Modelling the Behaviour of Elderly People as a Means of Monitoring Well Being

Hine, Nick; Judson, A.; Ashraf, Saqib; Arnott, John L.; Sixsmith, Andrew; Brown, Steve; Garner, Paul

doi:10.1007/11527886_32

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“…Attempts are also being made to read a variety of sensors from all over the home in order to register the normal patterns of activity, and thus be able to detect possibly worrying departures from the usual patterns (for instance by noting that the living room has not been entered that day). Such systems might be able to detect a range of potentially dangerous situations and alert carers to them [20].…”

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Involving older people with dementia and their carers in designing computer based support systems: some methodological considerations

Astell

Alm

Gowans

et al. 2008

Univ Access Inf Soc

108

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Older people with dementia are a particularly challenging user group to involve in the process of designing interactive systems that could assist them. It may also be difficult to involve family caregivers of people with dementia, as they are most likely to be older themselves and uncertain about technology. Paid care staff, whilst younger, may be unclear about the benefits of technology and lack confidence in their ability to incorporate it into their work. Over the past 7 years, the authors of this paper have worked closely with people with dementia, their families and professional care staff to develop and evaluate a multimedia computer system to support communication between people with dementia and caregivers. To achieve this, a number of user involvement issues were addressed, ranging from legal and ethical considerations of working with people with dementia to the reluctance of hard-pressed staff to add to their workload for a research project. In addition, developing and conducting evaluations and eliciting the views of people with dementia who have working memory impairment plus additional cognitive and social difficulties emerged as a central issue. A variety of approaches were explored within this project, which are described in this paper, including familiarizing the whole team with the unique difficulties posed by dementia, continuous confirmation of participants' consent, and ways to measure enjoyment, engagement, and joint interaction using observation.

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Involving older people with dementia and their carers in designing computer based support systems: some methodological considerations

Astell

Alm

Gowans

et al. 2008

Univ Access Inf Soc

108

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“…• Building a data cube: Data from the data warehouse were organised into a multi-dimensional data model in order to provide facilities for summarisation and aggregation at different levels of granularity (general and specific) [6]. The data cube was aggregated by room (bedroom, hall, kitchen and living room), time zone, week (5-24) and weekday;…”

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“…Hine et al [6] stated that lifestyle modelling consists in the correlation of specific activities with patterns of well-being like eating and social interaction. These activities can be visualised at different levels of granularity and changes of activity could reflect changes in well-being.…”

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Data visualisation and data mining technology for supporting care for older people

Gil

Hine

Arnott

et al. 2007

Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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The overall purpose of the research discussed here is the enhancement of home-based care by revealing individual patterns in the life of a person, through modelling of the "busyness" of activity in their dwelling, so that care can be better tailored to their needs and changing circumstances. The use of data mining and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) is potentially interesting in this context because of the possibility of exploring, detecting and predicting changes in the level of activity of people's movement that may reflect change in well-being. An investigation is presented here into the use of data mining and visualisation to illustrate activity from sensor data from a trial project run in a domestic context.

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“…(1) Working with each of the stakeholder groups to appropriately capture their independent requirements, needs and wants [1,7] (2) Bringing stakeholders together in order to create empathy and shared knowledge between the stakeholder groups [6,12] At the workshop we will present:…”

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Keeping everyone happy: Multiple stakeholder requirements for home care technology

McGee‐Lennon¹,

Gray²

2009

Proceedings of the 3d International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

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I. HOME CARE SYSTEMSWe refer to 'Home Care Systems' as the technology and services required to support and realise activities of the network of care. Such technology typically includes sensors, devices, displays, data, and networks, and computing infrastructures which provide the means to collect, distribute, analyse and manage care related information. Such home care support can range from simple stand-alone electro-mechanical alarms installed in a person's home, perhaps to indicate a bath overflowing, to systems integrated into the home's physical infrastructure that monitor patient state, perform sophisticated analyses, deliver customised information to patients and clinicians and support communication among them.

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Modelling the Behaviour of Elderly People as a Means of Monitoring Well Being

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Involving older people with dementia and their carers in designing computer based support systems: some methodological considerations

Involving older people with dementia and their carers in designing computer based support systems: some methodological considerations

Data visualisation and data mining technology for supporting care for older people

Keeping everyone happy: Multiple stakeholder requirements for home care technology

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