title: A Vision-Based Approach for Building Telecare and Telerehabilitation Services.
abstract: In the last few years, telerehabilitation and telecare have become important topics in healthcare since they enable people to remain independent in their own homes by providing person-centered technologies to support the individual. These technologies allows elderly people to be assisted in their home, instead of traveling to a clinic, providing them wellbeing and personalized health care. The literature shows a great number of interesting proposals to address telerehabilitation and telecare scenarios, which may be mainly categorized into two broad groups, namely wearable devices and context-aware systems. However, we believe that these apparently different scenarios may be addressed by a single context-aware approach, concretely a vision-based system that can operate automatically in a non-intrusive way for the elderly, and this is the goal of this paper. We present a general approach based on 3D cameras and neural network algorithms that offers an efficient solution for two different scenarios of telerehabilitation and telecare for elderly people. Our empirical analysis reveals the effectiveness and accuracy of the algorithms presented in our approach and provides more than promising results when the neural network parameters are properly adjusted.
authors.affiliation: Quercus Software Engineering Group, University of Extremadura, Cáceres 10071, Spain. abarrigaj@alumnos.unex.es.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barriga
authors.affiliation: Quercus Software Engineering Group, University of Extremadura, Cáceres 10071, Spain. chemacm@unex.es.
authors.forename: José M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Conejero
authors.affiliation: Quercus Software Engineering Group, University of Extremadura, Cáceres 10071, Spain. juanher@unex.es.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hernández
authors.affiliation: Quercus Software Engineering Group, University of Extremadura, Cáceres 10071, Spain. elenajur@unex.es.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jurado
authors.affiliation: Quercus Software Engineering Group, University of Extremadura, Cáceres 10071, Spain. enrique@unex.es.
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Moguel
authors.affiliation: Quercus Software Engineering Group, University of Extremadura, Cáceres 10071, Spain. fernando@unex.es.
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Figueroa
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D000069350:Telerehabilitation / Q000379:methods*
keywords: 3D-cameras; fall detection; healthcare; neural network; telerehabilitation