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Quality of Life Evaluation of Elderly and Disabled People by Using Self-Organizing Maps

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Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living (IWANN 2009)

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Abstract

Elderly people usually have some disabilities that get worst with the years. Many times these disabilities difficult the tasks carried out in a normal independent life, as is the case with home tasks. In addition, about one fourth of the household accidents happen in the kitchen. Within the framework of a European project –Easyline plus-, we have developed a tool to evaluate the quality of life of elderly people based on kitchen activity, extracted from data provided by the appliances. Such a tool has found to be very useful for social carers in order to monitor elderly activity, and as an objective support for diagnosis of the evolution of the personal abilities and autonomy of the user.

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  1. Dept. of Electronics Engineering and Communications, University of Zaragoza, 50018, Zaragoza, Spain

    Antonio Bono-Nuez, Bonifacio Martín-del-Brío, Rubén Blasco-Marín, Roberto Casas-Nebra & Armando Roy-Yarza

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

    Sigeru Omatu

  2. Department of Informatics / CCTC, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Miguel P. Rocha

  3. MAmI Research Lab, University of Castilla-La Mancha,, Ciudad Real, Spain

    José Bravo

  4. Department of Informatics, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain

    Florentino Fernández

  5. Grupo de Investigación GICAP, Área de Lenguajes Higher Polytechnic School, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

  6. Higher Polytechnic School, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Andrés Bustillo

  7. Department of Informatics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

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Bono-Nuez, A., Martín-del-Brío, B., Blasco-Marín, R., Casas-Nebra, R., Roy-Yarza, A. (2009). Quality of Life Evaluation of Elderly and Disabled People by Using Self-Organizing Maps. In: Omatu, S., et al. Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living. IWANN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5518. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02481-8_138

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