Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
Abstract :
This work discusses a integrating framework on health care, home safety, convenience and entertainment for elderly living. Since the increasing number of elderly people will live alone, yet requires more smart and automation home services, the proposed framework attempts to develop a smart living helper to improve their later life. Two systems are proposed in the Ubiquitous Healthcare System (UHS) framework including, the Web-based User Remote Management Service (WURMS) and the Multimodal Interactive Computation Services (MICS). The proposed systems are coordinating couple existing audio-visual and communication techniques, including the speech/sound recognition, the speaker identification, the face identification, the sound source estimation, the text to speech (TTS) and the event recognition. For elders´ friendly interfaces, the proposed services include, (1) Home care services, (2) Emergency assistance, (3) Family interaction, (4) Remote medical services, (5) Security monitoring, and (6) Information services, to improve the elders´ life in more convenience.
Keywords :
assisted living; audio-visual systems; cloud computing; face recognition; human computer interaction; interactive systems; speaker recognition; speech synthesis; ubiquitous computing; user interfaces; MICS; TTS recognition; UHS framework; WURMS; Web-based user remote management service; audio-visual techniques; cloud computing; communication techniques; convenience; elder friendly interfaces; elder life improvement; elderly living; elderly people; emergency assistance; entertainment; event recognition; face identification; family interaction; health care; home care services; home safety; information services; multimodal interactive computation services; remote medical services; security monitoring; smart living helper; smart-automated home services; sound recognition; sound source estimation; speaker identification; speech recognition; text-to-speech recognition; ubiquitous healthcare system framework; Diseases; Face recognition; Microwave integrated circuits; Security; Senior citizens; Speech recognition; Elderly care; Elders Living; Home Care System; Smart Home; Smart living; Ubiquitous Healthcare System;
