Ambient Intelligence:Everyday Living Aid System for Elders

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Fundamentals about AmI Living Aid System: Reviews of Related Works Everyday Living Aid System: Our Contribution Trends of AmI Conclusions

1. Fundamentals for AmI

“The most profound technologies are those that disappear"

------by Mark Weiser

(father of ubiquitous computing)

1.1 What’s Ambient Intelligence?

1.1 What’s Ambient Intelligence?

Distributed electronic intelligence Characterized by an environment:

1) where technology is embedded, hidden in the background

2) that is sensitive, adaptive, and responsive to the presence of people and objects

3) that augments activities through smart non-explicit assistance

4) that preserves security, privacy and trustworthiness while utilizing information when needed and appropriate.

1.2 Why Ambient Intelligence?

Motivation: Economic Consideration: User-centered design: user is placed in the

center of the design activity. Technical Description To provide a context aware system, using

unobtrusive computing devices that will improve the quality of people’s lives by acknowledging their needs, requirements and preferences and thus acting in some way on their behalf.

1.3 What Techniques Needed?

Ubiquitous Computing Ubiquitous Communications

Transparent Interface

Ambient Intelligence

1.3 What Techniques Needed?

Ubiquitous Computing (Ambient Agents):

Refer to an environment where electronic devices and processors are scattered all around us

Ubiquitous Communications:

Manners in which ambient agents can talk to each other

Transient Interface:

Allows the connections of systems and equipments with others without modification of system characters or operational procedures on either side of the interface

1.4 Short History of AmI

1991: Mark Weiser defined the next generation of computing: ubiquitous computing

1998-1999: Philips Research: Ambient Intelligence,

MIT Oxygen project 2002: Philips Research: HomeLab Established 2004 : 1st European symposium on Ambients

Intelligence (EUSAI) was held

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Adaptive Estimation of Emotion Generation

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Interactive Messaging and Reminder Display

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Talk Assistant System

3 Everyday Living Aid System

General Structure

Emergency Passively Triggered System

Walking Assistant Robotic System

Tele-Rehabilitation System

Living Aid System

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Emergency Passively Triggered System

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Tele-Rehabilitation System

Future of AmI

The Future of AmI is still AmI----Why?

Now, AmI is Imagine framework

Realization

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Conclusions

Preliminary Introduction to AmI Review Relevant Works on Living Aid

Systems Propose a Framework for Everyday Living

Aid System for Elders Trends of AmI

Tele-care

Definition :

Tele-care is the continuous, automatic and remote monitoring of real time emergencies and lifestyle changes over time in order to manage the risks associated with independent living.

Impact on patients

Improve capabilities to record, measure, and analysis data

Better diagnoses Avoid collapse Promote healthy life Save life

Cardiology

Heart disease still remains one of the major causes of premature deaths.

Every 7 minutes in Canada, someone dies from heart disease or stroke.

Cardiovascular disease accounts for the death of more Canadians than any other disease.

some of the causes of heart disease can be foreseen and prevented.

ex. cholesterol levels, blood pressure levels, family history etc.

Body Area Network

Wearable computing devices and sensors monitoring and logging vital parameters of

patients (heart disease, diabetes,..)

Challenges :

Safety Privacy Integration of data into medical databases Compatibility

HOVISSE (Haptic Osteosynthesis Virtual Intra-operative Surgery)

TeCaRob :

allows caregivers to provide assistance and services remotely

TeCaRob :

allows caregivers to provide assistance and services remotely

enables various telecare practices including tele-rehabilitation, tele-nursing,tele-medicine, tele-psychotherapy

prof. El-Saddik

Shichao Liu Sultan Alhazmi