DyGo -- Household Object Interaction Tracking for Smart Home Environments

The past decades brought substantial improvements in quality of life, average life expectancy, and medical solutions to previously incurable illness. However, little progress has been made in healing or improving quality of life for cognitively impaired patients (Alzheimer, Lewy body dementia, vascular dementia, front temporal dementia, Parkinson´s disease or corticobasal degeneration). The past years have brought forth numerous AmI solutions for monitoring daily activities of cognitive impaired patients, but their real world application is generally limited by privacy, price and deployment constrains. The current paper proposes a household object interaction system that uses a novel algorithm to provide information for behavioral monitoring while preserving intimacy and keeping real world implementation effort at acceptable levels.