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A platform for health emergency warning and wandering behaviour detection supporting people with Intellectual Disability

Authors:

Athina Grammatikopoulou,

Nikos Grammalidis,

Maria Papadogiorgaki,

Michalis ZervakisAuthors Info & Claims

PETRA '22: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

Pages 694 - 699

https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534773

Published: 11 July 2022 Publication History

Abstract

People with intellectual disabilities (ID) encounter several problems in their daily life, regarding the interaction with their environment, the communication with their caregivers and their mobility. Mobile and modern smartwatch applications have great potential to provide early warning for medical emergencies, such as fever, oxygen saturation decline and, recently, Covid-19 disease. Furthermore, such apps can also track their position, if necessary, and even automatically detect wandering behaviour. In this paper, we propose a platform that will be able to a) automatically recognize health emergency situations and/or detection of wandering behaviour based on smartwatch/smartphone sensors, b) provide appropriate notifications to both user and caregiver when needed. The final system is currently developed within a Greek national research project and a pilot implementation will be evaluated by a Greek assistive center for people with ID.

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A platform for health emergency warning and wandering behaviour detection supporting people with Intellectual Disability
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PETRA '22: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

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DOI:10.1145/3529190

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Papadogiorgaki MGrammalidis NGrammatikopoulou AApostolidis KBei EGrigoriadis KZafeiris SLivanos GMezaris VZervakis M(2023)An Integrated Support System for People with Intellectual DisabilityElectronics10.3390/electronics1218380312:18(3803)Online publication date: 8-Sep-2023
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