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Handling conflicts of context-aware reminding system in sensorised home

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In this paper, we propose a context-aware reminding system to assist dementia elders for their daily activities. We particularly focus on the issue of conflict detecting and handling in the real-world reminding applications. We adopt a planning approach to describe the constraints of reminders, and transform the constraints into temporal constraint graph for reminder conflict detecting. In real-time reminder scheduling, we define three disruptive activities, and present a context-aware reminding strategy to handle the conflicts between pre-planned and disruptive activities. Finally, the system prototype is introduced.

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Abbreviations

ADLs::

activity of daily living

TCG::

temporal constraint graph

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  1. School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, People’s Republic of China

    Kejun Du & Xingshe Zhou

  2. Institut Telecom—Telecom and Management SudParis, Evry Cedex, France

    Kejun Du, Daqing Zhang & Mossaab Hariz

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Du, K., Zhang, D., Zhou, X. et al. Handling conflicts of context-aware reminding system in sensorised home. Cluster Comput 14, 81–89 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-009-0091-1

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