitive problem solving by agents with local and global (system wide) goals. In an intelligent environment, a stakeholder search instance can be used to provide decision making (conflict resolution), while still providing all the benefits that a multi-agent system brings to the intelligent environment. Stakeholder search can be implemented and run in situations ranging from direct conflict to complete cooperation. In addition, stakeholder search is shown to provide a \"leveling of the playing field.\" That is, when agents or devices in the system have differing levels of resources and abilities, stakeholder search can help mitigate those imbalances, and ensure that all devices have a \"fair\" degree of influence over the outcome of any conflict or cooperative problem. As a result, the total environment benefits, and not just one aspect of the environment.","PeriodicalId":207140,"journal":{"name":"2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126148925","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":"Implications of Theories of Communication and Spatial Behavior for the Design of Interactive Environments","authors":"Charalampos Rizopoulos, Dimitris Charitos","doi":"10.1109/IE.2011.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.57","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines some implications for the design and evaluation of interactive environments. Certain key points derived from theories of communication and environmental psychology are presented in an attempt to highlight the inherent compatibility, relevance, and usefulness of these approaches for the design and evaluation of spatial interactive systems.","PeriodicalId":207140,"journal":{"name":"2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125047001","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}