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Water is a highly abundant nutrient in the human body and monitoring of its regulation is essential to keep the body hydrated. A number of critical health conditions including swelling of the brain and short/long term memory loss are associated with poor or excessive drinking habits. This can be prevented with the use of a real time hydration monitoring system. In this paper we presented AutoHydrate,...
The continued increase of senior population worldwide is causing challenges to existing healthcare and support systems in terms of infrastructure and trained professionals. Recently, smart home environments are being utilized for ubiquitous health monitoring, allowing patients to stay at the comfort of their homes. In this paper we presented a Cloud-Based Smart Home Environment (CoSHE) for home healthcare...
Sound event recognition without the context is challenging for both humans and robots due to the diversity of sound events. Contextual information allows them to disambiguate the sound events, for example, in a home environment. This paper proposes and implements a context-aware sound event recognition for a home service robot that monitors the elderly living alone at home. The location context of...
The ubiquitous use of cameras in a home environment raises privacy concerns, which is one of the major barriers to the deployment of smart home systems for elderly and disabled care. Social robots are equipped with cameras that can witness embarrassing situations of their owners, such as nakedness during a morning bath. In this paper, our proposed solution is to let the robot detect such privacy-sensitive...
This paper proposes and implements an open framework of active auditory learning for a home service robot to serve the elderly living alone at home. The framework was developed to realize the various auditory perception capabilities while enabling a remote human operator to involve in the sound event recognition process for elderly care. The home service robot is able to estimate the sound source...
This paper proposes and implements an auditory perception platform for a home service robot that serves the elderly living alone at home. A layered architecture for the proposed platform was developed to realize the various auditory perception capabilities while enabling a remote caregiver to involve in the sound event recognition process. We successfully implemented the software for this architecture...
This paper proposes and implements a framework for human-robot collaboration in a Mobile Visual Sensor Network (MVSN). A collaborative architecture for the proposed human-integrated MVSN was developed to allow the human operator and robots to collaborate to perform surveillance tasks. We successfully implemented the MVSN so the user can control the deployment of the mobile sensors through his head...
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