Using case-based reasoning to detect risk scenarios of elderly people living alone at home

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Lupiani, Eduardo, Juarez, Jose M., Palma, Jose, Sauer, Christian and Roth-Berghofer, Thomas (2014) Using case-based reasoning to detect risk scenarios of elderly people living alone at home. In: 22nd International Conference: Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR 2014), 29 Sept - 01 Oct 2014, Cork, Ireland.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11209-1_20

Abstract

In today’s ageing societies, the proportion of elderly people living alone in their own homes is dramatically increasing. Smart homes provide the appropriate environment for keeping them independent and, therefore, enhancing their quality of life. One of the most important requirements of these systems is that they have to provide a pervasive environment without disrupting elderly people’s daily activities. The present paper introduces a CBR agent used within a commercial Smart Home system, designed for detecting domestic accidents that may lead to serious complications if the elderly resident is not attended quickly. The approach is based on cases composed of event sequences. Each event sequence represents the different locations visited by the resident during his/her daily activities. Using this approach, the system can decide whether the current sequence represent an unsafe scenario or not. It does so by comparing the current sequence with previously stored sequences. Several experiments have been conducted with different CBR agent configurations in order to test this approach. Results from these experiments show that the proposed approach is able to detect unsafe scenarios.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
ISSN:	0302-9743
ISBN:	9783319112084
Identifier:	10.1007/978-3-319-11209-1_20
Page Range:	pp. 274-288
Identifier:	10.1007/978-3-319-11209-1_20
Additional Information:	Elderly monitoring, Temporal case-base, Temporal case similarity, Implementation
Keywords:	© Springer Verlag 2014. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11209-1_20
Subjects:	Computing
Depositing User:	Christian Sauer
Date Deposited:	16 Mar 2016 16:26
Last Modified:	28 Aug 2021 07:19
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1812