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Support for context-aware monitoring in home healthcare

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Mileo, Alessandra | Merico, Davide | Bisiani, Roberto

Affiliations: Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, NOMADIS Research Lab., University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy, E-mail: {alessandra.mileo,davide.merico,roberto.bisiani}@nomadis.unimib.it

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Keywords: Independent Living, non-monotonic reasoning, knowledge representation, wireless sensor networks, situation assessment

DOI: 10.3233/AIS-2010-0052

Journal: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 49-66, 2010

Published: 2010
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Abstract

This paper tackles the problem of supporting independent living and well-being for people that live in their homes and have no critical chronic condition. The paper assumes the presence of a monitoring system equipped with a pervasive sensor network and a non-monotonic reasoning engine. The rich set of sensors that can be used for monitoring in home environments and their sheer number make it quite complex to provide a correct interpretation of collected data for a particular patient. For this reason, we introduce a logic-based context model for situation assessment combined with high level declarative feedback policy specification, and we use logic programming techniques to reason about different pieces of knowledge for prevention.

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