A planning system based on Markov decision processes to guide people with dementia through activities of daily living

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 323-333

  Boger, Jennifer ^a   Hoey, Jesse ^a   Poupart, Pascal ^b   Boutilier, Craig ^a   Fernie, Geoff ^c   Mihailidis, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living (ADLs); Autonomous guidance; Dementia; Markov decision process (MDP)

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MARKOV PROCESSES; NURSING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AUTONOMOUS GUIDANCE; COMPUTERIZED GUIDANCE SYSTEM; DEMENTIA; MARKOV DECISION PROCESS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEMENTIA; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SELF HELP;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DEMENTIA; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SOFTWARE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33645712239     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.864480     Document Type: Article

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