{"title":"Session details: SIPDA: Vision Systems and Data Analytics for Life Quality Improvement Workshop","authors":"A. Doulamis","doi":"10.1145/3258051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3258051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":359504,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115648975","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}
Manolis Vasileiadis, Dimitrios Giakoumis, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras
{"title":"A Living Lab Infrastructure for Investigating Activity Monitoring Needs in Service Robot Applications","authors":"Manolis Vasileiadis, Dimitrios Giakoumis, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras","doi":"10.1145/2910674.2935830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2910674.2935830","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a framework that has been developed for automatic activity recognition and domestic behavior monitoring, towards supporting elderly MCI patients in their daily domestic life. Our framework's infrastructure consists of a network of smart-home sensors and RGB-D cameras that can be adapted and be unobtrusively installed in a variety of indoor living areas, collecting data relative to the human's movement and the state of the home environment. User activities and behavior are then assessed through machine learning algorithms applied on these data. The developed framework has been applied in real house settings and extensive analysis has been performed, so as to investigate how human activity and behavior monitoring needs, in the scope of ICT solutions for supporting active and healthy ageing of MCI patients, can be covered in the scope of corresponding service robot applications.","PeriodicalId":359504,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"440 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123096474","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}
Jinhua She, Fajian Wu, Toshihiro Mita, H. Hashimoto, Min Wu
{"title":"Design of a New Human-Centered Rehabilitation Machine","authors":"Jinhua She, Fajian Wu, Toshihiro Mita, H. Hashimoto, Min Wu","doi":"10.1145/2910674.2910684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2910674.2910684","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new kind of rehabilitation machine. While the commercially available ones are machine-centered, that is, people have to adapt themselves to the machines to do exercises; the structure and characteristics of the one shown in this paper are easily to be adjusted to suit the need for people with lower-limb injuries. So, it is human centered. The consideration for the design of machine structure is investigated from the fields of ergonomics and rehabilitation. A proto type of half of the machine for one leg was designed and built. And some results of experimental test are presented.","PeriodicalId":359504,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"73 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113971840","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":"Genre-Ation: A Music Genre Identification Application","authors":"Milind Bhattacharya, Sravanthi Garikipati, Meena Valisekka, Michalis Papakostas","doi":"10.1145/2910674.2935862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2910674.2935862","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a novel and faster approach to identify songs by genre. Our application, Genre-Ation, converts the audio signals to spectrograms and waveforms and uses thresholding for feature extraction. In addition, we propose a user-friendly web interface for this application and we evaluate it through a usability testing. Experiments suggested that Genre-Ation outperforms the existing music applications in terms of creating accurate genre based playlist due to the fact that our application is attuned with songs without metadata.","PeriodicalId":359504,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130099637","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}
C. Langensiepen, Ahmad Lotfi, S. Chernbumroong, Pedro A. Moreno, E. Gómez
{"title":"A New Way to Build Multifacetted Ontologies for Elderly Care","authors":"C. Langensiepen, Ahmad Lotfi, S. Chernbumroong, Pedro A. Moreno, E. Gómez","doi":"10.1145/2910674.2935831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2910674.2935831","url":null,"abstract":"The care of the elderly is complex, with multiple agencies and individuals involved. We propose a new way of developing an ontology to reflect these aspects within a real-time home monitoring system so that it captures real-life circumstances and interactions. Our new methodology incorporates iterative and evaluative stages to ensure the ontology captures implementable interactions and concepts. We have applied it to the iCarer project which was developed to assist informal carers with the activities of daily care for the elderly.","PeriodicalId":359504,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128036578","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":"Accessible Tourism for the Deaf via Mobile Apps","authors":"F. Milicchio, M. Prosperi","doi":"10.1145/2910674.2910694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2910674.2910694","url":null,"abstract":"Accessible tourism seeks to integrate people with impaired abilities --e.g. mobility, vision, hearing-- in travel and leisure activities. The attention to this field has been growing in the past decade, thanks also to technological advancements in smart devices. This paper illustrates the enterprise of accessible tourism applications for smartphones and tablets, tailored for a Deaf Community audience. Specifically, we designed, developed and tested two apps for visiting indoor/outdoor archaeological sites. The apps were implemented for the National Roman Museum Palazzo Massimo, and the open-air archaeological excavation site of Ostia Antica, both in Rome, Italy. The apps are available for free download/use, and have been awarded the European Excellence Award for Accessible Tourism in Brussels, Belgium (2014).","PeriodicalId":359504,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127158373","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":"BlindHelper: A Pedestrian Navigation System for Blinds and Visually Impaired","authors":"A. Meliones, Costas Filios","doi":"10.1145/2910674.2910721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2910674.2910721","url":null,"abstract":"Notably valuable efforts have focused in helping people with special needs. Daily routine which is trivial for most of us is a real survival problem for groups of people with special needs and abilities, especially in a society with the bad habit to push to the side such people. This paper is focused on the problem of pedestrian navigation of visually impaired people. BlindHelper primarily enhances the ability of a visually impaired person to navigate efficiently to desired destinations without the aid of guides. Moreover it can provide multiple other uses during outdoor navigation such as dialing a call and notifying the current location in case of an emergency situation. The proposed system has been implemented as a smartphone application which interacts with a small embedded system responsible for reading simple user controls, high-accuracy GPS tracking of pedestrian mobility in real time, and identifying traffic light status and near-field obstacles along the route. This information is communicated to the smartphone application which in turn issues voice navigation instructions or undertakes further actions to help the user.","PeriodicalId":359504,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125985608","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":"Real-Life Constraints for Neuro Processing","authors":"N. Serbedzija","doi":"10.1145/2910674.2935841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2910674.2935841","url":null,"abstract":"This work explores the design and development of neuro processing systems. Due to inevitable impact that the technology, which makes humans a part of the processing loop, has on our behavior, inclusion of protective mechanisms in the early design phase is very important. A novel concept of real-life computing is presented featuring real experience as a major constraint upon which the neuro processing systems should be validated.","PeriodicalId":359504,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"24 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124440134","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}
Oliver Korn, L. Tso, Christos Papagrigoriou, Yannic Sowoidnich, R. Konrad, A. Schmidt
{"title":"Computerized Assessment of the Skills of Impaired and Elderly Workers: A Tool Survey and Comparative Study","authors":"Oliver Korn, L. Tso, Christos Papagrigoriou, Yannic Sowoidnich, R. Konrad, A. Schmidt","doi":"10.1145/2910674.2910675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2910674.2910675","url":null,"abstract":"The number of impaired persons rises -- as a result of both regular degradation with age and psychological problems like burnout. Sheltered work organizations aim to reintegrate impaired persons into work environments and prepare them for the re-entry in the regular job market. Both for elderly and for impaired persons it is crucial to quickly assess the abilities, to identify limits and potentials and thus find work processes suitable for their skill profile. This work focuses on the analysis and comparison of software-tools that assess the abilities of persons with impairments. We describe two established generic tools (CANTAB, Cogstate), analyze a yet unknown specialized tool (Hamet) and present a new gamified tool (GATRAS). Finally, we present a study with 20 participants with impairments, comparing the tools against a ground truth baseline generated by a real-world assembly task.","PeriodicalId":359504,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133606777","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}
Alexandros Lioulemes, Michalis Papakostas, Shawn N. Gieser, Theodora Toutountzi, M. Abujelala, Sanika Gupta, Christopher Collander, Christopher D. McMurrough, F. Makedon
{"title":"A Survey of Sensing Modalities for Human Activity, Behavior, and Physiological Monitoring","authors":"Alexandros Lioulemes, Michalis Papakostas, Shawn N. Gieser, Theodora Toutountzi, M. Abujelala, Sanika Gupta, Christopher Collander, Christopher D. McMurrough, F. Makedon","doi":"10.1145/2910674.2910711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2910674.2910711","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a survey of emerging technologies for non-invasive human activity, behavior, and physiological sensing. The survey focuses on technologies that are close to entering the commercial market, or have only recently become available. We intend for this survey to give researchers in any field relevant to human data collection an overview of currently accessible devices and sensing modalities, their capabilities, and how the technologies will mature with time.","PeriodicalId":359504,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"499 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116607440","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}