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A Mobile System for Assisted Living with Ambient Facial Interfaces
Abstract
This paper describes a mobile Ambi ent Assisted Living (AAL) solution designed to meet the require- ments of modern health services in caring for, m onitoring and motivating the elderly in their own envi- ronment. Our solution goes beyond the function of cl assical telemonitoring by delivering integrated functionality that includes health management, mental monitoring, m ood assessment as well as physical and relaxation exercises. In addition, we provide co mmunication and delivery services in location-based manner using built in GPS, WiFi and 3G mobile c onnectivity (MediCAST). Bluetooth compatible blood pressure and body weight measurement devices are complemented with a body-mounted wireless physiological sensor to monitor activity, body temper ature and stress. Telemetric data is continuously recorded on a local host computer while simultaneously being also sent to a central database, where a rule-based system or monitoring health personnel ma y make emergency assessment. To further help the elderly, to monitor their own drug intake or diet ary goals we introduce a novel feedback and display methodology, called Ambient Facial Interfaces (AFI) that employ animated photo-realistic faces to show them in an easy-to-understand form their compliance levels. Finally, we describe a prototype of our fu- turistic AAL platform using home robots to help people with daily activities.
Keywords
Computer Science
Information Systems
Software Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
IADIS
Data Analytics
Declarations & Ethics
Funding:
This research received academic dissemination support through ESCAP / JournalsHub publishing programs.
Conflicts of Interest:
The authors declare no competing financial or institutional interests.
Peer Review:
Double-blind peer reviewed by international subject specialists.
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
How to Cite This Article
APA / MLA / BibTeX
Takács, et al. (2007). A Mobile System for Assisted Living with Ambient Facial Interfaces. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2007_v2i2_04
Takács, et al. "A Mobile System for Assisted Living with Ambient Facial Interfaces." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, vol. 2, no. 2, 2007. https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2007_v2i2_04
Takács, et al. "A Mobile System for Assisted Living with Ambient Facial Interfaces." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems 2, no. 2 (2007). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2007_v2i2_04