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João Tavares, J. Barbosa, C. Costa, A. Yamin, R. Real
{"title":"Hefestos: a model for ubiquitous accessibility support","authors":"João Tavares, J. Barbosa, C. Costa, A. Yamin, R. Real","doi":"10.1145/2413097.2413131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2413097.2413131","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the Hefestos Model, designed to provide ubiquitous accessibility. The project aims at supporting accessibility for People With Disability (PWD) and elderly in various situations of their everyday life. Offering context awareness, user profiles and trails management, the model is a base for applying assistive technologies that fulfills accessibility needs. Moreover, in the proposed model, we devised an ontology. Besides the benefits of intrinsic semantic representation, the use of an ontology fosters future integration with others solutions. We also present a case study based on a prototype, which was developed to evaluate the model. This assessment used a smart wheelchair, operated by a paraplegic person, which is under development at University of the Sinos Valley (Unisinos).","PeriodicalId":91811,"journal":{"name":"The ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"106 1","pages":"27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80843171","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":"Light-ECV: an intelligent lightweight framework for embedded computer vision applications","authors":"A. El-Sayed, M. Elhelw","doi":"10.1145/2413097.2413142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2413097.2413142","url":null,"abstract":"Recent developments in embedded systems open up a new realm of computer vision applications in surveillance and healthcare delivery, etc. However, such applications require high computational resources, which is challenging for embedded devices that are characterized by constrained processing power and limited memory capacity. In this paper we present a novel intelligent framework that enables building computer vision applications with optimal throughput and maintaining the performance of such applications at run-time.","PeriodicalId":91811,"journal":{"name":"The ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"19 1","pages":"35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77325896","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":"Vibrotactile haptic feedback for human-robot interaction in leader-follower tasks","authors":"S. Scheggi, Francesco Chinello, D. Prattichizzo","doi":"10.1145/2413097.2413161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2413097.2413161","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we explore a vibrotactile feedback paradigm which allows the human to intuitively interact in human-robot applications. In particular we focus on a haptic bracelet which helps the human to move along trajectories that are feasible for the leader-follower formation tasks. The bracelet consists of three vibrating motors circling the forearm and represents a non invasive way to provide essential information to the human. Experiments performed on a public of 15 subjects revealed the effectiveness of the proposed device.","PeriodicalId":91811,"journal":{"name":"The ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"111 1","pages":"51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79622487","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 role of tea parties to elicit technology requirements to support the mobility of older adults","authors":"L. Coventry, E. Jones","doi":"10.1145/2413097.2413117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2413097.2413117","url":null,"abstract":"Mobility is fundamental to aging well, maintaining independence and quality of life. Physical mobility is a fundamental component of overall mobility. This paper presents our \"technology tea party\" methodology. We have used this method to explore older adults' reaction to utilizing different technologies to maintain their mobility, in particular, games consoles to promote exercise at home. At our tea party, participants experienced problems with initially getting started with the console but with minimal support were able to interact with the system and start to explore the benefits they could gain from using such a system. They saw the benefits not only as exercise but also as promoting social interaction. We are now using this method in the design process for an \"intelligent\" walking aid to improve the ability of older adults to walk around shopping centres. In this paper we advocate the involvement of older adults throughout the design process and we present tea parties as a potential method to use in early stages to elicit requirements.","PeriodicalId":91811,"journal":{"name":"The ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"4 1","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90142809","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":"Creating and benchmarking a new dataset for physical activity monitoring","authors":"Attila Reiss, D. Stricker","doi":"10.1145/2413097.2413148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2413097.2413148","url":null,"abstract":"Physical activity monitoring has recently become an important field in wearable computing research. However, there is a lack of a commonly used, standard dataset and established benchmarking problems. In this work, a new dataset for physical activity monitoring --- recorded from 9 subjects, wearing 3 inertial measurement units and a heart rate monitor, and performing 18 different activities --- is created and made publicly available. Moreover, 4 classification problems are benchmarked on the dataset, using a standard data processing chain and 5 different classifiers. The benchmark shows the difficulty of the classification tasks and exposes some challenges, defined by e.g. a high number of activities and personalization.","PeriodicalId":91811,"journal":{"name":"The ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"50 1","pages":"40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82249640","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}
Alexios Kotsifakos, P. Papapetrou, J. Hollmén, D. Gunopulos, V. Athitsos
{"title":"A survey of query-by-humming similarity methods","authors":"Alexios Kotsifakos, P. Papapetrou, J. Hollmén, D. Gunopulos, V. Athitsos","doi":"10.1145/2413097.2413104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2413097.2413104","url":null,"abstract":"Performing similarity search in large databases is a problem of particular interest in many communities, such as music, database, and data mining. Although several solutions have been proposed in the literature that perform well in many application domains, there is no best method to solve this kind of problem in a Query-By-Humming (QBH) application. In QBH the goal is to find the song(s) most similar to a hummed query in an efficient manner. In this paper, we focus on providing a brief overview of the representations to encode music pieces, and also on the methods that have been proposed for QBH or other similarly defined problems.","PeriodicalId":91811,"journal":{"name":"The ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"25 1","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88554956","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":"Geospatial data in library collections","authors":"Ifigenia Vardakosta, S. Kapidakis","doi":"10.1145/2413097.2413139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2413097.2413139","url":null,"abstract":"While several surveys and studies focus on developing GIS services in libraries, however, there is no recent research concerning the data that academic libraries organize and offer to their users. This study tries to cover this gap, as we examine the types and forms of digital geospatial data held by academic libraries worldwide, after an investigation carried out to their web pages during June-August 2011.\u0000 Among the 331 researched libraries only 136 were found providing GIS services while 24 of them had geospatial collection development policies.\u0000 The results of this exploratory study indicate an overwhelming acceptance of various sources (e.g. digital maps, spatial data, remote sending files, statistical data, satellite images etc) and formats in academic libraries derived from public and commercial sector, without free and open data being excluded. Furthermore, the specific kinds of collections are related to the provided services, and enhance added value services in academic libraries.","PeriodicalId":91811,"journal":{"name":"The ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":"33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88111873","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":"How busy is my supervisor?: Detecting the visits in the office of my supervisor using a sensor network","authors":"A. N. Aicha, G. Englebienne, B. Kröse","doi":"10.1145/2413097.2413112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2413097.2413112","url":null,"abstract":"Existing research on the recognition of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) from simple sensor networks assumes that only a single person is present in the home. In real life there will be situations where the inhabitant receives visits from family members or professional health care givers. In such cases activity recognition is unreliable. In this paper, we investigate the problem of detecting multiple persons in an environment equipped with a sensor network consisting of binary sensors. We conduct a real-life experiment for detection of visits in the office of the supervisor where the office is equipped with a video camera to record the ground truth. We collected data during two months and used two models, a Naive Bayes Classifier and a Hidden Markov Model for a visitor detection. An evaluation of these two models shows that we achieve an accuracy of 83% with the NBC and an accuracy of 92% with a HMM, respectively.","PeriodicalId":91811,"journal":{"name":"The ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"191 1","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75838520","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}
Y. Miché, Tatiana Chistiakova, Anton Akusok, A. Lendasse, Rui Nian, A. Guillén
{"title":"Fast variable selection for memetracker phrases time series prediction","authors":"Y. Miché, Tatiana Chistiakova, Anton Akusok, A. Lendasse, Rui Nian, A. Guillén","doi":"10.1145/2413097.2413156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2413097.2413156","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a methodology using a fast variable selection as a modified version of the Forward-Backward algorithm. This methodology is adapted to the specificities of the data used: very small number of samples and high number of variables. Such data is generated using underlying dependencies and seasonality assumptions, from Meme phrases volume data. By the use of a resampling technique along with the proposed variable selection scheme, significant results are obtained, and the test Normalized Mean Square Error performances are improved. The results indicate that with the assumptions made on the data structure, variable selection is desirable. Also, the obtained information on the selected variables seem to cluster the time series in two very different classes: a set of approximately 600 series, which yield good NMSE, and seem to require very similar sets of variables for the prediction; and another set of 300--400 series, for which only the previous series value is of interest for the prediction. This first analysis clearly illustrates the future need to perform a more thorough analysis of the selected variables for each of the batch of series.\u0000 Also, taking a close look at the possible dependences between the series inside a batch should give information as to why and how they are similar and have found themselves to be grouped under the same batch.","PeriodicalId":91811,"journal":{"name":"The ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"194 1 1","pages":"47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78326757","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":"A survey on multi person identification and localization","authors":"Shahina Ferdous, K. Vyas, F. Makedon","doi":"10.1145/2413097.2413143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2413097.2413143","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a survey of technology and algorithms used to identify and localize multiple people simultaneously in an assistive environment. The survey summarizes localization approaches based on video cameras and RFID, as well as describes identification methods based on RFID tags or wearable devices. The paper also describes state-of-the-art multimodal data fusion methods that estimate the identification and location of every person more precisely.","PeriodicalId":91811,"journal":{"name":"The ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA ... International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"26 1","pages":"36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72940503","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}