RFID: Recognizing failures in dressing activity

Kyriaki Kalimeri; Aleksandar Matic; Alessandro Cappelletti

4th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

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RFID: Recognizing failures in dressing activity

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8896,
    author={Kyriaki Kalimeri and Aleksandar Matic and Alessandro Cappelletti},
    title={RFID: Recognizing failures in dressing activity},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2010},
    month={6},
    keywords={Monitoring ADL; Assessing Dressing Activity;RFID},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8896}
}

Kyriaki Kalimeri
Aleksandar Matic
Alessandro Cappelletti
Year: 2010
RFID: Recognizing failures in dressing activity
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8896

Kyriaki Kalimeri¹^,*, Aleksandar Matic²^,*, Alessandro Cappelletti¹^,*

1: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Povo, Trento, Italy
2: CREATE-NET, Povo, Trento, Italy

*Contact email: kalimeri@fbk.eu, aleksandar.matic@create-net.org, cappelle@fbk.eu

Abstract

In elderly care the manual assessment of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) is a significant problem. Focusing on the dressing we aim not only to recognize the activity performed but also to evaluate its quality, using solely RFID technology. Our approach leverages sparse and noisy RFID readings by applying the two probabilistic methods, Bayesian Networks and Layered HMM. The goal is to follow the garments that patients are manipulating and to detect possible failures such as forgetting to put on something or putting clothes in wrong order. The experimental results showed that both methods can achieve high accuracy.

Keywords: Monitoring ADL; Assessing Dressing Activity;RFID

Published: 2010-06-07

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8896