Dealing with uncertainty in a context aware pre-embarkation prompter system to support independent living

We live in the information age, where many tasks are automated and many jobs are performed by machines. There has been a certain amount of fear about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive computing and its impact on traditional careers, but these developments are good news for people with disabilities. Elderly people who have lost some of their cognitive capabilities, and those who have life-long intellectual disabilities (ID) can avail of AI to become more independent and enjoy the same conveniences as the rest of society. Of course, this relies on making such systems accessible for this vulnerable group of users. Existing research has considered aids for activities of daily living including wayfinding for helping with commuting for ID service users. This work seeks to produce an assistive technology that supports people with intellectual impairment in the preparations for leaving an indoor space so that they may do so independently with only minimum interventions from the family or the caregiver.

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Hicham Rifai

Paula Kelly

Damon Berry

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Publication date: July 2018

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.204

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

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Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

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[1] G. BorrielloW. Brunette 2004 Reminding About Tagged Objects Using Passive RFIDs. Proceedings of The International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp ’04) 2004 36 53

[2] Angelo CostaVicente JulianP. Novais 2017 Personal Assistants: Emerging Computational Technologies Springer

[3] B. Das 2012 Using smart phones for context-aware prompting in smart environments. 2012 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC’2012 2012 399 403

[4] A.K. DeyG.D. Abowd 1999 Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness. Computing Systems 40 3 1999 304 307 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48157-5_29

[5] N. Dimitrioglou 2017 Multicriteria Evaluation of the Internet of Things Potential in Health Care: The Case of Dementia Care. 2017 IEEE 19th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI) 2017 454 462

[6] S. HammerA. SeidererE. AndréT. RistS. KastrinakiC. HondrouA. RaouzaiouK. KarpouzisS. Kollias 2015 Design of a Lifestyle Recommender System for the Elderly: Requirement Gatherings in Germany and GreeceNo Title. the 8th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments 2015 80

[7] S. Helal 2005 The Gator tech smart house: A programmable pervasive space. Computer 38 3 2005 50 60 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2005.107

[8] Hicham RifaiPaula KellyY Shoji DamonM.Z. Berry 2018 Human Activity Detection Patterns: A Pilot Study for Unobtrusive Discovery of Daily Working Routine. International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2018 143 148

[9] A.S. Hwang 2015 Co-Designing Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Environments: Unravelling the Situated Context of Informal Dementia Care. BioMed Research International. 2015 2015 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/720483

[10] R.A. JacobsJ.K. Kruschke 2011 Bayesian learning theory applied to human cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 2 1 2011 8 21 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.80

[11] F. V JensenT.D. Nielsen 2007 Causal and Bayesian Networks. Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs 23 50

[12] F. KellyR. McConkey 2012 Changes in the provision of residential care for adults with an intellectual disability: a national longitudinal study. Tizard Learning Disability Review 17 1 2012 4 10 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1108/13595471211207075

[13] D. Kramer 2015 Developing Navigational Services for People with Down‟s Syndrome. Proceedings - 2015 International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2015 2015 128 131

[14] M. LammingM. Flynn 1994 Forget-me-not: Intimate computing in support of human. FRIEND21, 1994 Int. Symp. on Next Generation Human Interface 1994 4

[15] F. MeilandB.J.J. HattinkT. Overmars-MarxJ. van der LeeuwI. KarkowskiR.M. Dröes 2012 User evaluation of the Rosetta assistive technology system for people with dementia. Alzheimer Europe 2012

[16] J. Mintz 2013 Can smartphones support inclusion for autism in mainstream? Journal of Assistive Technologies 7 4 2013 235 242 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1108/JAT-08-2013-0019

[17] A. Mitseva 2009 ISISEMD: Intelligent system for independent living and self-care of seniors with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia. Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare 7 6 2009 383 399

[18] C. Perera 2014 Context aware computing for the internet of things: A survey. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 16 1 2014 414 454 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/SURV.2013.042313.00197

[19] M. La PlacaH. PigotF. Kabanza 2009 Assistive planning for people with cognitive impairments. Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition hosted by Int’l Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2009)

[20] M.E. Pollack 2003 Autominder: An intelligent cognitive orthotic system for people with memory impairment. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2003 273 282

[21] A. Prange 2015 Robot Companions and Smartpens for Improved Social Communication of Dementia Patients. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion - IUI Companion ’15 2015 65 68

[22] P. Rashidia Mihailidis 2013 A Survey on Ambient Assisted Living Tools for Older Adults. Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Journal of 99 2013 1 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2012.2234129

[23] J. Rodgers 2017 Towards a Treatment for Intolerance of Uncertainty in Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Development of the Coping with Uncertainty in Everyday Situations (CUES©) Programme. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 47 12 2017 3959 3966 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2924-0

[24] A.M. Seelye 2012 Application of cognitive rehabilitation theory to the development of smart prompting technologies. IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

[25] K. Sheikh 2008 Quality-of-context and its use for protecting privacy in context aware systems. Journal of Software 3 3 2008 83 93 DOI:https://doi.org/10.4304/jsw.3.3.83-93

[26] Q.Z. ShengB. Benatallah 2005 ContextUML: A UML-based modeling language for model-driven development of context-aware Web services. 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile Business, ICMB 2005 2005 206 212

[27] A. SixsmithN. Johnson 2004 A smart sensor to detect the falls of the elderly. IEEE Pervasive Computing

[28] B.A. Truong 2005 Modeling uncertainty in context-aware computing. Computer and Information Science, 2005. Fourth Annual ACIS International Conference on 2005 676 681 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIS.2005.89

[29] United Nations, Department of Economic and Social P.D. Affairs 2017 World Population Ageing 2017 United Nations 2017 124 DOI:https://doi.org/ST/ESA/SER.A/348

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