Rapid specification and automated generation of prompting systems to assist people with dementia

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 299-318

  Hoey, Jesse ^a   Pltz, Thomas ^b   Jackson, Dan ^b   Monk, Andrew ^c   Pham, Cuong ^b   Olivier, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Behavior analysis; Dementia; POMDP; Prompting systems

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPECIFICATIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIFE; ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENT; KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN METHODS; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; POMDP;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79958236542     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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