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Monitoring Meaningful Activities Using Small Low-Cost Devices In A Smart Home, Jordan Tewell, Dympna O'Sullivan, Neil Maiden, James Lockerbie, Simone Stumpf
Monitoring Meaningful Activities Using Small Low-Cost Devices In A Smart Home, Jordan Tewell, Dympna O'Sullivan, Neil Maiden, James Lockerbie, Simone Stumpf
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A challenge associated with an ageing population is increased demand on health and social care, creating a greater need to enable persons to live independently in their own homes. Ambient assistant living technology aims to address this by monitoring occupants’ ‘activities of daily living’ using smart home sensors to alert caregivers to abnormalities in routine tasks and deteriorations in a person’s ability to care for themselves. However, there has been less focus on using sensing technology to monitor a broader scope of so-called ‘meaningful activities’, which promote a person’s emotional, creative, intellectual, and spiritual needs. In this paper, we describe …