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Open AccessOptimizing Adaptive Notifications in Mobile Health Interventions Systems: Reinforcement Learning from a Data-driven Behavioral Simulator
Mobile health (mHealth) intervention systems can employ adaptive strategies to interact with users. Instead of designing such complex strategies manually, reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to adaptively ...
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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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Open AccessEffectiveness of sensor monitoring in an occupational therapy rehabilitation program for older individuals after hip fracture, the SO-HIP trial: study protocol of a three-arm stepped wedge cluster randomized trial
The performance of activities of daily living (ADL) at home is important for the recovery of older individuals after hip fracture. However, 20–90% of these individuals lose ADL function and never fully recover...
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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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Analysis of Home Health Sensor Data
This chapter focuses on the analysis of data that is collected from sensors in the home environment. First we discuss the need for a good model that relates sensor data (or features derived from the data) to i...
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RARE: people detection in crowded passages by range image reconstruction
In this paper, we address the problem of people detection and tracking in crowded scenes using range cameras. We propose a new method for people detection and localisation based on the combination of backgroun...
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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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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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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Analysis of Home Health Sensor Data
This chapter focuses on the analysis of data that is collected from sensors in the home environment. First we discuss the need for a good model that relates sensor data (or features derived from the data) to i...
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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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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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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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Open AccessAssessing Acceptance of Assistive Social Agent Technology by Older Adults: the Almere Model
This paper proposes a model of technology acceptance that is specifically developed to test the acceptance of assistive social agents by elderly users. The research in this paper develops and tests an adaptati...
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Open AccessRelating conversational expressiveness to social presence and acceptance of an assistive social robot
Exploring the relationship between social presence, conversational expressiveness, and robot acceptance, we set up an experiment with a robot in an eldercare institution, comparing a more and less social condi...
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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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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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Neural Q-learning
In this paper we introduce a novel neural reinforcement learning method. Unlike existing methods, our approach does not need a model of the system and can be trained directly using the measurements of the syst...
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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...
