Abstract:Nowadays, assistive technologies together with ubiquitous and pervasive computing are emerging as main alternative to help ageing population. In this respect, an important number of works have been carried out to improve the quality of life in elderly from a physical point of view. However, less efforts have been made in monitoring the mental and emotional states of the elderly. This work presents a nonlinear model for discriminating different arousal levels through quadratic entropy and a decision tree-based … Show more
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