Section: New Results

Monitoring Older People Experiments

Participants : Matias Marin, Etienne Corvée, François Brémond.

This year we have conducted many experiments, especially in Nice and partially in Thessaloniki, Lulea, Taiwan and Dublin, to validate our studies on monitoring older people suffering from various behavioral disorders in the framework of several projects.

DEM@CARE PROJECT

For the project Dem@care (see section  9.2.1.3 ), we use PCs with ASUS cameras, for monitoring and collecting a video dataset associated with metadata (https://team.inria.fr/stars/demcare-chu-dataset/ ). The software CAR is installed to automatically annotate the videos ( https://team.inria.fr/stars/software/car-complex-activity-recognition-component-installation/ ). Data is recorded locally, and backups are made automatically and remotely: one on the server (LAB at the nursery home) and another backup at Inria. These data can be reached locally at the nursery home, thanks to the server located in the lab; also, they are all accessible from Inria network by ssh.

SafEE PROJECT

SafEE project (see section  9.1.1.2 ) experiments in the nursing home have started at the end of 2015, and are made up with different technologies (wifi, wired network, smart phones, Kinect, RFID, tablet...). In the nursing room, 2 PCs with KINECT2 are connected for monitoring the residents and are stored in a database. Another PC with Windows software is configured for SafEE serious game (cognitive games and music box, 1.7 version). Moreover, a Wifi access point will be used by medical staff at the nursery home to connect to a Graphical User Interface through a website designed by INDES team ((http://webrobotics.inria.fr:8081/hop/events ), to consult patient data (their daily activities), from the activity history stored in the database or in real-time. Another device called AromaCare is installed in the rooms, which is a connected aroma diffuser by Wi-Fi. With the app Aroma Therapeutics (smartphone or tablet) we can manage several diffusers, by scheduling different programs each day and change the intensity of the diffusion.

In patients' home the same devices than Nursing Home have to be configured. Today, only recordings are done and stored at Inria.

OTHER PROJECTS at ICP (Institut Claude Pompidou)

ICP has now a remote access by using rdesktop, which is safer than team-viewer screen sharing session. The installation of new experimentations (e.g. praxis, relaxation, serious games) is now in progress: the configuration expected includes PCs with KINECT2 connected at ICP network and accessible from Inria. Some experimentations will use wireless sensors (e.g. accelerometer, pressure), controlled by the app wireless tag (on smartphone or tablet) to measure fine patient activities: motion, kettle utilization, etc.