{"title":"R&D of the Japanese Input Method using Life Log on an Eye-controlled Communication Device for Users with Disabilities","authors":"K. Shoji, Hiromi Watanabe, S. Kotani","doi":"10.5220/0004681202070213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004681202070213","url":null,"abstract":"We aim to enable the smooth communication of persons physically unable to speak. In our past study, we proposed three Japanese input methods using a portable eyecontrolled communication device for users with conditions such as cerebral palsy or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, these methods require nearly 30 seconds to cycle through one Japanese character. In this paper, we suggest a method to estimate the input word using the clues of nearby characters and accumulated experience. In addition, to raise the precision of the prediction, we use the connection between words based on a thesaurus. We have realized precise word conversion via a few input letters, as proved by the result of the simulation","PeriodicalId":326453,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128772821","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":"An Arduino based Health Monitoring System for Elderly People Living at Home - Functions and Ontology","authors":"A. Costanzo, C. Pino","doi":"10.5220/0004762303360340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004762303360340","url":null,"abstract":"In recent decades, people, especially the older ones, try to live at home in autonomous way. For this purpose it is useful to monitor their vital signs and the environment that surrounds them with the aim of activating suitable environment regulation and when needed to send alarms to family members, medical, or hospitals, according to the criticality of the subject. The paper aims at proposing a flexible and reliable monitoring system based on Arduino shields. The main feature of the system is that it allows the doctor and family members to monitor the patients at distance using their mobiles. A suitable communication with the first aid center is foreseen for a fast rescue of the patients in case of critical situations. The general user model ontology is used so that the personal data featuring the patients and the relevant context may be used by any diagnostic and first aid software, thus envisaging an open and interoperable health monitoring system for elderly people living at home.","PeriodicalId":326453,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114268952","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":"An EOG-based Sleep Monitoring System and Its Application on On-line Sleep-stage Sensitive Light Control","authors":"C. Kuo, Sheng-Fu Liang, Yi-Chieh Lee, Fu-Yin Cherng, Wen-Chieh Lin, Peng-Yu Chen, Yen‐Chen Liu, Fu-Zen Shaw","doi":"10.5220/0004725600200030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004725600200030","url":null,"abstract":"Human beings spend approximately one third of their lives sleeping. Conventionally, to evaluate a subjects sleep quality, all-night polysomnogram (PSG) readings are taken and scored by a well-trained expert. The development of an automatic sleep-staging system that does not rely upon mounting a bulky PSG or EEG recorder on the head will enable physiological computing systems (PhyCS) to progress toward easy sleep and comfortable monitoring. In this paper, an electrooculogram (EOG)-based sleep scoring system is proposed. Compared to PSG or EEG recordings, EOG has the advantage of easy placement, and can be operated by the user individually. The proposed method was found to be more than 83% accurate when compared with the manual scorings applied to sixteen subjects. In addition to sleep-quality evaluation, the proposed system encompasses adaptive brightness control of light according to online monitoring of the users sleep stages. The experiments show that the EOG-based sleep scoring system is a practicable solution for home-use sleep monitoring due to the advantages of comfortable recording and accurate sleep staging.","PeriodicalId":326453,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems","volume":"265 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122467354","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":"Influence of Electric Bicycle Usage on Biker Effort - On-road Monitoring Application in Lisbon, Portugal","authors":"Magno Mendes, Gonçalo Duarte, P. Baptista","doi":"10.5220/0004701202650274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004701202650274","url":null,"abstract":"Bicycle use in urban environments is an alternative mobility option, which enables people to travel longer, faster and with less effort than walking, with low environmental impacts. The use of electric bicycles (EB) has risen as another possibility to promote a more efficient transportation use. However, the quantification of the real impacts for the biker of shifting from conventional (CB) to EB is not yet quantified. This research work aims at estimating the impacts on physiological signals, namely, on heart rate, from using EB instead of CB, using a suitable methodology for on-road bio-signals data analysis. The on-road monitoring of 6 bikers, 2 routes and 3 bicycles in Lisbon presented a 57% average reduction in HR variation from using EB, since under high power demanding situations, the electric motor attenuates human effort. It was also possible to estimate the energy expenditure associated to the human effort that results from using the bicycles. For the CB the total energy spent reaches 70 Wh/km, while the EB presents 51 Wh/km of human energy (28% lower than the CB) and 9 Wh/km of electricity consumption, resulting in a total of 60 Wh/km. Consequently, the total energy per km is 14% lower in the EB compared to the CB.","PeriodicalId":326453,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128657016","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":"Inducing Behavior Change in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Monitoring their Attention","authors":"M. Silva, Hugo Silva, Daniel Gonçalves","doi":"10.5220/0004698401310136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004698401310136","url":null,"abstract":"Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) generally suffer from disorders which affect multiple behavioral aspects, such as communication, emotional awareness, social interaction, lack of attention, among many others. Modern technologies, are opening up new possibilities for computer-mediated interactions with increased outcomes, enabling both children and tutors to have a more effective work in the development of communicative and cognitive skills. In this article we introduce a module implemented in a platform for human-computer interaction, specifically designed for children with ASD, to control their levels of attention and test inducing behavior change. This allows us to shape new behaviors and learning strategies both in tutors","PeriodicalId":326453,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132429915","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}
E. Jang, Mi-Sook Park, B. Park, Sang-Hyebo Kim, M. Chung, J. Sohn
{"title":"Relationship between Affective Dimensions and Physiological Responses Induced by Emotional Stimuli - Base on Affective Dimensions: Arousal, Valence, Intensity and Approach","authors":"E. Jang, Mi-Sook Park, B. Park, Sang-Hyebo Kim, M. Chung, J. Sohn","doi":"10.5220/0004728302540259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004728302540259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326453,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125822065","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":"Can Ultrasonic Doppler Help Detecting Nasality for Silent Speech Interfaces? - An Exploratory Analysis based on Alignement of the Doppler Signal with Velum Aperture Information from Real-Time MRI","authors":"João Freitas, A. Teixeira, J. M. Dias","doi":"10.5220/0004725902320239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004725902320239","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an exploratory analysis on the usefulness of the information made available from Ultrasonic Doppler signal data collected from a single speaker, to detect velum movement associated to European Portuguese nasal vowels. This is directly related to the unsolved problem of detecting nasality in silent speech interfaces. The applied procedure uses Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging (RT-MRI), collected from the same speaker providing a method to interpret the reflected ultrasonic data. By ensuring compatible scenario conditions and proper time alignment between the Ultrasonic Doppler signal data and the RT-MRI data, we are able to accurately estimate the time when the velum moves and the type of movement under a nasal vowel occurrence. The combination of these two sources revealed a moderate relation between the average energy of frequency bands around the carrier, indicating a probable presence of velum information in the Ultrasonic Doppler signal.","PeriodicalId":326453,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124782909","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":"Arduino based System for Indoor and Outdoor ECG Monitoring - Functions and Extended User Model Ontology","authors":"C. Pino, A. Costanzo","doi":"10.5220/0004762203310335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004762203310335","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a system for monitoring the environment and biometric parameters like ECG for cardiac patients is presented. Monitoring Health Environment can be considered important like monitoring the patient in direct way. In this paper we propose an architecture consisting of a sensors network to monitor the patient environment in conjunction with other biometric parameters like ECG with the aim to control the health status in outdoor and indoor conditions. The monitoring system makes use of different sensors such as: oxygen level, air quality, humidity, temperature, ECG, integrated with an Arduino controller. The observed data are sent via GPRS or Wi-Fi to a server to activate the regulation of the environment conditions. Patient environment and health status can be monitored in remote way by mobile thanks to a","PeriodicalId":326453,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129595108","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":"Directed Effort - A Generic Measurand for Higher Level Behavior Analysis","authors":"Benedikt Gollan, A. Ferscha","doi":"10.5220/0004696500830090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004696500830090","url":null,"abstract":"Behavior and body language are essential components of human interaction. In this paper, we propose a meta-level representation of human behavior for interpretative, higher level applications in human-computer interaction systems called Directed Effort. A theoretical framework is described which is derived from behavioral and psychological sciences and which is designed to represent the commitment and interest of people towards objects via behavior analysis in real-life scenarios. Directed Effort, a score which allows the interpretation of detected behavior changes is introduced as a generic measurand. Furthermore, a prototypical implementation is documented to show the potential of the computed meta-level description of behavior.","PeriodicalId":326453,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121405023","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}
H. Silva, José Guerreiro, A. Lourenço, A. Fred, Raúl Martins
{"title":"BITalino: A Novel Hardware Framework for Physiological Computing","authors":"H. Silva, José Guerreiro, A. Lourenço, A. Fred, Raúl Martins","doi":"10.5220/0004727802460253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004727802460253","url":null,"abstract":"Physical computing has spun a true global revolution in the way in which the digital interfaces with the real world. From bicycle jackets with turn signal lights to twitter-controlled christmas trees, the Do-it-Yourself (DiY) hardware movement has been driving endless innovations and stimulating an age of creative engineering. This ongoing (r)evolution has been led by popular electronics platforms such as the Arduino, the Lilypad, or the Raspberry Pi, however, these are not designed taking into account the specific requirements of biosignal acquisition. To date, the physiological computing community has been severely lacking a parallel to that found in the DiY electronics realm, especially in what concerns suitable hardware frameworks. In this paper, we build on previous work developed within our group, focusing on an all-in-one, low-cost, and modular biosignal acquisition hardware platform, that makes it quicker and easier to build biomedical devices. We describe the main design considerations, experimental evaluation and circuit characterization results, together with the results from a usability study performed with volunteers from multiple target user groups, namely health sciences and electrical, biomedical, and computer engineering.","PeriodicalId":326453,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116939119","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}