Document details

Find It - An Assistant Home Agent

Author(s): Costa, Angelo cv logo 1 ; Martinez-Martin, Ester cv logo 2 ; del Pobil, Angel P. cv logo 3 ; Simões, Ricardo cv logo 4 ; Novais, Paulo cv logo 5

Date: 2013

Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/11110/319

Origin: CiencIPCA

Subject(s): Assistant Home Agent


Description
Cognitive impaired population face with innumerable problems in their daily life. Surprisingly, they are not provided with any help to perform those tasks for which they have difficulties. As a consequence, it is necessary to develop systems that allow those people to live independently and autonomously. Living in a technological era, people could take advantage of the available technology, being provided with some solutions to their needs. This paper presents a platform that assists users with remembering where their possessions are. Mainly, an object recognition process together with an intelligent scheduling applications are integrated in an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) environment. This work is partially funded by National Funds through the FCT-Fundac¸ ˜ao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within projects PEst-OE/EEI/UI0752/2011, and PEst-C/CTM/LA0025/2011. Also project AAL4ALL, cofinanced by the European Community Fund FEDER through COMPETE - Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade (POFC). Authors also want to thank the support received from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (DPI2011-27846), by Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEO/2009/052) and by Fundacio Caixa Castello-Bancaixa (P1-1B2011-54).
Document Type Article
Language English
delicious logo  facebook logo  linkedin logo  twitter logo 
degois logo
mendeley logo

Related documents



    Financiadores do RCAAP

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Universidade do Minho   Governo Português Ministério da Educação e Ciência Programa Operacional da Sociedade do Conhecimento EU