title: HomeADL for adaptive ADL monitoring within smart homes.
abstract: In this paper we present homeADL: a representation standard for an inference hierarchy of activities of daily living which may be monitored in a sensor equipped smart home. The approach allows a free exchange of ADL monitoring structures between different communities who share the same concern of providing high quality healthcare to the elderly. Its ability of matching different ADL protocols enables a mapping between an ADL protocol to a suitable smart home which makes an effective management of smart homes within a community hence, not only being able to satisfy an individual's healthcare requirements but also efficiently using monitoring resources at hand.
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Research Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland. x.hong@ulster.ac.uk
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Chris D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Nugent
authors.forename: Dewar D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Finlay
authors.forename: Maurice
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mulvenna
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004582:Electronics, Medical; D004867:Equipment Design; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface