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A Mechanism for Nominating Video Clips to Provide Assistance for Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

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Ambient Assisted Living. ICT-based Solutions in Real Life Situations (IWAAL 2015)

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Abstract

Current assistive smart homes have adopted a relatively rigid approach to modeling activities. The use of these activity models have introduced factors which block adoption of smart home technology. To address this, goal driven smart homes have been proposed, these are based upon more flexible activity structures. However, this goal-driven approach does have a disadvantage where flexibility in this activity modeling can lead to difficulty providing illustrative guidance. To address this, a video analysis and nomination mechanism is required to provide suitable assistive clips for a given goal. This paper introduces a novel mechanism for nominating a suitable video clip given a pool of automatically generated metadata. This mechanism was then evaluated using a voice based assistant application and a tool emulating assistance requests by a goal-driven smart home. The initial evaluation produced promising results.

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    Personal IADL Assistant, PIA – EU AAL Funded Research Project (AAL-2012-5-033), available at: http://www.pia-project.org/.

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    NFC, Near Field Communication – a short range wireless communication technology.

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This work has been conducted in the context of the EU AAL PIA project (AAL-2012-5-033).The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions from all members of the PIA consortium.

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    Joseph Rafferty, Chris Nugent & Jun Liu

  2. School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    Liming Chen

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Rafferty, J., Nugent, C., Liu, J., Chen, L. (2015). A Mechanism for Nominating Video Clips to Provide Assistance for Instrumental Activities of Daily Living. In: Cleland, I., Guerrero, L., Bravo, J. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. ICT-based Solutions in Real Life Situations. IWAAL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9455. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26410-3_7

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