DocumentCode :
2060526
Title :
Towards Aging-in-Place: Automatic Assessment of Product Usability for Older Adults with Dementia
Author :
Taati, Babak ; Snoek, Jasper ; Mihailidis, Alex
Author_Institution :
Intell. Assistive Technol. & Syst. Lab. (IATSL), Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
fYear :
2011
fDate :
26-29 July 2011
Firstpage :
205
Lastpage :
212
Abstract :
Considerations of how to facilitate aging-in-place are becoming increasingly pertinent as caregivers are overwhelmed by an aging population. A primary challenge to independent living is the inability to use products associated with tasks of daily living. As improving the usability of these products for the elderly will extend their independence, this work attempts to automate and expedite the assessment of usability using artificial intelligence. Video analysis is performed to temporally segment video of human-product interaction and automatically identify segments in which the human has difficulty operating the product. The approach is applied to the study of water faucet designs for older adults with dementia. Empirical analysis is performed on videos of dementia patients operating various faucet types, demonstrating the accuracy of the temporal segmentation (88.1%) and the ability to estimate the relative advantage of either design in terms of operational ease.
Keywords :
artificial intelligence; biomedical optical imaging; diseases; geriatrics; image segmentation; medical image processing; patient monitoring; video signal processing; aging-in-place; artificial intelligence; daily living; dementia; empirical analysis; human-product interaction; independent living; older adults; operational ease; product usability; temporal segmentation; video analysis; video segmentation; water faucet designs; Algorithm design and analysis; Dementia; Histograms; Humans; Prediction algorithms; Training data; Usability; Activity Monitoring; Aging-in-Place; Smart Home; Temporal Segmentation; Usability Assessment; Video Analysis;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Healthcare Informatics, Imaging and Systems Biology (HISB), 2011 First IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0325-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4407-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HISB.2011.43
Filename :
6061445
Link To Document :
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