Title :
Artifacts´ roaming beats recognition for estimating care activities in a nursing home
Author :
Martinez-Perez, Francisco E. ; Fraga, J Angel Gonzalez ; Tentori, Monica
Author_Institution :
Fac. de Ing., Univ. Autonoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico
Abstract :
This paper describes an approach to estimate the activity being performed by caregivers in a nursing home. The approach is based on information gathered from a workplace study conducted in a nursing home, in which 400 hours of detailed observation caregivers´ activities were recorded. Automatic identification of objects based in composite correlation filters was implemented in order to generate a descriptive behavior of objects. When the behavior of the artifacts related with the activities is validated, the estimation of an activity is found. The activities estimated with a 92.72% of accuracy (on average) include hygiene, feeding and taking vital signs.
Keywords :
gesture recognition; handicapped aids; health care; object recognition; patient monitoring; ubiquitous computing; automatic object identification; care activity; caregiver; composite correlation filters; context-aware computing; feeding; hygiene; nursing home; object descriptive behavior; object recognition; roaming beats recognition; Employment; Face detection; Filters; Humans; Medical services; Pervasive computing; Physics computing; Robustness; Ubiquitous computing; Videos; Activity estimation; artifacts´ roaming beats; context-aware computing; correlation filters; object recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2010 4th International Conference on-NO PERMISSIONS
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-963-9799-89-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-963-9799-89-9
DOI :
10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8847
