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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter
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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Article
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...