S. Krause, Marian Haescher, Wencke Chodan, G. Bieber
{"title":"Nocturnal respiration pattern of healthy people as a hint for sleep state detection","authors":"S. Krause, Marian Haescher, Wencke Chodan, G. Bieber","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3324015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3324015","url":null,"abstract":"Sleep state detection is important to distinguish between a healthy sleep and sleep disorders. Common sleep state analysis methods consist of identifying signals of EEG, EOG, or EMG etc. that can only be assessed in sleep laboratories. The respiration rate and pattern are also affected by the sleep states but are not included in the sleep state analysis method. Since sleep is very important for the recreation of humans, we assume that sleep is mirroring the strain of the day and the general health condition. In our research, we identified a certain respiration rate pattern during sleep in 5 out of 17 healthy persons that might be an identifier for sleep states or for interactions of daytime activity and sleep. Therefore, we introduce this new respiration pattern as \"pumping breathing\" and compare it with other known respiration patterns.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"78 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":"126172256","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 robotic drinking assistance: low cost multi-sensor system to limit forces in human-robot-interaction","authors":"Tom L. Koller, Maria Kyrarini, A. Gräser","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3321539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3321539","url":null,"abstract":"Assistive robotic manipulators have the potential to support individuals with severe motor impairments at performing activities of daily life. With the help of robotic manipulators, the individuals may eat and drink independently of caregivers. The presented research work focuses on interactive drinking with a cup without a straw. The interaction exposes the user to potential harm due to the direct contact with the robot. In the presented work, a multi-sensor system is outlined, which ensures harmless contact forces between robot and human during an interactive drinking task. Tests on a healthy subject are performed and indicate pain-free interaction with the system. The sensor system is designed to allow the user an intuitive control of the task. The lip pressure is measured at the contact points and will be used in future work to control the tilting angle of the cup, which is grasped by the robot.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"33 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":"129574845","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":"vIIS","authors":"Sanika Gupta, Luke Owens, K. Tsiakas, F. Makedon","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3324016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3324016","url":null,"abstract":"Training and assessment of a new worker is the most vital part of any vocational industry. The landscape of jobs and work is changing rapidly, thanks to the emerging new technology and the advancement of knowledge in the scientific fields. This technological and scientific revolution presents an opportunity in the creation of new industries and occupations, enhanced productivity and quality of work life, and the potential for more people to participate in the workforce. But these come at risk and disadvantage of an increased cost of training as well as lack of proper training in a few industries. In this paper, we propose to build a vIIS framework - A Vocational Interactive Immersive Storytelling system that uses storytelling in an Interactive virtual environment to train and assess a worker a new skill. The major advantage of this vIIS system is that it provides constant feedback in an engaging immersive virtual reality environment and has better memory retention and recall of the trained task. For assessment, we intend to collect data such as task completion time, accuracy, error rate, qualitative feedback and also measure transfer learning.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"29 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":"117252666","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: Telepresence, virtual and augmented reality","authors":"Eric Becker","doi":"10.1145/3337993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3337993","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"55 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":"127219889","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":"Launching experiment-driven research and maintaining research community for assistive technology: a look at experiments in presentations given to the technical committee on well-being information technology","authors":"Kazunori Minatani, Kahori Yokota","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3321540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3321540","url":null,"abstract":"The Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology is a research group that has been steadily holding meetings on assistive technology in Japan for twenty years. This study looked at the way experiments presented to the committee were conducted between 2013 and 2015 in order to collect basic data that would contribute to alleviating the difficulty of conducting experiments having persons with disabilities as participants. A total of 330 presentations were given during the study period. The median number of participants in experiments having persons with disabilities as participants in was four, and the mode was one. The median number of participants in experiments having able-bodied persons as participants in was six, and the mode was six.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"12 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":"114706430","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}
Andrew Pringle, Stefanie Hutka, Jesse Mom, Robin van Esch, Niall Heffernan, Paul Chen
{"title":"Ethnographic study of a commercially available augmented reality HMD app for industry work instruction","authors":"Andrew Pringle, Stefanie Hutka, Jesse Mom, Robin van Esch, Niall Heffernan, Paul Chen","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3322752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3322752","url":null,"abstract":"Industrial applications of Augmented Reality (AR) are becoming increasingly commonplace but there are only a small number of published user studies examining the use of commercially available AR technologies, like AR HMDs, with real workers in real industry settings. This paper presents ethnographic research of an industry task that includes the context of the industry procedure, pain-points with current methods and a user experience study of an HMD-delivered AR application for delivering work instructions to support engineers performing the procedure. The AR application is delivered to engineers with different levels of experience through a commercially-available AR HMD (the DAQRI Smart Glasses®). Engineers (users) were observed and video recorded by researchers as they performed the procedure in the real-world setting of a sprinkler room of a hospital in the Netherlands. Engineers who used AR were found to deviate less from the correct procedure in comparison to an engineer who performed sprinkler maintenance using the current industry method, without AR instruction. Errors made by engineers on the procedure, together with semi-structured interview responses, shed light on customer pain points that AR can alleviate, useful UX/UI design considerations, barriers to adoption and insights for informing larger scale user evaluations of industry AR from maintenance to manufacturing.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"7 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":"121600828","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. Kosch, Kevin Wennrich, D. Topp, Marcel Muntzinger, A. Schmidt
{"title":"The digital cooking coach: using visual and auditory in-situ instructions to assist cognitively impaired during cooking","authors":"T. Kosch, Kevin Wennrich, D. Topp, Marcel Muntzinger, A. Schmidt","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3321524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3321524","url":null,"abstract":"To date, approximately 20% of the world population lives with a level of cognitive impairment. In Western Europe, sheltered living facilities have emerged which collaboratively convey and train daily living skills for people with cognitive disabilities. This includes cooking as an important communal activity. However, tenants receive rudimentary cooking training since most facilities are affected by a worker shortage as they are driven on a voluntary basis. In this work, we investigate how digital in-situ assistance can be used to convey cooking instructions in kitchens. We conduct a user study (N=10) over two weeks in a sheltered living facility to evaluate the cooking performance and subjective perception between in-situ assistance and caretaker assistance. We find that caretaker assistance requires less time to prepare a meal when participants cooked previously with in-situ assistance. Our results are complemented by positive feedback of using in-situ instructions. We discuss how in-situ assistance enables independent cooking sessions in living environments for cognitively impaired.","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":"121917019","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}
Ilya Makarov, Nikolay Veldyaykin, M. Chertkov, Aleksei Pokoev
{"title":"American and russian sign language dactyl recognition","authors":"Ilya Makarov, Nikolay Veldyaykin, M. Chertkov, Aleksei Pokoev","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3316786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3316786","url":null,"abstract":"Sign languages are the main way for people from deaf community to communicate with other people. In this paper, we have compared several real-time sign language dactyl recognition systems using deep convolutional neural networks. Our system is able to recognize words from natural language gestured using signs for each letter. We evaluate our approach on American (ASL) and Russian (RSL) sign languages. For ASL, we trained on dataset prepared by Massey University, Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, for RSL we collect our own dataset, which we aim to enlarge together with RSL community in Russia. The results showed 100% accuracy for ASL Massey dataset, while RSL recognition quality is behind sufficient quality due to much more complex nature of real-world RSL dataset.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"36 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":"122111826","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":"Feasibility analysis of sensor modalities to control a robot with eye and head movements for assistive tasks","authors":"J. Schäfer, Marion Gebhard","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3322774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3322774","url":null,"abstract":"Assistive robotics has offered a way for people with severe motor disabilities (i. e. tetraplegics) to perform every day tasks without help. New sensor modalities to control a robot system are investigated within this work to enable tetraplegics to gain more autonomy in everyday life. In this work several modalities to capture information related to the user are tested and compared. The five sensor modalities, electrooculography, video-based eye tracking, MARG sensors, video-based head tracking and electromyography of the posterior auricular muscle, can be used to control a robot hands-free. It is proposed to use movements of the head as continuous control and eye movements as discrete event control. The tests show that the MARG sensors are most reliable to track head movements and eye tracking glasses to capture movements of the eyes.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"132 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":"117133694","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 Giakoumis, K. Votis, E. Altsitsiadis, S. Segkouli, I. Paliokas, D. Tzovaras
{"title":"Smart, personalized and adaptive ICT solutions for active, healthy and productive ageing with enhanced workability","authors":"Dimitrios Giakoumis, K. Votis, E. Altsitsiadis, S. Segkouli, I. Paliokas, D. Tzovaras","doi":"10.1145/3316782.3322767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3322767","url":null,"abstract":"Along with population ageing comes the increasingly intensified phenomenon of a shrinking and ageing workforce. Novel solutions are needed so as to help ageing workers maintain workability and productivity, along with a balance between work and personal life, which supports them into good quality of life, active and healthy ageing. In this line, the \"Ageing@work\" project, initiated by the European Union, develops a novel ICT-based, personalized system to support ageing workers (aged 50+) into designing fit for purpose work environments and managing flexibly their evolving needs. On top of personalized, dynamically adapted worker and workplace models, computational intelligence will assess user specificities and needs i.r.t. work conditions, both in terms of ergonomics, health and safety issues and task assignments. Recommendations will then be provided both to the worker and company, under strict privacy restrictions, on how the working conditions must adapt. The worker models will be populated by unobtrusive worker sensing, both at work, at home and on the move. To foster workability and productivity, personalized, intuitive, age-friendly productivity, co-design enhancement tools will be developed, including ones for AR/VR-based context-awareness and telepresence, lifelong learning and knowledge sharing. On top of these, a novel Ambient Virtual Coach (AVC) will encompass an empathic mirroring avatar for subtle notifications provision, an adaptive Visual Analytics - based personal dashboard, and a reward-based motivation system targeting positive and balanced worker behavior at work and personal life, towards a novel paradigm of ambient support into workability and well-being. The integrated system will be developed by user-centered design and will be evaluated at two pilot sites, related to core Industry 4.0 processes of mining and machines production.","PeriodicalId":264425,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"78 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":"115080659","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}