{"title":"Interference Management for Co-channel Mobile Femtocells Technology in LTE Networks","authors":"R. Raheem, A. Lasebae, Mahdi Aiash, J. Loo","doi":"10.1109/IE.2016.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.21","url":null,"abstract":"The dense deployment of Femtocells within the Macrocell's coverage is expected to dominate the future of Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. While Mobile Femtocells (Mobile-Femtos) could be the solution for vehicular networks when there is a need to improve the vehicular User Equipment (UE) performance by mitigating the impact of penetration loss and path-loss issues. The deployed Femtocells have operated in a co-channel deployment due to the scarcity of spectrums. This issue causes interference between Femtocells and Macrocells as well it causes extra overhead on the LTE networks because of the co-tire interference between adjacent Femtocells. In this paper two interference scenarios are considered, the interference between Mobile-Femto and Macrocell, and the interference between the Mobile Femtos themselves. Therefore, to avoid the generated interference between Femtocells, the controlled transmission powers as well as the coverage planning techniques have been discussed. While in the worst-case scenarios, a frequency reuse scheme has been proposed to avoid the generated interference effectively and dynamically between the Mobile-Femtos as well as their UEs and between the Macrocell UEs.","PeriodicalId":425456,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121688773","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":"Using Optical Head-Mounted Devices (OHMD) for Provision of Feedback in Education","authors":"Georgios A. Dafoulas, C. Maia, M. Loomes","doi":"10.1109/IE.2016.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.34","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the investigation of using Optical Head-Mounted Devices (OHMD) for provision of feedback in education. In particular it discusses an investigation in the use of Google Glass in real time training and mentoring. First the papers discusses an application created for the device for provision of feedback on student presentation. Next the paper presents, the research conducted with an experiment involving ninety-two participants testing the application in a real life scenario.","PeriodicalId":425456,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)","volume":"356 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115898238","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":"Activity Recognition from Video Data Using Spatial and Temporal Features","authors":"M. Al-Wattar, R. Khusainov, D. Azzi, J. Chiverton","doi":"10.1109/IE.2016.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.57","url":null,"abstract":"A method to monitor elderly people in an indoor environment using conventional cameras is presented. The method can be used to identify people's activities and initiate suitable actions as needed. The originality of our approach is in combining spatial and temporal contexts with the position and orientation for the detected person. Preliminary evaluation, based only on the first two features (spatial and temporal), achieved the accuracy over 60% in a realistic residential environment. Although the results are based on using only two out of the four proposed input features, they already demonstrate a promising improvement over using a single feature in isolation.","PeriodicalId":425456,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126694458","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":"On-Line Inference Comparison with Markov Logic Network Engines for Activity Recognition in AAL Environments","authors":"M. Fernández-Carmona, N. Bellotto","doi":"10.1109/IE.2016.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.29","url":null,"abstract":"We address possible solutions for a practical application of Markov Logic Networks to online activity recognition, based on domotic sensors, to be used for monitoring elderly with mild cognitive impairments. Our system has to provide responsive information about user activities throughout the day, so different inference engines are tested. We use an abstraction layer to gather information from commercial domotic sensors. Sensor events are stored using a non-relational database. Using this database, evidences are built to query a logic network about current activities. Markov Logic Networks are able to deal with uncertainty while keeping a structured knowledge. This makes them a suitable tool for ambient sensors based inference. However, in their previous application, inferences are usually made offline. Time is a relevant constrain in our system and hence logic networks are designed here accordingly. We compare in this work different engines to model a Markov Logic Network suitable for such circumstances. Results show some insights about how to design a low latency logic network and which kind of solutions should be avoided.","PeriodicalId":425456,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122469159","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":"Preliminary Study of Adaptive Decision-Making System for Vocal Command in Smart Home","authors":"Alexis Brenon, François Portet, Michel Vacher","doi":"10.1109/IE.2016.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.49","url":null,"abstract":"In smart homes, prediction and decision are often defined a priori and require tuning from the user, which can be tedious, and complex. However, these smart homes have the ability to analyze the user's behavior so as to adapt their decisions automatically. We present a preliminary study that tests a voice based decision system in the home, which is modified by reinforcement learning. The system ran on a realistic corpus, which shows the interest of such an adaptation.","PeriodicalId":425456,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124219629","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":"Intelligent Integration Framework for Smart Transport System","authors":"N. Khan, Vesna Brujic-Okretic, S. Khaddaj","doi":"10.1109/IE.2016.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.20","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose a framework to acquire, store, manipulate and integrate information to optimize scheduling and traffic control in real-time, in an urban environment. This research concentrates on the architecture that supports this functionality and on the integration of technologies and algorithms to provide data analytics and decision making in real time. An outline of the research is presented together with the results obtained when the framework is applied to the Mermaid Technology company data, for a bus network operation in Copenhagen. The contribution of this work in progress is in offering a two-tier architecture that can deal with both the steady-state regime of the bus operation in an urban environment and with ad hoc, emergency situations.","PeriodicalId":425456,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115428664","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":"mHealth - Investigating an Information Security Framework for mHealth Data: Challenges and Possible Solutions","authors":"Nattaruedee Vithanwattana, G. Mapp, C. George","doi":"10.1109/IE.2016.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.59","url":null,"abstract":"It has been clearly shown that mHealth solutions deliver more patient-focused healthcare and improve the overall efficiency of healthcare systems. In addition, these solutions can potentially reduce the cost of providing healthcare in the context of the increasing demands of the ageing populations in advanced economies. These solutions can also play an important part in intelligent environments, facilitating real-time data collection and input to enable various functionalities. However, there are various challenges regarding the development of mHealth solutions: the most important of these being privacy and data security. Furthermore, the use of Cloud Computing is becoming an option for the healthcare sector to store healthcare data, but storing data in the Cloud raises serious concerns. This paper discusses issues related to managing mHealth data in this new context including challenges, security frameworks and requirements, and possible solutions.","PeriodicalId":425456,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124866949","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":"Exploring Eye-Tracking-Based Detection of Visual Search for Elderly People","authors":"Michael Dietz, Daniel Schork, E. André","doi":"10.1109/IE.2016.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.32","url":null,"abstract":"Visual search plays an important role in our daily lives and can be very frustrating whenever we cannot remember where we left objects, such as keys or wallets. This is especially true for elderly people, since they forget things more often and face this challenge very frequently. While there are several studies which analyze eye movements during visual search, none of them actually tries to detect whether a user is searching for something or not. However, this information is necessary to recognize when the user needs assistance. Therefore, we propose an eye-tracking-based multimodal approach in order to detect visual search and to support the user in that situation. Furthermore, we explore multiple strategies to inform the user of the desired object's location using a head mounted display. With the help of a prototypical implementation and evaluation of the acquired sensor data, we show that our method is feasible and capable of dealing with this challenge.","PeriodicalId":425456,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125492274","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. Flutura, J. Wagner, F. Lingenfelser, A. Seiderer, E. André
{"title":"MobileSSI - A Multi-modal Framework for Social Signal Interpretation on Mobile Devices","authors":"S. Flutura, J. Wagner, F. Lingenfelser, A. Seiderer, E. André","doi":"10.1109/IE.2016.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.47","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last years, new generations of mobile devices have found their way into our pockets. They provide more and more computational power and memory capacity to perform complex calculations that formerly could only be accomplished with bulky desktop machines. Moreover, mobile devices are equipped with a range of sensors to capture people's motion, environmental sound etc. These capabilities combined with the willingness of people to permanently carry them around open up completely new ways of observing human behaviour no longer in laboratories, but \"in the wild\". However, the detection and analysis of social cues is still a challenging task and requires adequate tools to synchronise, process and analyse relevant signals. This may be the reason why many studies and applications focus on offline analysis and typically collect data over long periods of time and analyse them afterwards. To allow for immediate feedback, real-time assessment is necessary. In this paper, we present MobileSSI, a port of the Social Signal Interpretation (SSI) framework to Android and embedded Linux platforms. The framework supports the joint development of processing pipelines for the analysis of social signals on a desktop computer and mobile devices. Throughout the paper we report on challenges we had to face when porting SSI to a mobile context. Furthermore, we summarise first experiences with a real-life setting in a pub where we focused on the analysis of multimodal social group dynamics investigating laughter as a sign of enjoyment.","PeriodicalId":425456,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128914235","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}
Amélie Boudreault, J. Bouchard, B. Bouchard, Shawn Whittom-Ross
{"title":"Validation of a Smart Stove for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients in a Cooking Task","authors":"Amélie Boudreault, J. Bouchard, B. Bouchard, Shawn Whittom-Ross","doi":"10.1109/IE.2016.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2016.52","url":null,"abstract":"Each year, thousands of individuals sustain a traumatic brain injury leaving them diminished in various spheres. The impacts of such a condition are multifaceted and may change the lifestyle of victims and their families, who often take on the role of natural caregivers. Victims are often young adults who wish to maintain a lifestyle similar to the one they had prior to their accident. Though certain cases imply that resuming their activities of daily living is not a possibility, others will be able to live a fairly normal life with the help of natural caregivers or assistive technologies. This paper presents a study that was performed in our laboratory with TBI victims to assess the reliability of a smart stove designed for cognitively-impaired individuals in order to determine if it can replace the assistance provided by a caregiver.","PeriodicalId":425456,"journal":{"name":"2016 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133568112","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}