Title
Smart walkers!: enhancing the mobility of the elderly
Abstract
The idea of Smart Walkers is to equip customary rolling walkers with sensors in order to assist users, caregivers and clinicians. The integral part of the Smart Walkers is an autonomous agent which monitors the activity of the user, assesses his physical conditions, and detects potential risks of falls. In this paper, we study methods which enable the agent to recognize the user activity from the sensor measurements. The proposed methods use Conditional Random Fields with features based on discriminant rules. A special case are features which, in order to distinguish between two activities, compare the sensor measurements to thresholds learned by a linear classifier. Experiments with real user data show that the methods achieve a good accuracy; the best results are obtained using "smooth" thresholds based on sigmoid functions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.5555/2034396.2034454
AAMAS
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
detects potential risk,best result,smart walker,autonomous agent,user activity,sensor measurement,smart walkers,conditional random fields,discriminant rule,customary rolling walker,real user data
Conference
0-9826571-7-X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mathieu Sinn15510.41
Pascal Poupart21352105.24