{"title":"Session details: DAEM workshop: Workshop on designing assistive environments for manufacturing","authors":"S. Büttner, Mario Heinz","doi":"10.1145/3337994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3337994","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"46 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":"116289986","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":"Deep human activity recognition using wearable sensors","authors":"I. A. Lawal, Sophia Bano","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3321538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3321538","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the problem of classifying motion signals acquired via wearable sensors for the recognition of human activity. Automatic and accurate classification of motion signals is important in facilitating the development of an effective automated health monitoring system for the elderlies. Thus, we gathered hip motion signals from two different waist mounted sensors and for each individual sensor, we converted the motion signal into spectral image sequence. We use these images as inputs to independently train two Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), one for each of the generated image sequences from the two sensors. The outputs of the trained CNNs are then fused together to predict the final class of the human activity. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method using the cross-subjects testing approach. Our method achieves recognition accuracy (F1 score) of 0.87 on a publicly available real-world human activity dataset. This performance is superior to that reported by another state-of-the-art method on the same dataset.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"41 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":"123483138","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. Theodoridis, V. Solachidis, K. Dimitropoulos, L. Gymnopoulos, P. Daras
{"title":"A survey on AI nutrition recommender systems","authors":"T. Theodoridis, V. Solachidis, K. Dimitropoulos, L. Gymnopoulos, P. Daras","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3322760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3322760","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this work is to provide an overview of existing approaches regarding AI nutrition recommender systems. A breakdown of such systems into task-specific components is presented, as well as methodologies concerned with each individual component. The components of an idealized AI nutrition recommender system are presented and compared to state-of-the-art approaches in the corresponding area of research. Finally identified issues in some of these areas are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"29 6 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":"126131289","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}
Yordan Dimitrov, Zlatka Gospodinova, Richard Wheeler, M. Znidarsic, B. Ženko, V. Veleva, Nadejda Miteva
{"title":"Social activity modelling and multimodal coaching for active aging","authors":"Yordan Dimitrov, Zlatka Gospodinova, Richard Wheeler, M. Znidarsic, B. Ženko, V. Veleva, Nadejda Miteva","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3322761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3322761","url":null,"abstract":"Social isolation is an important determinant of elderly people's health and well-being. Modern technologies could be a powerful ally in combating social isolation. However, instead of replacing human relationships they should help build them within a person's most natural social circles. This paper presents a framework for development of a technological coaching solution that can safeguard or even boost the everyday social life of the elderly. The modus operandi of this system spans from unobtrusive data collection through data processing and situation assessment of social behaviour, to selection and rendering of the most appropriate coaching actions to the elderly person including through members of their social circles. The assessment and decision-making process also integrates three important groups of external factors which influence the solution. These are: (i) personal profiles of the elderly and those members of the social circles who participate in the coaching process; (ii) objective external environment and (iii) the quality of the coaching actions. The latter is a crucial element of the system's learning abilities.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"4 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":"125856758","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}
O. Kocsis, K. Moustakas, N. Fakotakis, C. Vassiliou, Androniki Toska, G. Vanderheiden, Achilleas Stergiou, Dimitrios Amaxilatis, André Pardal, J. Quintas, H. Hermens, M. Cabrita, C. Dantas, Sonja Hansen, T. Ziemke, Valentina Tageo, P. Dougan
{"title":"SmartWork: designing a smart age-friendly living and working environment for office workers","authors":"O. Kocsis, K. Moustakas, N. Fakotakis, C. Vassiliou, Androniki Toska, G. Vanderheiden, Achilleas Stergiou, Dimitrios Amaxilatis, André Pardal, J. Quintas, H. Hermens, M. Cabrita, C. Dantas, Sonja Hansen, T. Ziemke, Valentina Tageo, P. Dougan","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3322766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3322766","url":null,"abstract":"Europe is being severely challenged by the ageing of the population, and although for well over a decade now is looking for strategies to effectively increase the labour force participation of older workers and reduce the rates of early retirement and labour market exit, the unemployment amongst older people remains particularly high. The design and realization of age-friendly living and working environments is a huge challenge that we have just only started to address as the number of older citizens who are and want to continue being active members of society and live independently is constantly increasing. This paper introduces the SmartWork project, which aims at building a worker-centric Artificial Intelligence system for work ability sustainability, integrating unobtrusive sensing and modelling of the worker state with a suite of novel services for context and worker-aware adaptive work support.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"107 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":"122517051","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: RoboSense workshop: Robotic sensing in human-robot interaction workshop","authors":"Maria Kyrarini, K. Tsiakas","doi":"10.1145/3337997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3337997","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"456 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":"122803550","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":"SmartCane: an active cane to support blind people through virtual mobility training","authors":"Meinhardt Branig, Christin Engel","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3322742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3322742","url":null,"abstract":"Navigation and orientation in known and unknown environments is challenging for blind people. We developed a proof-of-concept prototype that aims to support blind people using force feedback on a white cane. The prototype combines a common cane with a robotic ball. This makes it possible to guide the user directly without the need of additional equipment or unfamiliar navigation methods. We present a concept to mount the robotic ball at the end of the cane as well as a way to calibrate and control it automatically. In the future the prototype can be enhanced and extended so it guides blind users directly and gives feedback about directions and covered movements with the cane. This may support blind people by giving virtual mobility training or helping in navigation scenarios.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"76 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":"132841779","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":"Drive by maintenance: towards adaptive work environments with improved industrial HCI","authors":"A. Miclaus, Erik Pescara, A. Maedche, M. Beigl","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3322751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3322751","url":null,"abstract":"Although automation is the backbone of the modern industrial complex, humans remain the indispensable shepherds of the machine park. One operator may be responsible for several machines that need to run continuously. Unfortunately, the complexity of the machines and processes increased faster than the improvement in the corresponding interaction technologies. We propose a multi-modal adaptive human computer interface system for the modern industry that relies on position, activity and other relevant contextual information, in order to provide a more flexible interaction in industrial scenarios. Information about the machine, is transmitted to the worker using a vibrotactile display on his wrist whenever the line of sight is broken. The context in which the user and the machine currently reside in, are determined by software artefacts (Apps). We leverage modern software concepts and an App based eco-system platform on the manufacturing shop floor to organize the software systems described in this paper. We evaluate transmitting arbitrary information via vibrotactile displays and come to the conclusion that such a system is feasible in industrial settings and may be beneficial as it has a very low distraction rate.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"38 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":"131883249","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}
Dimitrios A. Gatsios, Eleni I. Georga, Konstantina D. Kourou, D. Fotiadis, D. Kikidis, A. Bibas, Christos Nikitas, M. Liston, M. Pavlou, D. Bamiou, S. Costafreda
{"title":"Achieving adherence in home-based rehabilitation with novel human machine interactions that stimulate community-dwelling older adults","authors":"Dimitrios A. Gatsios, Eleni I. Georga, Konstantina D. Kourou, D. Fotiadis, D. Kikidis, A. Bibas, Christos Nikitas, M. Liston, M. Pavlou, D. Bamiou, S. Costafreda","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3322762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3322762","url":null,"abstract":"Balance disorders are expressed with main symptoms of vertigo, dizziness instability and disorientation. Most of them are caused by inner ear pathologies, but neurological, medical and psychological factors are also responsible. Balance disorders overwhelmingly affect daily activities and cause psychological and emotional hardship. They are also the main cause of falls which are a global epidemic. Home based balance rehabilitation is an effective approach for alleviating symptoms and for improving balance and self-confidence. However, the adherence in such programs is usually low with lack of motivation and disease related issues being the most influential factors. Holobalance adopts the Capability, Opportunity and Motivation (COM) and Behaviour (B) model to identify the sources of the behaviour that should be targeted for intervention and proposes specific Information Technology components that provide the identified interventions to the users in order to achieve the target behavioural change, which in this case is adherence to home base rehabilitation.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"333 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":"115228049","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":"Investigating motion sickness techniques for immersive virtual environments","authors":"Roman Luks, F. Liarokapis","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3321535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3321535","url":null,"abstract":"Motion sickness is one of important issues in immersive virtual environments. In some cases it may last for hours after participation in the virtual experience. Reducing the amount of motion sickness in healthcare applications is of great importance. This paper is examining how motion sickness can be reduced in immersive virtual environments. Two visual methods were designed to assess how they could help to alleviate motion sickness. The first method is the presence of a frame of reference (in form of a cockpit and a radial) and the second method is the visible path (in form of waypoints in the virtual environment). Four testing groups were formed: two for each individual method, one combining both methods and one control group. Each group consisted of 15 healthy subjects. Results show that there is a pattern in the data favouring visual path as a better method against motion sickness compared to the frame of reference.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"38 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":"114573983","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}