A Knowledge Based Framework to Support Active Aging at Home Based Environments

Abstract

Abstract. Information and Communication Technologies can support ActiveAging strategies in a scenario like the Smart Home. This paper details a person centered distributed framework, called TALISMAN+, whose aim is to promote personal autonomy by taking advantage of knowledge based technologies, sensors networks, mobile devices and internet. The proposed solution can support an elderly person to keep living alone at his house without being obliged to move to a residential center. The framework is composed by five subsystems: a reasoning module that is able to take local decisions at home in order to support active aging, a biomedical variables telemonitorisation platform running on a mobile device, a hybrid reasoning middleware aimed to assess cardiovascular risk in a remote way, a private vision based sensor subsystem, and a secure telematics solution that guarantees confidentiality for personal information. TALISMAN+ framework deployment is being evaluated at a real environment like the Accessible Digital Home.

Collaborative Explanation and Response in Assisted Living Environments Enhanced with Humanoid Robots

“…For example, reasoning in (Viterbo and Endler, 2012) is distributed in that different computational nodes cooperate to infer a global context state; the reasoning process is however limited to ontology-based inference, and is not resilient to inaccurate or conflicting information. Finally, all existing knowledge-based reasoning approaches assume a single direction information flow: from sensor input, through to data analysis and decision-making, and then to reaction and control, irrespective of the extent to which each of these phases are decentralised (Snchez-Garzn et al, 2012;Valero et al, 2013). …”