Proactively guiding patients through ADL via knowledge-based and context-driven activity recognition

William Van Woensel, Samina Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

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Abstract

Assisted Ambient Living (AAL) focuses on self-sufficiency, assisting disabled people to perform activities of daily living (ADL) by automating assistive actions in smart environments. Importantly, AAL provides opportunities for dynamically guiding patients with a cognitive decline through an ADL. Activity recognition is a pivotal task since it allows detecting when an ADL is started by recognizing its constituent activities. When dealing cognitive decline, activity recognition should also be able to detect when activities are performed incorrectly-e.g., performed out-of-order, at the wrong location or time, or with the wrong objects (e.g., utensils)-which is nevertheless not a common goal in activity recognition. Moreover, it should be able to cope with nonuniform ways of performing the ADL that are nevertheless correct. We present a novel knowledge-driven activity recognition approach, which employs semantic reasoning to recognize both correct and incorrect actions, based on the ADL workflow as well as associated environment context.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMEDINFO 2019
Subtitle of host publicationHealth and Wellbeing e-Networks for All - Proceedings of the 17th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
EditorsBrigitte Seroussi, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Brigitte Seroussi
PublisherIOS Press
Pages863-867
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781643680026
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 21 2019
Event17th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, MEDINFO 2019 - Lyon, France
Duration: Aug 25 2019Aug 30 2019

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume264
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Conference

Conference17th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, MEDINFO 2019
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityLyon
Period8/25/198/30/19

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics
  • Health Information Management

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