The intelligent room for elderly care

Oscar Martinez Mozos, Tokuo Tsuji, Hyunuk Chae, Shunya Kuwahata, Yoon Seok Pyo, Tsutomu Hasegawa, Ken'ichi Morooka, Ryo Kurazume

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Abstract

Daily life assistance for elderly is one of the most promising and interesting scenarios for advanced technologies in the near future. Improving the quality of life of elderly is also some of the first priorities in modern countries and societies where the percentage of elder people is rapidly increasing due mainly to great improvements in medicine during the last decades. In this paper, we present an overview of our informationally structured room that supports daily life activities of elderly with the aim of improving their quality of life. Our environment contains different distributed sensors including a floor sensing system and several intelligent cabinets. Sensor information is sent to a centralized management system which processes the data and makes it available to a service robot which assists the people in the room. One important restriction in our intelligent environment is to maintain a small number of sensors to avoid interfering with the daily activities of people and to reduce as much as possible the invasion of their privacy. In addition we discuss some experiments using our real environment and robot.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNatural and Artificial Models in Computation and Biology - 5th International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2013, Proceedings
Pages103-112
Number of pages10
EditionPART 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2013 - Mallorca, Spain
Duration: Jun 10 2013Jun 14 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume7930 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2013
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMallorca
Period6/10/136/14/13

Keywords

  • Ambient Intelligence
  • Assistive Robotics
  • Intelligent Room
  • Quality of Life Technologies

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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