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Activity Monitoring Systems in Health Care

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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 approaches for the monitoring of simple actions are discussed, like falls or therapies. After that, the recognition of more complex activities is discussed. A number of applications for the care givers is presented. The chapter concludes with a section on acceptance and privacy.

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The research reported in this paper was supported by the Foundation Innovation Alliance SIA with funding from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), in the framework of the ‘Smart Systems for Smart Services’ project, and through the Pieken in de Delta-program by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the cities of Utrecht and Lelystad and the provinces of Utrecht, Noord-Holland and Flevoland in the framework of the ‘Zorgen voor Morgen’ project.

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Kröse, B., van Oosterhout, T., van Kasteren, T. (2011). Activity Monitoring Systems in Health Care. In: Salah, A., Gevers, T. (eds) Computer Analysis of Human Behavior. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-994-9_12

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