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Based on the realization that more than 100 Tokyo children have died after falling from balconies during the last five years, this paper proposes a new system for detecting potentially dangerous situations using red green blue-depth (RGB-D) cameras, and thus aims to help prevent children from falling from balconies. The system, which is based on the results of our investigation into how residents...
This paper presents a serious game designed for children suffering from profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) also know as multihandicap, for their evaluation and cognitive training. The specificities of these children must be taken into account for the choice of both the game feedbacks and interfaces.
The understanding of the pain frequency of patients can facilitate medical professional diagnosis, so self-management tools for pain have gained increasing attention. However, there have been just a limited number of tools for children who are not highly literate. In this study, the first of 10 children aged from 3 to 9 as objects, to clarify the extent of the children's understanding of graphic design...
STEM activities are activities that promote learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. They claim to help children work towards careers in these areas. They promote cognitive and psychomotor development in children, and assist in developing their meta-cognitive knowledge. While typical STEM activities for young children are categorized into broad categories of robotics, physics...
Ultrasound (US) imaging is the primary imaging modality for pediatric hydronephrosis, which manifests as the dilation of the renal collecting system (CS). In this paper, we present a new framework for the segmentation of renal structures, kidney and CS, from 3DUS scans. First, the kidney is segmented using an active shape model-based approach, tailored to deal with the challenges raised by US images...
In Mauritius, toddlers aged three to five usually go to pre-primary schools. In most preprimary schools, all children are in the same class although they do not learn the same thing. Hence, there are lots of problems that preprimary schools face in Mauritius. Most of them do not follow the same curriculum. Also, toddlers do not understand why they are doing some activities since the purpose is not...
Automatic discomfort detection for infants is important in health care, since infants have no ability to express their discomfort. In this paper, we propose an automatic system for detecting and monitoring discomfort of infants based on video analysis. The system is based on supervised learning and classifies previously unseen infants from the testing set in a fully automated way. Our system consists...
Magnetic resonance (MR) images are widely used to diagnose cerebral diseases. The diseases may deform the brain shape, and the deformed region differs among types of diseases. To evaluate the brain shape deformation, MR image registration (IR) has been used. There are some IR methods for brain MR images but they mainly use MR signal based likelihood. We cannot directly apply methods for adult brain...
The patient-centered care paradigm is an influential healthcare management model that can improve the way care is delivered. Autonomous agents may be implemented in hospitals to enhance patient-centered by adding tailored patient interaction without the expense of hiring additional workforce. Observations in the University of Virginia’s Children’s Hospital Physical Therapy unit were conducted to gather...
Figure 2b shows a Meyer wavelet matched to the groupaveraged cognitive Pz P300-ERP. The P300-ERP wavelet tracks the dominant low frequency P300 component well.
Robots have been traditionally in operation away from people, for instance in industrial environments. More recently, there has been a trend for bringing robots to market for helping people. In particular, children constitute a challenging group for robot interaction, due to their curiosity and energy, as well as safety concerns. This paper describes the construction process of an external structure...
Cognitive development is dynamic and opportunistic, following developmental pathways [1]: The same skill can develop in many different ways, depending on the chains of events and opportunities that are presented to the learning individual. What factors shape these developmental pathways?
Many research studies demonstrated that recognition based on ear biometrics offers an accuracy which is comparable to face trait, especially in controlled settings. Our proposal is to exploit it to avoid the problem of newborn swap, which is possible and actually happens, most of all in crowded maternity wards of big hospitals. We tested the viability of this solution using a dataset of ear images...
MR image registration (IR) has been used in brain function analysis, voxel-based-morphometry, etc. The conventional IR methods mainly use MR signal based likelihood. However, they cannot prevent miss registration of different gyri because they do not evaluate correspondence of sulci. Also, we cannot directly apply methods for adult brain to neonatal brain because there are large differences in MR...
In many occasions images are transferred from one device to another with a different display size. In such situations images need to be resized. Image seam carving algorithms attempt to change the size of images while preserving image salient contents with minimum distortion. For this purpose energy map production is an important factor that can help determining the important objects and reducing...
The aim of the study is to investigate the directional connectivity in brain between children who has good handwriting and poor handwriting. Two children participated in the case study. Test subject was the one that showed symptoms of handwriting difficulty and was identified by her teacher as below average writer. Control subject on the other hand was the one that did not show any symptom of handwriting...
In this paper, we present a structured fusion method for facial age group classification. To utilize the structured fusion of shape features and surface features, we introduced the region of certainty (ROC) to not only control the classification accuracy for shape feature based system but also reduce the classification needs on surface feature based system. In the first stage, we design two shape...
Although Disney animated films are often celebrated for depicting positive images of nature and for promoting environmental conservation, Disney's presentation of the environment is somewhat problematic in that characters' relationships with nature are varied and often contradictory between films and an epistemic dichotomy is set up between the “civilized,” cosmopolitan society and “uncivilized,”...
Children are born with their bold exploration nature. They regard eating as part of their learning process. Taking advantage of breakfast cereal intake benefits, the research is proposing a ceramic set that could aid in children learning. Most breakfast set currently available in the market is not attentive to children need and lacking in humanistic design. Based on study of children behaviour and...
Human infants practice their initial, seemingly random arm movements for transforming them into voluntary reaching and grasping actions. With the developing perceptual abilities, infants further explore their environment using the behavior repertoire they have developed, and learn causality relations in the form of affordances, which they use for goal satisfaction and motor planning. This study proposes...
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