AI*AAL.it 2014

1st Italian Workshop on

Artificial Intelligence for

Ambient Assisted Living

Providing Physical Autonomy to

Disabled People through

Telemonitoring and Home SupportFelip Miralles, Eloisa Vargiu, Stefan Dauwalder,

Eloi Casals, José Alejandro Cordero

TBI is a global public health problem affecting all populations and is predicted to become the third leading cause of mortality

and disability globally by 2020

People may be left with a range of residual problems which impact on physical function,

communication, cognition, emotion and behavior

The person who has experienced the TBI may experience changes in roles, relationships and living

situations

The Context

To provide physical autonomy to disabled people

BCI

The Goal

Home Support

Telemonitoring

Context-awareness

BCI

A set of flexible and extensible services to be controlled by the BCI

Smart Home controlo Turning on/off an electrical device

o Controlling a multimedia player

Cognitive stimulationo Performing cognitive rehabilitation tasks

o Painting

Web accesso Browsing the Internet

o E-mailing

o Visiting social networks

BCI

BCI

Telemonitoring

indoors activitieso Percentage of time in each room

o Time spent watching TV / playing games / …

outdoor activitieso Covered distance by “walking”

o Covered distance by transportation

Indoor and outdoor activities as well as BCI use at home

BCI useo Session time and duration

o Used services and number of selections

Telemonitoring

Telemonitoring

Telemonitoring

Telemonitoring

Telemonitoring

Home Support

Smart home devices, which give control over the built environment, and free standing electrical goods controlled by BCI

Turning on/off deviceso Light

o Fan

o Radio

Controlling a TVo Volume

o Channels

Control an IP camerao Movement

o Direction

Controlling a multimedia playero Photos

o Videos

Home Support

Context Awareness

The overall system provides personalization and adaptation: startingfrom the information of the context, triggers and rules may be defined

Context Awareness

Automatically generatedo the user that every night at 7.00 PM watches

the TV

the system automatically displays a TV

shortcut in the BCI matrix

Created by the caregivero at 9.00 PM the user is on the bedroom

the system has to turn off the light

Created by the therapisto the user stays on bed more than

10 hours

the systems sends an alert to the

therapist

A 40-years-old healthy woman in Barcelona

Sensorso Presence (in each room)

o Main door

Monitored period

Indoors habits

Results

Indoor habits

Full-time workday

Part-time workday

Results

Sensorso Presence (in each room)

o Main door

o Smartphone (Moves)

Monitored period

Mobility

Results

A 40-years-old healthy woman in Barcelonao Each day at 7:00 PM she has to answer by mail to the following

questions

Mobility

Results

Categories Adopted metrics

o 𝜋 =𝑇𝑃

𝑇𝑃+𝐹𝑃

o 𝜌 =𝑇𝑃

𝑇𝑃+𝐹𝑁

o 𝐹1 = 2𝜋∙𝜌

𝜋+𝜌

1 2 3 4 5

Low High

Normal

Mobility

Results

Home support

Results

The system is currently running at healthy-users’ homes in Barcelona. Experiments with end-users in Belfast started two weeks ago!

Where we are?

A telemonitoring and home support system for people with

severe disabilities

Personalization and adaption are provided depending on the

context

The system is currently running in Belfast at 4 end-users’

home

The work is part of the BackHome EU project

Closing remarks

Expected results and actions

o Behavior recognition

Personalization and adaptation of the system

o Alarm triggering

Notification to therapist(s)

o Quality of life assessment (mobility and mood)

Notification to the user and her therapist(s)

What’s next?

Web

• www.Backhome-FP7.eu

LinkedIn

• BackHome-FP7-Research-Innovation

Twitter

• @BackHomeFP7

Youtube

• BackHomeFP7

evargiu@bdigital.org