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Development of Web-Based Platform for Privacy Protective Avatar Mediated Distance-Care

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Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health (MindCare 2015)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 604))

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We propose a web-based platform for privacy-protected avatar mediated distant-care. The system can avateer an elderly person based on their articular angles acquired by a motion capture system, and render the whole body animation of the avatar on a web-browser. The avatar-mediated architecture design allow caregivers to observe the elderly persons’ behavior all day long, without violating their privacy. In addition, we will show an example implementation integrating multiple sensors in the platform. By integrating multiple sensors into the platform, caregivers can observe the avatar with the elderly person’s health-related status. The implemented system showed the low communication bandwidth dependency, and sufficient frame-rate for the animation to be smoothly seen.

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This research was partially supported by Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE).

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  1. Department of Integrated Information Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yu Kobayashi, Dai Hasegawa & Hiroshi Sakuta

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

    Shinichi Shirakawa

  3. School of Nursing, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan

    Eijun Nakayama

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  1. Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milano, Italy

    Silvia Serino

  2. Telefonica I+D, Barcelona, Spain

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  3. The Centre for Research and Technology, Thessalomiki/Thermi, Greece

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  4. Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

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Kobayashi, Y., Hasegawa, D., Shirakawa, S., Sakuta, H., Nakayama, E. (2016). Development of Web-Based Platform for Privacy Protective Avatar Mediated Distance-Care. In: Serino, S., Matic, A., Giakoumis, D., Lopez, G., Cipresso, P. (eds) Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health. MindCare 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 604. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32270-4_13

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