Presentation 2017-01-19
Capturing Activities of Daily Living for Elderly at Home based on Environment Change and Speech Dialog
Kazunari Tamamizu, Seiji Sakakibara, Sachio Saiki, Masahide Nakamura, Kiyoshi Yasuda,
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Abstract(in English) The ICT-based elderly monitoring systems attract great attention as a promising technology for home elderly care. However, the conventional systems have limitations of deployment cost and invasiveness, effort of activity labeling, and a lack of communication. To cope with the limitations, we propose a system that captures activities of daily living (ADL) of the elderly, based on speech dialogue triggered by environment changes. Speci fically, we deploy Autonomous Sensor Boxes, developed in our previous study, within a house of the elderly. The boxes gather and send house environmental data to the cloud. Then, the Change Finder algorithm is applied to the time-series data, to detect changes in the house online. On detecting a change, the Virtual Agent (VA) in the house asks theelderly what he/she is doing now. The elderly speaks to the VA, by which an ADL is recorded in the system. The proposed system can capture ADL with non-invasive sensing and create an opportunity of communication.
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Keyword(in English) elderly care / home care / change detection / activity recognition / virtual agent / Web service
Paper # ICM2016-40,LOIS2016-49
Date of Issue 2017-01-12 (ICM, LOIS)

Conference Information
Committee ICM / LOIS
Conference Date 2017/1/19(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) The Nagasaki Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Practical Use of Lifelog, Office Information System, Business Management, etc.
Chair Toshio Tonouchi(NEC) / Hiroyuki Nishi(Sojo Univ.)
Vice Chair Manabu Nakagawa(NTT Communications) / Yuji Nomura(Fujitsu Labs.) / Tomohiro Yamada(NTT)
Secretary Manabu Nakagawa(NEC) / Yuji Nomura(Fujitsu) / Tomohiro Yamada(NTT)
Assistant Masaharu Hattori(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Yukihiro Nakamura(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Information and Communication Management / Technical Committee on Life Intelligence and Office Information Systems
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Capturing Activities of Daily Living for Elderly at Home based on Environment Change and Speech Dialog
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) elderly care
Keyword(2) home care
Keyword(3) change detection
Keyword(4) activity recognition
Keyword(5) virtual agent
Keyword(6) Web service
1st Author's Name Kazunari Tamamizu
1st Author's Affiliation Kobe University(Kobe Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Seiji Sakakibara
2nd Author's Affiliation Kobe University(Kobe Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Sachio Saiki
3rd Author's Affiliation Kobe University(Kobe Univ.)
4th Author's Name Masahide Nakamura
4th Author's Affiliation Kobe University(Kobe Univ.)
5th Author's Name Kiyoshi Yasuda
5th Author's Affiliation Chiba rosai Hospital(Chiba rosai Hospital)
Date 2017-01-19
Paper # ICM2016-40,LOIS2016-49
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) ICM-404,LOIS-405
Page pp.pp.7-12(ICM), pp.7-12(LOIS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-01-12 (ICM, LOIS)