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Behavior Recognition in Smart Homes

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One application of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) that supports people in their daily activities is the smart home, which has become a popular topic for research over the past 10 years. The smart home can support the occupant in a variety of ways: watching for potential risks, detecting any abnormality, adapting home for environmental conditions, inducing behavioral change, and many more. For a smart home to support its occupant, it must recognize their behaviors, which is the first part of the smart home problem. In this chapter, we introduce a method that can accurately recognize the occupant’s behaviors. We demonstrate our algorithm on sensor data from a real smart home.

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  1. Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia

    Sook-Ling Chua

  2. Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Stephen Marsland & Hans W. Guesgen

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  1. Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Joost van Hoof

  2. School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

    George Demiris

  3. Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Eveline J.M. Wouters

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Chua, SL., Marsland, S., Guesgen, H. (2015). Behavior Recognition in Smart Homes. In: van Hoof, J., Demiris, G., Wouters, E. (eds) Handbook of Smart Homes, Health Care and Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01904-8_22-2

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    Behavior Recognition in Smart Homes
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01904-8_22-2

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    Behavior Recognition in Smart Homes
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01904-8_22-1

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