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Co-Creating Hybrid Toys as an Approach to Understand Children’s Needs in Play Experience
Using hybrid toys to deliver physical therapy is an innovative way to engage children in personalised healthcare. However, there is an urgency to understand children’s needs in their digital-physical play expe...
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FIT Decision Aid: Matching the Needs of People with Dementia and Caregivers with Products and Services
Although there exist various product and services to support people with dementia in their everyday activities and challenges, people with dementia and their informal caregivers experience many unmet needs. In...
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Happy Running?
This paper explores a method for deducing the affective state of runners using his/her movements. The movements are measured on the arm using a smartphone’s built-in accelerometer. Multiple features are derive...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Are You Doing? Enabling Older Adults to Enrich Sensor Data with Subjective Input
Technology designed to sense behavior, often neglects to directly incorporate subjective input from (elderly) users. This paper presents experiences in deploying technology that considers the elderly user an...
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Continuous Gait Velocity Analysis Using Ambient Sensors in a Smart Home
We present a method for measuring gait velocity using data from an existing ambient sensor network. Gait velocity is an important predictor of fall risk and functional health. In contrast to other approaches t...
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Reducing Dementia Related Wandering Behaviour with an Interactive Wall
People suffering from dementia often have problems with way finding and feel restless. In this paper we present an interactive wall developed for decreasing the amount of wandering behaviour of people sufferin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Living Labs as Educational Tool for Ambient Intelligence
The way that innovation is currently done requires a new research methodology that enables co-creation and frequent, iterative evaluation in real-world settings. This paper describes the employment of the livi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ambient Monitoring from an Elderly-Centred Design Perspective: What, Who and How
This paper describes a participatory design-oriented study of an ambient assisted living system for monitoring the daily activities of elderly residents. The work presented addresses these questions 1) What da...
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Activity Monitoring Systems in Health Care
This chapter focuses on activity monitoring in a home setting for health care purposes. First the most current sensing systems are described, which consist of wearable and ambient sensors. Then several approac...
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People Detection Using Multiple Sensors on a Mobile Robot
This chapter considers the important problem of dealing with multiple sensors. An approach for combining information from multiple sensors for people detection on a mobile robot is described. A person will be ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tracking Humans
In a human-inhabited environment it is essential that a robot which interacts with humans is able to keep track of them when they move around in the environment. This is not an easy job. Multiple people may be...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Coordinating Principal Component Analyzers
Mixtures of Principal Component Analyzers can be used to model high dimensional data that lie on or near a low dimensional manifold. By linearly map** the PCA subspaces to one global low dimensional space, w...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Soft k-Segments Algorithm for Principal Curves
We propose a new method to find principal curves for data sets. The method repeats three steps until a stop** criterion is met. In the first step, k (unconnected) line segments are fitted on the data. The secon...
