An Approach for Representing Sensor Data to Validate Alerts in Ambient Assisted Living

Muñoz, Andrés; Serrano, Emilio; Villa, Ana; Valdés-Vela, Mercedes; Botía, Juan A.

doi:10.3390/s120506282

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“…Based on user needs and with the aim of improving alert handling, [10] does have a representation of functionality as an algorithm description, and contextual information is also displayed. It does have two case studies with which requirements are validated and their argumentation explanation is shown and applied.…”

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A Multi-Collaborative Ambient Assisted Living Service Description Tool

Falcó

Vaquerizo

Artigas

2014

Sensors

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Collaboration among different stakeholders is a key factor in the design of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) environments and services. Throughout several AAL projects we have found repeated difficulties in this collaboration and have learned lessons by the experience of solving real situations. This paper highlights identified critical items for collaboration among technicians, users, company and institutional stakeholders and proposes as a communication tool for a project steering committee a service description tool which includes information from the different fields in comprehensible format for the others. It was first generated in the MonAMI project to promote understanding among different workgroups, proven useful there, and further tested later in some other smaller AAL projects. The concept of scalable service description has proven useful for understanding of different disciplines and for participatory decision making throughout the projects to adapt to singularities and partial successes or faults of each action. This paper introduces such tool, relates with existing methodologies in cooperation in AAL and describes it with a example to offer to AAL community. Further work on this tool will significantly improve results in user-centered design of sustainable services in AAL.

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A Multi-Collaborative Ambient Assisted Living Service Description Tool

Falcó

Vaquerizo

Artigas

2014

Sensors

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“…Some works have got deep into this aspect, highlighting the importance of such events, not only from the user needs perspective, but also from its critical handling and interface information displaying [25,26]. Design in [25] attends specifically the interfaces for interaction between carers and the AAL system, showing the importance of giving support to carers on checking the situations inferred by the system (alerts, subject's location and activities, etc .) in a friendly and intuitive manner [27], including the availability of explanations for such situations, both textual and visual.…”

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AmI and Deployment Considerations in AAL Services Provision for Elderly Independent Living: The MonAMI Project

Falcó

Vaquerizo

Lain

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Sensors

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Abstract:The MonAMI project aims to investigate the feasibility of the deployment of open platforms for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) services provision based on Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and to test user acceptance and the usability of the services. Services were designed to provide support in the areas of environmental control, security, well-being and leisure. These services were installed and evaluated in a Spanish geriatric residence. The participants included elderly persons with disabilities, nursing home care givers and informal carers. The concept of the open platform proved to be satisfactory for the provision of the services in a context aware framework. Furthermore, the usability of the technology was viewed positively and the overall results indicate that this system has the potential to prolong independent living at home for elderly people with disabilities. Deployment was proven successful and awareness of open-platform AAL service delivery was raised in local communities throughout Europe.

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“…Agents pose advantages for the development of AAL systems [21,10,15]. However, current solutions do not allow the development of heterogenous MAS, because they are restricted to a single agent platform and network technology [21], which makes difficult the integration of new technologies.…”

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“…In this case, agents are used to observe the elderly person from various points of view. An argumentative MAS is used in [15] to enable the reproduction and evaluation of inconsistent situations detected by AAL systems. They are part of an alarm management tool that supports carers to validate alarms raised by AAL systems.…”

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Using SPL to Develop AAL Systems Based on Self-adaptive Agents

Ayala¹,

Amor²,

Fuentes³

2016

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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Abstract. One of the most important challenges of this decade is the Internet of Things (IoT) that pursues the integration of real-world objects in Internet. One of the key areas of the IoT is the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems, which should be able to react to variable and continuous changes while ensuring their acceptance and adoption by users. This means that AAL systems need to work as self-adaptive systems. The autonomy property inherent to software agents, makes them a suitable choice for developing self-adaptive systems. However, agents lack the mechanisms to deal with the variability present in the IoT domain with regard to devices and network technologies. To overcome this limitation we have already proposed a Software Product Line (SPL) process for the development of self-adaptive agents in the IoT. Here we analyze the challenges that poses the development of self-adaptive AAL systems based on agents. To do so, we focus on the domain and application engineering of the self-adaptation concern of our SPL process. In addition, we provide a validation of our development process for AAL systems.

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An Approach for Representing Sensor Data to Validate Alerts in Ambient Assisted Living

Cited by 21 publications

References 20 publications

A Multi-Collaborative Ambient Assisted Living Service Description Tool

A Multi-Collaborative Ambient Assisted Living Service Description Tool

AmI and Deployment Considerations in AAL Services Provision for Elderly Independent Living: The MonAMI Project

Using SPL to Develop AAL Systems Based on Self-adaptive Agents

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