title: ART - a new concept for an activity recorder and transceiver.
abstract: In this contribution, a new concept for an activity recorder and transceiver (ART) is presented. Among the many purposes ART can be used for, this contribution focuses on the development of personal assistant devices for an aging society. Instead of probing a patient's health only when illness occurs, ART offers the possibility to monitor a person ubiquitous in every day life in order e.g. to detect abnormal changes in behavior, mainly based on the recording of discrete events rather than continuous sensor data streams. ARTs are key elements to develop personal assistant devices that are able to support people especially with cognitive impairments to remain living independent and yet secure their home environments. In this document vital demands on such systems will be defined and systematically analyzed. Furthermore the system architecture and possible applications for ARTs will be presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Micro Technology and Medical Device Technology, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Boltzmannstr. 15, D-85748 Garching, Germany. lorenzo.dangelo@tum.de
authors.forename: Lorenzo T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: D'Angelo
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Czabke
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Somlai
authors.forename: Khalil
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Niazmand
authors.forename: Tim C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Lueth
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D000465:Algorithms; D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000639:trends*; D003071:Cognition; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D004867:Equipment Design; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D009068:Movement; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods