Find it : an assistant home agent

• Author(s): Costa, Ângelo ; Martinez-Martin, Ester ; P. del Pobil, Angel ; Simões, Ricardo ; Novais, Paulo
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/26650
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

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.