Research Article
Recognising activities of daily life through the usage of everyday objects around the home
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6059, author={Usman Naeem and John Bigham}, title={Recognising activities of daily life through the usage of everyday objects around the home}, proceedings={TCCDW WORKSHOP (PervasiveHealth) 2009}, proceedings_a={TCCDW}, year={2009}, month={8}, keywords={Hierarchal Activities of Daily Life; Alzheimer's Disease; Task Sequences; Object Usage.}, doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6059} }
- Usman Naeem
John Bigham
Year: 2009
Recognising activities of daily life through the usage of everyday objects around the home
TCCDW
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6059
Abstract
The integration of RFID sensors into everyday products has become a widespread solution for increasing efficiency in supply chain management. This has also led to a way of being able to monitor everyday activities in the home based on when and how these products are used, which is less intrusive than other monitoring approaches such as visual based systems. Monitoring activities in a home environment can be seen as a good way of analyzing behavior and tracking functional decline among elderly people. This paper describes a hierarchal approach for activity recognition using object usage data generated by everyday products used around the home. The motivation of this work is to allow people with early Alzheimer's disease to have additional years of independent living before the disease reaches a stage where the person is fully dependable on someone else.