PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150332
Jennifer Williams
{"title":"Keynote: Speech and Audio Capabilities in Our Everyday Lives - Can it be Trusted?","authors":"Jennifer Williams","doi":"10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126244454","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}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150363
Gabriele Civitarese
{"title":"Keynote: Data Scarcity in Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition","authors":"Gabriele Civitarese","doi":"10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150363","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127779820","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}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1109/percomworkshops48775.2020.9156263
M. A. U. Alam, N. Alshurafa, A. Salman, Abhishek Mukherji, Hironobu Takagi
{"title":"Panel: Evolving IoT Tech Enables Aging in Place","authors":"M. A. U. Alam, N. Alshurafa, A. Salman, Abhishek Mukherji, Hironobu Takagi","doi":"10.1109/percomworkshops48775.2020.9156263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/percomworkshops48775.2020.9156263","url":null,"abstract":"U.S. Census Bureau reports, by the year 2035, citizens of 65 and older will outnumber those under the age of 18 for the first time in U.S. history which will be approximately 78 million in number versus 76 million under the age of 18. Along with this projected demographic shift will come new challenges for the U.S. healthcare system for older adults who prefer living at home to uprooting themselves to an assisted-living facility. To accommodate the needs and desires of these valued adults, the healthcare space will need to rethink how it delivers care.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133556065","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}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2017-03-13DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917536
M. A. U. Alam
{"title":"Context-aware multi-inhabitant functional and physiological health assessment in smart home environment","authors":"M. A. U. Alam","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917536","url":null,"abstract":"Recognizing the human activity, behavior and physiological symptoms in smart home environments is of utmost importance for the functional, physiological and cognitive health assessment of the older adults. Unprecedented data from everyday devices such as smart wristbands, smart ornaments, smartphones, and ambient sensors provide opportunities for activity mining and inference, but pose fundamental research challenges in data processing, physiological feature extraction, activity learning and inference in the presence of multiple inhabitants. In this thesis, we develop micro-activity driven macro-activity recognition approaches while considering the underpinning spatiotemporal constraints and correlations across multiple inhabitants. We design novel signal processing and machine learning algorithms to detect physiological symptoms and infer macro-level activity of the inhabitants, respectively. We combine these activity recognition methodologies along with the physiological health assessment approaches to quantify the functional, behavioral, and cognitive health of the older adults. real-time data collected data from a continuing care retirement community center (IRB #HP-00064387) helped us to evaluate, compare, and benchmark our proposed computational approaches with the clinical tools used extensively for functional and cognitive health assessment.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129914963","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}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917641
Nirmalya Roy
{"title":"Keynote: Wearable and IoT for cognitive health assessment: Significance and challenges","authors":"Nirmalya Roy","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917641","url":null,"abstract":"The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the U.S. population of people aged 65 and up will grow more than double in between 2010 and 2050. The market for remote patient monitoring is expected to grow from $10.6 billion in 2012 to $21.2 billion in 2017. This growing societal and economical needs revitalize the work on technology-assisted proactive and preventive health monitoring in smart home environments. In recent time the proliferation of commodity smart healthcare appliances and stand-alone and integrated sensing devices (Internet of Things) make it increasingly easier to ubiquitously and continuously monitor an individuals health-related vital signals, activities, and behaviors to provide just-in-time interventions for the aging population. Nevertheless, developing reliable and clinically equivalent point-of-care technologies to perform automated health assessment and intervention remain challenging. In this talk, I will discuss how signal processing and machine learning techniques help analyze the activity and physiological signals to gauge the cognitive and behavioral health of older adults. I will also discuss the comparative performance of technology-guided algorithmic methodology with clinically-driven survey, observation, and performance-based measurements. I will conclude the talk highlighting our experiences of deploying this smart home health service systems for Alzheimer's patients living in retirement community centers.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133385856","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}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917582
R. Stock
{"title":"User responses to social robots - experimental insights and psychophysiological measures","authors":"R. Stock","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917582","url":null,"abstract":"Companies in China, Japan and USA started introducing social robots at the customer interface in various industries, such as hospitality services, retailing, and health care services. In contrast to production robots, social robots are humanoid and communicate with speech and gestures with the primary purpose to interact with humans. While the prevalence of social robots is increasing, knowledge about the user acceptance of these robots is scarce. Based on an experimental series, potential stressors as well as emotional and behavioral user responses to the interaction with a social robot are examined. The experimental setting was a hotel reception, in which participants had to interact with the social robot (i.e., the humanoid robot Pepper) in the role of a hotel guest. Participants' psychological responses to the social robot were assessed via self-assessments of the participants. Beyond these standard measures, external raters evaluated the participants' responses by evaluating their facial expressions and gestures on the basis of the video recordings of the experimental procedure. Furthermore, a non-intrusive wearable device, Empatica E4, was used to measure physiological data, in particular heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV) and electrodermal activity (EDA). Results show that participants were able to clearly recognize robotic emotions and behaviors. Furthermore, we could reveal similar patterns within a human-robot-interaction as compared to human-human-interactions.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123642870","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}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2017-03-01DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917602
Gang Zhou
{"title":"Pushing down user information to enhance smart device system design","authors":"Gang Zhou","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917602","url":null,"abstract":"Recent popularity in smart devices, for example smartphones, has created an increased interest in carrying small devices with limited battery capacity. Unfortunately, smartphones are notorious for consuming energy far too quickly. Although certain advances have been made on the hardware side such as better batteries, this talk is focused on improving energy management software in the lower layer system to make better use of existing batteries. For modern smartphone, a major cause of battery drain is wireless communications. Most smartphones come equipped with multiple radio transceivers, such as Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi and 4G, among which power hungry WiFi or 4G radios are required for access to the Internet. The frequency of use of these radios is spurred by the popularity of smartphone applications, and many applications require the phone to be constantly connected to the Internet. The wide availability of applications, for instance the Android Market has over 700K registered applications, shows that the need to save smartphone radio energy is highly relevant and urgent today.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130710268","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}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2016-03-14DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2016.7457124
S. Jha
{"title":"A changing landscape: Securing the Internet of Things (IoT): Keynote talk","authors":"S. Jha","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2016.7457124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2016.7457124","url":null,"abstract":"First part of this talk will discuss how the community is converging towards the IoT vision having worked in wireless sensor networking and Machine-2-Machine (M2M) communication. This will follow a general discussion of security challenges in IoT. Finally I will discuss some results from an ongoing project on security of bodyworn devices. Wireless bodyworn sensing devices are becoming popular for fitness, sports training and personalized healthcare applications. Securing the data generated by these devices is essential if they are to be integrated into the current health infrastructure and employed in medical applications. In this talk, I will discuss a mechanism to secure data provenance for these devices by exploiting symmetric spatio-temporal characteristics of the wireless link between two communicating parties. Our solution enables both parties to generate closely matching ‘link’ fingerprints, which uniquely associate a data session with a wireless link such that a third party, at a later date, can verify the links the data was communicated on. These fingerprints are very hard for an eavesdropper to forge, lightweight compared to traditional provenance mechanisms, and allow for interesting security properties such as accountability and non-repudiation. I will present our solution with experiments using bodyworn devices in scenarios approximating actual device deployment.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128235575","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}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2016-03-14DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2016.7457023
Qi Han, S. Loke
{"title":"PerCom PhD forum 2016: Eightieth annual PhD forum on pervasive computing and communications, 2016 - Welcome and committees: Welcome message from the PhD forum chairs","authors":"Qi Han, S. Loke","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2016.7457023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2016.7457023","url":null,"abstract":"We are pleased to introduce the Ph.D. Forum on Pervasive Computing and Connmmications, 2016. The Ph.D. Forum provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present their ongoing disse11ation research and receive valuable feedback from reputed intemational researchers. The Forum is organized in two phases. During the first phase the students participate in a day-long pre-conference workshop, present and discuss their research agenda with a mock thesis committee, and attend two invited talks on how to do good systems research in pervasive computing. During the second phase the students provide a one minute 'pitch' on their research and then resent their research at a poster session during the main conference. After a careful review process, we accepted 8 papers for presentation at the Forum out of 11 submitted. The proceedings includes a two-page abstract of each accepted submission.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122505334","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}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2016-03-14DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2016.7457107
C. Bettini
{"title":"On the impact of activity recognition in monitoring cognitive decline","authors":"C. Bettini","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2016.7457107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2016.7457107","url":null,"abstract":"The world senior population is projected to douDle as a percentage over the whole population in the next decades. In order to preserve or improve the quality of life of this population, as well as to keep healthcare costs sustainable, it is important to better support their ability of independent living. Cognitive decline is a major threat to independent living; it may be experienced in normal aging but it may also lead to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and more serious neurodegenerative cognitive disorders. Early detection of cognitive decline, accurate diagnosis and monitoring of its evolution for early intervention are a priority. Researchers have found that subtle differences in performing instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) as well as the recognition of subtle errors while performing IADLs may be useful for MCI diagnosis as well as to differentiate different forms of cognitive disorders. However, occasionally performing ability tests in equipped rooms on medical premises has several shortcomings including cost and reliability of results. Pervasive computing coupled with intelligent data analysis can have a major role in this application domain by continuous monitoring of activities at home during daily life. This idea has been at the core of several recent research projects. The main challenges that we are facing are: a) reliability, unobtrusiveness and affordability of the sensor infrastructure, b) precision and robustness of techniques for IADL recognition, c) effectiveness of algorithms for recognizing fine-grained abnormal behaviors identified by clinicians as relevant indicators, d) identification of relevant patterns through long-term data analysis, e) privacy-awareness of data acquisition and management, f) effectiveness of visualization and interaction tools for clinicians. This talk will discuss the above challenges, report the experience on using hybrid statistical and knowledge-based techniques for addressing the recognition tasks, and identify critical aspects still to be investigated.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130361262","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}