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This paper presents a monitor assistant system for detection of dangerous events and health diagnostics for patients with dementia. The proposed framework brings together three different types of ambient intelligence: (i) sensors for detecting life-threatening events that can occur at home, like falls and anomalies in vital signs predicting risk of myocardial infarction; (ii) sensors placed under bed-posts for detecting unhealthy poor movement while patients are lying on the bed which can cause bedsores (decubitus); and (iii) analysis of the current cognitive state of patients with dementia by means of serious computer games. This paper presents the framework, methods and sensors used by our system to assist patients with dementia by triggering different type of alarm signals informing which patient needs what and how some help could be provided.
J.-E. Navarro-B. was with the GFaI, and is now with moovel GmbH.
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We gratefully acknowledge support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (Bundesminesterium für Wirtschaft und Energie) for financial supporting the ZIM-KF project AMENAMIN - ambient energy and ambient intelligence for senior citizens in need of assistance [8]. We thank Dr. H.-M. Voigt and Dr. W. Harder, both former heads of the department of Adaptive Modelling and Pattern Recognition at the GFaI, for their leadership, support and contribution throughout the project AMENAMIN. We thank also Prof. J. Gallinat, (former professor of the Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin) for his contribution to the project AMENAMIN. We also thank our partners involved in the AMENAMIN project: the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, EnOcean GmbH, alpha-board GmbH, SHK Spree Hybrid &Kommuniationstechnik GmbH and SMI GmbH. Finally, special thanks to Prof. Friedrich Porsdorf (Kunsthochschule Berlin) for the graphical design of the serious computer game.
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Navarro-Barrientos, J.E., Herfert, D., Iwainsky, A. (2015). Towards Ambient Intelligent Care and Assistance Systems for Patients with Dementia. In: Pichardo Lagunas, O., Herrera Alcántara, O., Arroyo Figueroa, G. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications. MICAI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9414. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27101-9_22
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