Title
Towards creating assistive software by employing human behavior models
Abstract
Assistive software becomes more and more important part of our everyday life. As it is not straightforward to create such a system, the engineering of assistive systems is a topic of current research with different applications in healthcare, education and industry. In this paper we introduce three contributions to this field of research. Whereas most assistive systems use approaches for intention recognition based on training data applicable to specific environments and applications, we introduce a training-free approach. We do that by showing that it is possible to generate probabilistic inference systems from causal models for human behavior. Additionally, we collect a list of requirements for context aware assistive software and human behavior modeling for intention recognition and showed that our system satisfies them. We then introduce a software architecture for assistive systems that provides support for this kind of modeling. In addition to introducing the modeling approach and the architecture we show in an experimental way that our approach is suited for smart environments. The collected list of requirements could help a software engineer create a robust and easily adaptable to changes in the environment assistive software.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.3233/AIS-2012-0148
JAISE
Keywords
Field
DocType
human behavior modeling,assistive system,training-free approach,environment assistive software,context aware assistive software,intention recognition,software engineer,assistive software,software architecture,modeling approach,smart environments
Probabilistic inference,Training set,Smart environment,Architecture,Everyday life,Simulation,Computer science,Software,Human–computer interaction,Software architecture,Causal model
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
3
1876-1364
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.70
20
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank Krüger15310.43
Kristina Yordanova27015.22
Christoph Burghardt3293.35
Thomas Kirste49318.37