AI in Eldercare: New Solutions to Old Problems
Papers from the 2008 AAAI Fall Symposium
Marge Skubic, Program Chair
Technical Report FS-08-02. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Organizing Committee / iii
Marge Skubic
Sit to Stand Detection and Analysis / 1
Sonya Allin, Alex Mihailidis
ETHEL: Toward a Principled Ethical Eldercare System / 4
Michael Anderson, Susan Leigh Anderson
A Framework for Individual Cognitive Performance Assessment in Real-time for Elderly Users / 12
Sandra H. Budde, Thomas Barkowsky
An AI Approach to Measuring Resident-on-Resident Physical Aggression In Nursing Homes / 15 Datong Chen, Howard Wactlar, Ashok Bharucha, Ming-yu Chen,
Can Gao, Alex Hauptmann
A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Domestic Assistive Robots / 24
Gabriella Cortellessa, Massimiliano Scopelliti, Lorenza Tiberio, Gion Koch Svedberg, Amy Loutfi, Federico Pecora
Towards an Intelligent Service to Elders Mobility Using the i-Walker / 32
U. Cortés, A. Martínez-Velasco, C. Barrué, E. X. Martín, F. Campana, R. Annicchiarico, C. Caltagirone
Resident and Caregiver: Handling Multiple People in a Smart Care Facility / 39
Aaron S. Crandall, Diane J. Cook
Towards a Multisensory-based Automation of Urinary Incontinence Behavioural Treatment / 48
Carsten Fischer, Dario Sancho-Pradel, Kerstin Schill
Automated Upper Extremity Rehabilitation for Stroke Patients Using a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process / 52
Patricia Kan, Jesse Hoey, Alex Mihailidis
Integrating Sensing and Cueing for More Effective Activity Reminders / 60
Joseph Modayil, Rich Levinson, Craig Harman, David Halper, Henry Kautz
Towards Provably Safe Control for Smart Wheelchairs / 67
Meeko Oishi, Nikolai Matni
Privacy-Preserving Recognition of Activities in Daily Living from Multi-view Silhouettes and RFID-based Training / 70
Sangho Park, Henry Kautz
A Fuzzy Logic System for Acoustic Fall Detection / 78
Mihail Popescu, Simon Coupland
TigerPlace: An Innovative Educational and Research Environment / 84
Marilyn Rantz, Myra Aud, Greg Alexander, Debra Oliver, De Minner, Marge Skubic, James Keller, Zhihai He, Mihail Popescu, George Demiris, Steve Miller
Probabilistic Multisensory Emotion Estimation Framework for Assistive Robotic Applications / 92
Dario L. Sancho-Pradel, Elena G. Nikolova
Temporal Activity Analysis / 100
Isaac J. Sledge, James M. Keller, Timothy C. Havens, Gregory L. Alexander, Marge Skubic
The Huggable: A Platform for Research in Robotic Companions for Eldercare / 109
Walter Dan Stiehl, Jun Ki Lee, Robert Toscano, Cynthia Breazeal
Sharing Spaces with Robots in a Home Scenario — Anthropomorphic Attributions and their Effect on Proxemic Expectations and Evaluations in a Live HRI Trial / 116
Dag Sverre Syrdal, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Michael L. Walters, Kheng Lee Koay
Socially Assistive Robotic Music Therapist for Maintaining Attention of Older Adults with Cognitive Impairments / 124
Adriana Tapus, Maja J Mataric
Using a Socially Assistive Robot in Gait Recovery and Training for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments / 128
Adriana Tapus, Eric Wade, Maja Mataric
An Objective Approach towards Assessment of the Physiological Age of Heart / 131
Kouhyar Tavakolian, Alireza Akhbardeh, Bozena Kaminska
An Adaptive Scheme for Wheelchair Navigation Collaborative Control / 134
C. Urdiales, J.M. Peula, C. Barrué, U. Cortés, F. Sandoval, C. Caltagirone, R. Annicchiarico
Recognizing Activities in Multiple Contexts using Transfer Learning / 142
T.L.M. van Kasteren, G. Englebienne, B.J.A. Kröse
NOAH for Wheelchair Users with Cognitive Impairment: Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance Help / 150
Pooja Viswanathan, Alan Mackworth, James Little, Jesse Hoey, Alex Mihailidis
Does AI Have a Role in Eldercare Devices? / 153
John S. Zelek
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