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Title:
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CREATING TOOLS AND TRIAL DATA SETS FOR SMART HOME RESEARCHERS: EXPERIMENTING ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING WITH NORMAL SUBJECTS TO COMPARE WITH ALZHEIMERS PATIENTS |
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Author(s):
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H. Laprise, J. Bouchard, B. Bouchard, A. Bouzouane |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-16-8 |
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Editors:
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Mário Macedo |
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Year:
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2010 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Experimental Tools for Smart Home, Activities of Daily Living, Open database, Trial Data Sets, 3D Simulation tool. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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143 |
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Last Page:
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150 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Healthcare, due to the aging of world populations, requires new technologies to help assisting the needs of elders. The smart home paradigm is one of the promising new trends of research aiming to bring socially and economically viable solutions to this challenge. As the technologies become more mature, many smart home researchers found themselves in an urgent need of proper data allowing them to conduct satisfactory experiments. Because of the existing financial, logistic, interdisciplinary and ethical challenges, the use of ecological data (i.e. data gathered from clinical trials) is often shelved, to the benefit of fictive toy problems. To contribute solving this issue, we present, in this paper, the design and results of a simple experiment with few activities conducted with real subjects and which is adapted to the needs of scientists. Moreover, we will show how these results are actually used to build an open source database including various ecologic scripts, models of activities with sociological differences (ex. age or sex) that must be considered, and a set of pre-recorded scenarios. This database will come with a smart home simulation tool able to visually reproduce the behavior observed in trials. The goal is to give adequate and concrete experimental tools to smart home researchers. We are also presenting our two-phase experimental protocol. The first phase has been completed and consists of experimenting on normal individuals to serve as a baseline for the second phase. This first phase have outlined several trends of differences in the completion time depending on the personal characteristics of the participants, differences that must be considered when adapting smart home technology. The second phase will consist of the same protocol, but with Alzheimers patients as participants. We are planning to begin the second phase in the spring 2010. |
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