DocumentCode :
1863960
Title :
A novel adaptive approach for home care ambient intelligent environments with an emotion-aware system
Author :
Mowafey, Sherief ; Gardner, Steve
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Adv. Technol., Univ. of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, UK
fYear :
2012
fDate :
3-5 Sept. 2012
Firstpage :
771
Lastpage :
777
Abstract :
The elderly population worldwide has an increasing expectation of well-being and life expectancy. The monitoring of elderly people on an individual basis, in a medical sense, will not be a viable proposition in the future. The infrastructure available is not adequate to meet all expectations and subsequently people will continue to live at home with inadequate care. Prior research has shown an accelerated need for the expansion in the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) domain and to that end we present a novel learning technique for intelligent agents that are embedded in Ambient Intelligent Environments (AIEs). A novel agent that combines an emotion recognition system with a fuzzy logic based learning and adaptation technique provides for an automated self-learning system that constantly adapts to individual requirements. This agent, entitled Health Adaptive Emotion Fuzzy Agent (HAOEFA), has the ability to model and learn the user behaviour in order to control the environment on their behalf with respect to his/her emotional preferences. In addition, the agent incorporates temporal adaption in order to facilitate changing behaviour and preferences within the environment. The results show that such architecture can both provide monitoring and ambient environmental control features such that users with limited physical or cognitive functions can have their well-being advanced with limited external resources.
Keywords :
cognition; cooperative systems; emotion recognition; fuzzy logic; geriatrics; health care; home automation; unsupervised learning; AIE; AmI domain; HAOEFA; accelerated need; adaptation technique; ambient intelligence domain; automated self-learning system; changing behaviour; changing preferences; cognitive functions; elderly people monitoring; emotion recognition system; emotion-aware system; emotional preferences; environmental control features; external resources; fuzzy logic based learning; health adaptive emotion fuzzy agent; home care ambient intelligent environments; intelligent agents; learning technique; life expectancy; physical functions; temporal adaption; user behaviour; well-being; worldwide elderly population; Africa; Asia; Image color analysis; Senior citizens; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Adaptive Intelligent Agents; Ambient Assisted Living Systems; Ambient Intelligent Home Care Environments; Fuzzy Logic Systems; Well-being;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Control (CONTROL), 2012 UKACC International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cardiff
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1559-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1558-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CONTROL.2012.6334727
Filename :
6334727
Link To Document :
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