Birk Knut Astrup, Viktor Danielsen, Kristian Ludvig Grønvold, A. Hals, Andreas Klophmann, F. Sandnes
{"title":"Car steering in racing games: similar performance with joysticks and keyboards","authors":"Birk Knut Astrup, Viktor Danielsen, Kristian Ludvig Grønvold, A. Hals, Andreas Klophmann, F. Sandnes","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3321547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3321547","url":null,"abstract":"Many gamers use keyboards for playing computer games. Yet it is a commonly held belief that the control of the game is better with a more dedicated input device such as a joystick. This study set out to explore the effect of using keyboard and joystick for a car driving game. A car racing game experiment with n = 20 participants was set up. The results show that there is no difference between the two input devices. In fact, the spread in the measurements were larger for the joystick.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"27 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120872455","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: COACH workshop: Personalized coaching for the wellbeing of an ageing society workshop","authors":"Yordan Dimitrov","doi":"10.1145/3338000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3338000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117242567","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":"Data generation approaches for topic classification in multilingual spoken dialog systems","authors":"C. Montenegro, Roberto Santana, J. A. Lozano","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3316792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3316792","url":null,"abstract":"The conception of spoken-dialog systems (SDS) usually faces the problem of extending or adapting the system to multiple languages. This implies the creation of modules specifically for the new languages, which is a time consuming process. In this paper, we propose two methods to reduce the time needed to extend the SDS to other languages. Our methods are particularly oriented to the topic classification and semantic tagging tasks and we evaluate their effectiveness on topic classification for three languages: English, Spanish, French.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117002589","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}
S. Pandit, San Tran, Yiwen Gu, E. Saraee, Frederick Jansen, Saurabh Singh, Shirene Cao, Arezoo Sadeghi, Eugenia Shandelman, T. Ellis, Margrit Betke
{"title":"ExerciseCheck: a scalable platform for remote physical therapy deployed as a hybrid desktop and web application","authors":"S. Pandit, San Tran, Yiwen Gu, E. Saraee, Frederick Jansen, Saurabh Singh, Shirene Cao, Arezoo Sadeghi, Eugenia Shandelman, T. Ellis, Margrit Betke","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3321537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3321537","url":null,"abstract":"ExerciseCheck is a scalable, accessible platform designed and developed for the remote monitoring and evaluation of physical therapy. Physical rehabilitation is an important aspect of a patient's recovery from injury and often requires the patient to perform a prescribed set of exercises over medium- to long-term periods. In the absence of a physical therapist, using a low-cost, non-intrusive solution can serve as a complement to in-clinic sessions and provide patients with valuable insights into their exercises. We present the design, implementation, and deployment of ExerciseCheck, a modular system that incorporates machine learning techniques with contemporary web technologies to enable a user-friendly experience for patients and physical therapists. Initially a proof-of-concept, the latest version of ExerciseCheck is now deployed as a hybrid desktop and web application at a Boston University rehabilitation clinic and has been employed by physical therapists in their sessions with individuals with Parkinson's disease. We provide insights into the usability requirements, architecture design, and implementation challenges of the development and deployment of a production-quality platform for remote physical therapy in a clinical setting.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134036689","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: Wearable systems and monitoring devices","authors":"A. Meliones","doi":"10.1145/3337989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3337989","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133625149","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}
T. Mavropoulos, G. Meditskos, Eleni Kamateri, S. Symeonidis, Dimitris Tzimikas, Lefteris Papageorgiou, Christos Eleftheriadis, G. Adamopoulos, S. Vrochidis, Y. Kompatsiaris
{"title":"A smart dialogue-competent monitoring framework supporting people in rehabilitation","authors":"T. Mavropoulos, G. Meditskos, Eleni Kamateri, S. Symeonidis, Dimitris Tzimikas, Lefteris Papageorgiou, Christos Eleftheriadis, G. Adamopoulos, S. Vrochidis, Y. Kompatsiaris","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3322755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3322755","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present work in progress on the development of a smart monitoring framework to support people with motor disabilities and their caregivers in clinical and non-clinical rehabilitation and care environments. The innovation of the platforms lies in the combination of smart monitoring solutions, such as activity recognition and lifestyle tracking, with an intelligent virtual agent that aims to empower and motivate people in need through personalized feedback and responses, as well as to assist caregivers and clinicians to easily collect information about the patients. The proposed system exploits and combines state-of-the-art technologies in speech recognition and synthesis, knowledge representation and reasoning, dialogue management and sensor data analysis, infusing clinical knowledge and patient history. Aiming for a practical, acceptable solution, the proposed system takes into account aspects of integration, security and privacy.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134360884","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: AGENT workshop: Multimodal signal sensing and analysis for assistive environments for improving quality-of-life workshop","authors":"K. Dimitropoulos","doi":"10.1145/3337998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3337998","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116374467","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":"Data mining and knowledge discovery from physiological sensors","authors":"N. Costadopoulos, M. Islam, D. Tien","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3322771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3322771","url":null,"abstract":"We present in this paper our method for discovering logic rules from physiological data by applying a fusion of preprocessing and data mining using decision trees. We have focused on four sensors representative of wearable technology capabilities namely; plethysmography, galvanic skin response, respiration, and body temperature, sourced from a highly cited dataset in Affective Computing. The method involved generating a number of datasets from the physiological data and subsequently performing classification using the C4.5 decision tree algorithm with a focus on knowledge discovery. The findings of this research demonstrate that preprocessing data into three classes with extreme boundaries and a neutral class, as well as classifying the two classes without the neutral class can produce high-quality rules. The discovered knowledge in the form of the top 4 rules was mapped on the valence and arousal emotional model. Finally, these rules are interpreted with the aid of box and whisker plots in the context of the underlying physiological processes.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121681527","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}
D. Zikos, N. Delellis, S. Zimeras, N. Ragina, O. Afolayan-Oloye
{"title":"Comorbidity constructs for patients with congestive heart failure and their effect on hospital outcomes of care","authors":"D. Zikos, N. Delellis, S. Zimeras, N. Ragina, O. Afolayan-Oloye","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3322745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3322745","url":null,"abstract":"We present a study of the cumulative effect of comorbidities on hospital length of stay (LOS), and hospital mortality, for patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF). This condition can be life-threatening, while a burdened disease profile significantly increases the risk for negative outcomes. Our hypothesis is that coexisting conditions often co-interact, in various ways, and these interactions can have a variable effect on outcomes; clinical decision makers should, therefore, be able to recognize these joint effects. In order to study the CHF comorbidities, we used medical claims data from CMS. Firstly, we conducted cluster analysis to find the common hospital comorbidities for CHF admissions. We then extracted the most frequent cluster: {metabolism disorders, anemia, hypertension with complications, coronary atherosclerosis, chronic kidney disease} and calculated conditional probabilities in a modular manner for all combinations within this cluster. We furthermore estimated the cumulative effect of these comorbidity combinations on the two outcomes under study in a step by step, modular manner. Results were visualized with directed acyclic graphs.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124008345","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":"Affective effects of gamification: using biosignals to measure the effects on working and learning users","authors":"Oliver Korn, A. Rees","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3316783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3316783","url":null,"abstract":"What emotional effects does gamification have on users who work or learn with repetitive tasks? In this work, we use biosignals to analyze these affective effects of gamification. After a brief discussion of related work, we describe the implementation of an assistive system augmenting work by projecting elements for guidance and gamification. We also show how this system can be extended to analyse users' emotions. In a user study, we analyse both biosignals (facial expressions and electrodermal activity), and regular performance measures (error rate and task completion time). For the performance measures, the results confirm known effects like increased speed and slightly increased error rate. In addition, the analysis of the biosignals provides strong evidence for two major affective effects: the gamification of work and learning tasks incites highly significantly more positive emotions and increases emotionality altogether. The results add to the design of assistive systems, which are aware of the physical as well as the affective context.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116221526","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}