An Intelligent Monitoring System: supporting mentally disabled mothers by monitoring object interactions

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2009-08-31
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In this thesis the research on the design of an intelligent monitoring system to support people with a mental disability with their daily life routines is described. The focus has been on the automatic classification of preparing a bottle for a child. Relevant data was needed for classification, which was not yet available. We therefore built a test environment, consisting of different electronic devices and other objects used when preparing a bottle. These objects were equipped with sensors to detect when the objects were used. We asked subjects to perform several tasks in this test environment. A software platform was built to handle these data from the experiments. Different classification algorithms were tested on these data. The results showed that in 90% of the cases the tasks were correctly classified by the Support Vector Machine algorithm.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen