title: Toward real time detection of the basic living activity in home using a wearable sensor and smart home sensors.
abstract: As the elderly people living alone are enormously increasing recently, we need the system inferring activities of daily living (ADL) for maintaining healthy life and recognizing emergency. The system should be constructed with sensors, which are used to associate with people's living while remaining as non intrusive views as possible. To do this, the proposed system use a triaxial accelerometer sensor and environment sensors indicating contact with subject in home. Particularly, in order to robustly infer ADLs, we present component ADL, which is decided with conjunction of human motion together, not just only contacted object identification. It is an important component in inferring ADL. In special, component ADL decision firstly refines misclassified initial activities, which improves the accuracy of recognizing ADL. Preliminary experiments results for proposed system provides overall recognition rate of over 97% over 8 component ADLs, which can be effectively applicable to recognize the final ADLs.
authors.affiliation: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, 161 Gajeong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-350, Korea. slbang@etri.re.kr
authors.forename: Sunlee
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bang
authors.forename: Minho
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sa-Kwang
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Soo-Jun
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D000054:Acceleration; D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003020:Clothing; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014159:Transducers