J. Jiménez, Juan Mercado, L. Carrasco, Verónica Ruíz, V. Solachidis, Javier Serrano, N. Vretos, F. Álvarez
{"title":"Monitoring of motor function in the rehabilitation room","authors":"J. Jiménez, Juan Mercado, L. Carrasco, Verónica Ruíz, V. Solachidis, Javier Serrano, N. Vretos, F. Álvarez","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534761","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of chronic diseases, it is difficult to maintain adherence and motivation in rehabilitation treatment. The inclusion of technological tools that help to obtain objective data that allow the patient to be monitored and provide feedback on the development of exercises is very useful to increase long-term adherence to treatment. Devices such as depth sensors and smartbands, which collect information on movement angles and heart rate among other parameters, can be introduced into the rehabilitation room without being intrusive. In the TeNDER project, a tool has been developed that allows the monitoring of activities performed during the execution of regular therapy and the analysis of these data to be presented as feedback via a mobile application to patients and caregivers/family members; and thanks to a web app as evolution data to health professionals.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114259239","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":"The development of a blended learning course and Back-end as a Service System for educating university students on Genetic Counseling.","authors":"M. Makri, M. Tsolaki","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534715","url":null,"abstract":"The education community, in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), regards blended learning as an ideal model for realizing personalized learning, increasing learning opportunities, and reducing operating costs, as it combines the advantages of traditional face-to-face and online learning. In recent years, a blended learning course is a common tool in Departments of Health Science like Medicine, Biology, Nursing as it addresses the challenges of traditional learning and continues the pace of practice. In addition, Back-end as a Service System seems to be an effective technique that can be easily integrated into any e-learning platform, increasing the sustainability and impact of the blended learning courses, while promoting the competencies of students and giving them the possibility to exchange results internationally. The main purpose of GECONEU project is to develop a blended learning e-course on Genetic Counseling for students’ evaluation and education and design, develop and test a Back-end as a Service System that will be integrated into HEIs across Europe.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122564289","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}
D. Ahmetovic, Davide Bagnato, Alessandro Frangiamone, S. Mascetti, Simone Passaro, A. Taroni, Stefano Di Terlizzi, Valentina Begnozzi, E. Boccalandro, R. Gualtierotti, F. Peyvandi
{"title":"Play4Physio: Supporting Physical Therapy of Children with Hemophilia","authors":"D. Ahmetovic, Davide Bagnato, Alessandro Frangiamone, S. Mascetti, Simone Passaro, A. Taroni, Stefano Di Terlizzi, Valentina Begnozzi, E. Boccalandro, R. Gualtierotti, F. Peyvandi","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534766","url":null,"abstract":"Play4Physio is an Android mobile application that allows a player to control games with body movements, recognized through the mobile device camera. It has been specifically designed with the aim of increasing the adherence to the rehabilitation plan by children with hemophilia. Differently from existing exergames, which need to be specifically designed and developed, Play4Physio is compatible with most games that are already available on Google Play Store, effectively transforming them into exergames.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128004993","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}
Sotirios Athanasoulias, S. Sykiotis, Maria Kaselimi, Eftychios E. Protopapadakis, Nikolaos Ipiotis
{"title":"A First Approach using Graph Neural Networks on Non-Intrusive-Load-Monitoring","authors":"Sotirios Athanasoulias, S. Sykiotis, Maria Kaselimi, Eftychios E. Protopapadakis, Nikolaos Ipiotis","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534722","url":null,"abstract":"Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), equally referred as energy disaggregation, aims to identify the individual power of each appliance by relying exclusively on the aggregated household signal. Within this paper we propose a new seq2seq approach which uses Graph Neural Networks (GNN) as encoder and a Transformer based decoder. To the best of our knowledge this is the first attempt which models the problem of NILM using graphs. Specifically, our approach uses Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) to encode the aggregated signal into distinct graph nodes based on the entropy metric of the corresponding appliance’s signal representing its different operational states. Using this approach we create encodings that incorporate time-invariant dependencies within the aggregated signal forming a more holistic and meaningful representation of our data. Experimental results indicate that our approach produce satisfying or even better results on multi-state appliances like washing machine compared to state of the art methods. Although our approach performs well only on multi-operational devices, it gives an interesting dimension to the problem and proposes the first graph based approach towards NILM leading the way for applying more GNN approaches on this domain.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132832010","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}
D. Kosmopoulos, C. Constantinopoulos, M. Trigka, Dimitrios Papazachariou, K. Antzakas, V. Lampropoulou, Antonis A. Argyros, I. Oikonomidis, A. Roussos, Nikolaos Partarakis, Georgios Papagiannakis, Konstandinos Grigoriadis, Angeliki Koukouvou, Angeliki Moneda
{"title":"Museum Guidance in Sign Language: the SignGuide project","authors":"D. Kosmopoulos, C. Constantinopoulos, M. Trigka, Dimitrios Papazachariou, K. Antzakas, V. Lampropoulou, Antonis A. Argyros, I. Oikonomidis, A. Roussos, Nikolaos Partarakis, Georgios Papagiannakis, Konstandinos Grigoriadis, Angeliki Koukouvou, Angeliki Moneda","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534718","url":null,"abstract":"We present an overview of the SignGuide project. Its main goal is to develop a prototype interactive museum guide system for deaf visitors using mobile devices that will be able to receive visitors’ questions in their native (sign language) with regard to the exhibits and to provide additional content also in sign language using an avatar or video, utilizing techniques from the field of computer vision and machine learning. The paper presents the basic ideas and technologies involved as well as some preliminary results.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133507437","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}
Caterina Maidhof, Kooshan Hashemifard, Julia Offermann, M. Ziefle, Francisco Flórez-Revuelta
{"title":"Underneath Your Clothes: A Social and Technological Perspective on Nudity in The Context of AAL Technology","authors":"Caterina Maidhof, Kooshan Hashemifard, Julia Offermann, M. Ziefle, Francisco Flórez-Revuelta","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534733","url":null,"abstract":"One promising way to tackle healthcare challenges due to demographic change lies in the development of user-tailored AAL technologies. Video-based AAL technologies have the potential to provide rich information - in particular about accidents such as falls. However, as visual AAL is designed to record some parts of daily life at home, privacy concerns may comprise recordings in unwanted appearances and especially while being nude. Here, collaborative research is necessary to enable the development of user-tailored (visual) AAL technologies taking into account future users’ needs and concerns. This article presents an interdisciplinary collaboration investigating perceptions of nudity from a social perspective, and developing solutions on nudity detection from a technical perspective. Focusing on first empirical insights and a proposed methodology for level-based nudity detection, this article concludes with interdisciplinary learnings, derived guidelines, and implications for future collaborative research.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115851410","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}
Thanassis Kalvourtzis, L. Gymnopoulos, Elena Milli, S. Cobello, K. Dimitropoulos, P. Daras
{"title":"Robo-cook's Path: An online multiplayer board dietary game","authors":"Thanassis Kalvourtzis, L. Gymnopoulos, Elena Milli, S. Cobello, K. Dimitropoulos, P. Daras","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534737","url":null,"abstract":"Employing games in educational context have the potential to be a powerful means of learning or review previously taught material. The case presented in this paper is based on a multiplayer board game that was developed as an online browser game. Its gameplay is based on short dietary quizzes and minimalistic role-playing where students are acting as a team. Notably, the game's quiz content has been developed with the participation of catering school educators and targets student ages from 10 to 16 years old. Evaluation results, which were provided by educators after using the game in classroom environment, demonstrate the potential of using a dietary game in classroom context as complementary teaching/learning materials.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132402672","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}
Mariachiara Ricci, A. Cimini, S. G. Krivec, J. J. Ramos, Rodrigo Medina-García, Martina Steinböck, A. Chiaravalloti
{"title":"Quality of Life Assessment Methodology in TeNDER project","authors":"Mariachiara Ricci, A. Cimini, S. G. Krivec, J. J. Ramos, Rodrigo Medina-García, Martina Steinböck, A. Chiaravalloti","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534743","url":null,"abstract":"TeNDER is a multi-sectoral project funded by Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, developing an integrated care model to manage multi-morbidity in patients with neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, with the aim of increasing the quality of life. In order to achieve this general goal, TeNDER consortium is performing five large-scale pilots in order to test services targeting patients, their caregivers, and care professionals. The present document covers the background of the TeNDER quality of life (QoL) assessments, including the methods, contents, aims, and objectives, and the significance of the QoL assessments in the project. It contains the QoL assessment questionnaires for participants (patients, caregivers, professionals) elaborated by the TeNDER consortium. The objectives and key performance indicators (KPI) related to QoL in the TeNDER project guided the QoL indicators’ creation. The standardized 36-Item Short Form Health Survey questionnaire has been selected for the assessment of HR-QoL of patients involved in the project, by comparing the pre-piloting and the post-piloting assessment. Moreover, other aspects of QoL of the stakeholders and the working conditions of health/social professionals involved in the project are assessed with TeNDER user experience questionnaires (a group of questionnaires created by the consortium).","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133818127","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}
Varsha Rani Chawan, M. Huber, N. Burns, Kathryn Daniel
{"title":"Person Identification And Tinetti Score Prediction Using Balance Parameters : A Machine Learning Approach To Determine Fall Risk","authors":"Varsha Rani Chawan, M. Huber, N. Burns, Kathryn Daniel","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3529223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3529223","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a Machine Learning approach using sensor data from a Smart Floor aimed at addressing a substantial health problem among the elderly population, namely falls. Studies show that one-third of community-dwelling people over age 65 will experience one or more falls each year. Balance and walking patterns are useful indicators to determine the fall risk and are influenced by several parameters and conditions. The Tinetti test is widely used to assess the gait and balance in elder adults to determine the perception of balance and stability during daily activities and fear of falling. It is considered a good indicator of the fall risk. In this research, we aimed to provide a new way for fall risk reduction and early detection of the onset of chronic health conditions by creating a Machine Learning model for predicting Tinetti scores based on foot pressure data arising in common everyday activities. The goal is for this to help improve eldercare through constant monitoring. This paper focuses on designing algorithms to extract balance parameters from standing instances arising during normal everyday life and to build individualized models capable of differentiating normal or abnormal patterns for an individual. A variety of time and frequency domain parameters are built based on the center of pressure (CoP) values obtained from time-series data from a pressure monitoring floor sensor. A classification model is build using a support vector machine for distinguishing 30 individuals based solely on these balance parameters. Further, using these parameters, a regression model is built to predict the balance and the Tinetti score of an individual which is used to predict the fall risk. This novel approach for Tinetti score prediction by just using balance analysis could be used in isolation or in combination with other assessments to assess health changes and to prevent falls before they happen.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133496754","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}
Martin Schobesberger, Jaroslava Huber, S. Grünberger, Michael Haslgrübler, A. Ferscha
{"title":"Designing Proactive Safety Systems for Industrial Workers Using Intelligent Mechanisms","authors":"Martin Schobesberger, Jaroslava Huber, S. Grünberger, Michael Haslgrübler, A. Ferscha","doi":"10.1145/3529190.3534775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534775","url":null,"abstract":"In the process of increasing industrial productivity, the aspect of worker safety plays an important but often neglected part. The following workshop paper discusses potential implementations of a priorly designed concept of a HumanAI based assistive and proactive safety system in a specific industrial use case. The goal is to address safety threats which occur during a polymer recycling process (shredding, melting, and producing plastic granulate) during human-machine interaction by encouraging a meaningful transition from the more traditional view of safety (Safety-I), to a more modern and flexible approach to safety (Safety-II), potentially applying intelligent systems. The principles of Safety-I and Safety-II as well as the STOP principle are explained alongside general considerations for safety and assistance systems. This introduction is followed by a detailed description and safety analysis of the chosen representative real-world use case before a transition in the STOP principle from Safety-I to Safety-II is proposed and illustrated in an in depth example. The contribution of this workshop paper is an introduction of Safety-II mechanisms to replace or enhance established Safety-I mechanisms in the STOP principle to increase worker safety.","PeriodicalId":439387,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115701741","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}