Generation of human computational models with machine learning

Abstract

Services in smart environments pursue to increase the quality of people's lives. The most important issues when developing this kind of environments is testing and validating such services. These tasks usually imply high costs and annoying or unfeasible real-world test-ing. In such cases, artificial societies may be used to simulate the smart environment (i.e. physical environment, equipment and humans). With this aim, the CHROMUBE methodol-ogy guides test engineers when modeling human beings. Such models reproduce behaviors which are highly similar to the real ones. Originally, these models are based on automata whose transitions are governed by random variables. Automaton's structure and the prob-ability distribution functions of each random variable are determined by a manual test and error process. In this paper, it is presented an alternative extension of this methodology which avoids the said manual process. It is based on learning human behavior patterns automatically from sensor data by using machine learning techniques. The presented approach has been tested on a real scenario, where this extension has given highly accurate human behavior models.

Creating Virtual Humans with Game Engines for Evaluate Ambient Assisted Living Scenarios

“…As future work, we want to include realistic human behaviour such as [13] and create a framework that allows interaction with external researchers such as [14]. This kind of framework could ease focus on specific goals such as [15].…”