Authors:
Ahmad Rabie
and
Uwe Handmann
Affiliation:
University of Applied Sciences Ruhr-West, Germany
Keyword(s):
Privacy and Security, Multimodal Biometrics, Assisting Systems, Data Fusion.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Bayesian Models
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Biometrics
;
Biometrics and Pattern Recognition
;
Classification
;
ICA, PCA, CCA and other Linear Models
;
Multimedia
;
Multimedia Signal Processing
;
Pattern Recognition
;
Robotics
;
Software Engineering
;
Telecommunications
;
Theory and Methods
Abstract:
As smart homes are being more and more popular, the needs of finding assisting systems which interface
between users and home environments are growing. Furthermore, for people living in such homes, elderly
and disabled people in particular and others in general, it is totally important to develop devices, which can
support and aid them in their ordinary daily life. We focused in this work on sustaining privacy issues of
the user during a real interaction with the surrounding home environment. A smart person-specific assistant
system for services in home environment is proposed. The role of this system is the assisting of persons by
controlling home activities and guiding the adaption of Smart-Home-Human interface towards the needs of
the considered person. At the same time the system sustains privacy issues of it’s interaction partner. As a
special case of medical assisting the system is so implemented, that it provides for elderly or disabled people
person-specific medical assistanc
e. The system has the ability of identifying its interaction partner using some
biometric features. According to the recognized ID the system, first, adopts towards the needs of recognized
person. Second the system represents person-specific list of medicines either visually or auditive. And third
the system gives an alarm in the case of taking medicament either later or earlier as normal taking time.
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