A Smart Ink Pen for the Ecological Assessment of Age-Related Changes in Writing and Tremor Features

Lunardini, Francesca; Febbo, Davide Di; Malavolti, Milad; Cid, Manuel Sánchez; Serra, Matteo; Piccini, Luca; Pedrocchi, Alessandra; Borghese, N. Alberto; Ferrante, Simona

doi:10.1109/tim.2020.3045838

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“…This has allowed developing a very complex system in a relatively simple way. Moreover, this architecture enables several benefits such as can be easily extended with newly developed modules that provide new functionalities and new activities, allows the integration within the platform of external components that could provide new functionalities, such as sensorized objects/devices [45,46], allows technological equivalence -i.e. the possibility to deploy the platform on multiple (and simultaneous) devices adapting them to the user's behaviour and preferences, increases the robustness to faults of a single components/object -the system is able to cope with possible failure/errors of a component.…”

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A Community-Based Activity Center to Promote Social Engagement and Counteract Decline of Elders Living Independently

Luperto

Basilico

Vuono

et al. 2021

AIxIA 2020 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence

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Global ageing of the population is deeply affecting the everyday lives of the frailest, by exposing them to increasing isolation and loneliness that, in turn, can cause or accelerate cognitive decline. The use of digital technologies and, in particular, social networks can be an effective tool to mitigate this phenomenon, by helping older age people to stay connected and be stimulated in the cognitive and physical sphere. In this work, we present a platform called Community-Based Activity Center (CBAC) a central tool developed within the scope of the European project Movecare, an effort to leverage intelligent Ambient-Assisted Living technologies to promote active well-being for the elderly. CBAC conveys cross-domain stimulation in the cognitive, physical, and social scopes by providing a virtual community where different types of activities can be carried out alone or together with caregivers, members of the family, friends, and peers. We followed a modular approach, developing a flexible platform that be integrated with AI-based recommendations and that allows for transparent monitoring. The effectiveness of our platform has been extensively tested in a preliminary usability test and in a pilot experimental campaign that involved 25 selected seniors on a time span of 10 weeks.

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A Community-Based Activity Center to Promote Social Engagement and Counteract Decline of Elders Living Independently

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Basilico

Vuono

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“…The user is asked to answer questions [55] Grip Force Measurement Monitoring Users play a game exercising their max grip force on a smart ball [34] Use of Smart Objects Monitoring One of the smart objects, which collects data, is used [34,35] Social Cognitive Games Social/Cognitive Stimulation Users play a game on the CBAC while talking with other users [5,39,62] Gentle Exercises Physical/Social Stimulation Users do a training session on the CBAC while talking with other users [5] Balance Exergames…”

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“…Four objects of everyday use have been integrated inside the platform (Fig. 5): a smart ball, an anti-stress rubber ball to measure the maximum grip force [34], an ink pen that allows to normally write on any sheet of paper while collecting data on tremor and degeneration of handwriting [35], a bluetooth scale, with which recording the daily weight of the user, and a pair of commercial sensorised insoles 8 to evaluate gait degeneration. These objects are designed so that the interaction of the user with them is natural, and can provide at the same time valuable monitoring data in an unobtrusive and ecological way.…”

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Integrating Social Assistive Robots, IoT, Virtual Communities and Smart Objects to Assist at-Home Independently Living Elders: the MoveCare Project

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Monroy

Renoux

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Int J of Soc Robotics

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The integration of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) frameworks with Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) has proven useful for monitoring and assisting older adults in their own home. However, the difficulties associated with long-term deployments in real-world complex environments are still highly under-explored. In this work, we first present the MoveCare system, an unobtrusive platform that, through the integration of a SAR into an AAL framework, aimed to monitor, assist and provide social, cognitive, and physical stimulation in the own houses of elders living alone and at risk of falling into frailty. We then focus on the evaluation and analysis of a long-term pilot campaign of more than 300 weeks of usages. We evaluated the system’s acceptability and feasibility through various questionnaires and empirically assessed the impact of the presence of an assistive robot by deploying the system with and without it. Our results provide strong empirical evidence that Socially Assistive Robots integrated with monitoring and stimulation platforms can be successfully used for long-term support to older adults. We describe how the robot’s presence significantly incentivised the use of the system, but slightly lowered the system’s overall acceptability. Finally, we emphasise that real-world long-term deployment of SARs introduces a significant technical, organisational, and logistical overhead that should not be neglected nor underestimated in the pursuit of long-term robust systems. We hope that the findings and lessons learned from our work can bring value towards future long-term real-world and widespread use of SARs.

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“…With the rise of technology, AI researchers are now exploring potential alternatives or additional techniques such as dynamic handwriting and drawing analysis using specialized electronic devices, e.g. digitizing tablets and smart pens [59]. This has led to a paradigm shift from visual analysis to procedural analysis techniques.…”

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A survey of visual and procedural handwriting analysis for neuropsychological assessment

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Diaz

Masroor

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Neural Comput & Applic

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To date, Artificial Intelligence systems for handwriting and drawing analysis have primarily targeted domains such as writer identification and sketch recognition. Conversely, the automatic characterization of graphomotor patterns as biomarkers of brain health is a relatively less explored research area. Despite its importance, the work done in this direction is limited and sporadic. This paper aims to provide a survey of related work to provide guidance to novice researchers and highlight relevant study contributions. The literature has been grouped into “visual analysis techniques” and “procedural analysis techniques”. Visual analysis techniques evaluate offline samples of a graphomotor response after completion. On the other hand, procedural analysis techniques focus on the dynamic processes involved in producing a graphomotor reaction. Since the primary goal of both families of strategies is to represent domain knowledge effectively, the paper also outlines the commonly employed handwriting representation and estimation methods presented in the literature and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. It also highlights the limitations of existing processes and the challenges commonly faced when designing such systems. High-level directions for further research conclude the paper.

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A Smart Ink Pen for the Ecological Assessment of Age-Related Changes in Writing and Tremor Features

Cited by 15 publications

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A Community-Based Activity Center to Promote Social Engagement and Counteract Decline of Elders Living Independently

A Community-Based Activity Center to Promote Social Engagement and Counteract Decline of Elders Living Independently

Integrating Social Assistive Robots, IoT, Virtual Communities and Smart Objects to Assist at-Home Independently Living Elders: the MoveCare Project

A survey of visual and procedural handwriting analysis for neuropsychological assessment

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