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Extracting intra-and inter-activity association patterns from daily routines of elders

  • Qiang Lin
  • , Daqing Zhang
  • , Dongsheng Li
  • , Hongbo Ni
  • , Xingshe Zhou

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Abstract

One of the most challenging issues faced by many elders is the over-decreasing independence mainly caused by impaired physical, cognitive, and/or sensory abilities. Activity recognition can be used to help elders live longer in their own homes independently, by providing assurance of safety, instructing performance of activity and assessing cognitive status. In this work, we propose to discover both intra-and inter-activity association patterns from daily routines of elderly people. Specifically, a data mining method is proposed to extract the most frequent sequential sequences of steps inside each individual activity (i.e., intra-activity pattern) and activities (i.e., inter-activity pattern) of a set of daily activities. These patterns can then be used to model human daily activities for activity recognition purpose, or to directly instruct/prompt elders with impaired memory when they perform daily routines. The experimental results conducted on two individuals' datasets of daily activities show that our proposed approach is workable to discover these association patterns.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInclusive Society
Subtitle of host publicationHealth and Wellbeing in the Community, and Care at Home - 11th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2013, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages36-44
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783642394690
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event11th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2013 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 19 Jun 201321 Jun 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7910 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2013
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period19/06/1321/06/13

Keywords

  • activity recognition
  • association extraction
  • Elderly people
  • sequential pattern

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