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SenseCare: Using Affective Computing to Manage and Care for the Emotional Wellbeing of Older People

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This paper discusses an opportunity for using affective computing modalities to support the monitoring of emotional wellbeing of older people. The ageing population is escalating and is associated with an increase in the number of persons with dementia. It is also reported that older people can suffer from social isolation and that people with dementia can experience a range of negative emotions such as anxiety and depression. We present a model to care for a person’s emotional wellbeing in the home using multiple-modalities such as video, audio, electrodermal activity and photoplethysmography.

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Funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in Horizon 2020.

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  1. University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK

    Raymond R. Bond, Huiru Zheng, Haiying Wang, Maurice D. Mulvenna & Patrick McAllister

  2. Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland

    Kieran Delaney, Paul Walsh & Alphonsus Keary

  3. Inmark Group, Madrid, Spain

    Rubén Riestra & Sabina Guaylupo

  4. Research Institute for Telecommunication and Cooperation (FTK), Dortmund, Germany

    Matthias Hemmje & Jana Becker

  5. Fernuni Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Felix Engel

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  1. Applied Informatics in mHealth, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece

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  2. Budapest University of Technology, Budapest, Hungary

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  3. University of Glasgow, Glaswow, United Kingdom

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Bond, R.R. et al. (2017). SenseCare: Using Affective Computing to Manage and Care for the Emotional Wellbeing of Older People. In: Giokas, K., Bokor, L., Hopfgartner, F. (eds) eHealth 360°. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 181. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_42

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