Title: Tony Tam
1Intelligent Homes and Supportive Environments
Tony Tam Candidate MHSc. Clinical
Engineering Tony.Tam_at_utoronto.ca Contributions
from Professor Alex Mihailidis Tracy Lee Brent
Carmichael Jennifer Boger
2Think outside the box!
Homes
Hospital (BOX)
3Presentation Overview
- Objectives of Intelligent Homes and Supportive
Environments - Basic Intelligence
- Environmental control
- Safety and Security
- Supportive Environments
- Health Monitoring
- Emergency Response
- Home Telehealth
- Automated prompting for rehabilitation
4Objectives of Intelligent Homes and Supportive
Environments
- Support older adults who want to remain in their
own homes for as long as possible - Allow them to maintain control over their
environments and activities of daily living (ADL)
for a sense of well-being and dignity. - A concept known as Aging In Place
5Difficulties
- Ensuring safety, especially for older adults who
live alone and/or have a mental disability - Common causes of accidental injury for older
adults in the home are - Falls (1 in 3 experience a fall over the course
of a year), (Johnson et al., 2001) - Poisoning from medication, gases, and vapours
- Burns and scalds from cooking and hot water
Professor Alex Mihailidis, GERO830 - Human
Factors, Technology and Safety
6Opportunities for Supporting Older Adults
- Provide an environment that is constantly
monitored to ensure safety - Automate specific tasks that an individual is
unable to perform - Alert helpers or caregivers should the occupant
be in difficulties - Enable and empower the user
- Facilitate the rehabilitation of individuals.
Professor Alex Mihailidis, GERO830 - Human
Factors, Technology and Safety
7Basic Intelligence - Environmental Control
The Adaptive House
- Energy control
- Automatic heating
- Humidity control
- Automatic screens and curtains
- Automatic lighting at night
- Automatic sprinklers
http//www.cs.colorado.edu/mozer/house/
- The Adaptive House, University of Colorado
- Uses artificial neural networks to learn the
patterns and desires of its occupants - Automatically adjusts heating, ventilation, air
conditioning, water heater, and interior
lighting.
8Basic Intelligence - Safety Security
- Security entry for health care personnel
- Medication Adherence
- Intruder alarms
- Smoke alarms
- Automatic shut off of stoves
- Water temperature regulation
Professor Alex Mihailidis, GERO830 - Human
Factors, Technology and Safety
9Basic Intelligence Safety Security
- Water level monitor
- Normal use - unless flood levels reached
- Prevent flooding and wasted water
http//www.bath.ac.uk/bime/bath_monitor_proj.htm
10Supportive Environments
11Supportive Environments - ADL
- One of the biggest predictors of successful
aging-in-place is the independent completion of
Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
12Supportive Environments Health Monitoring
- Gloucester Smart Home from the Bath Institute of
Medical Engineering - Use of various sensors to detect which task a
person is completing, and learns about the
persons daily routine - Notices variations over time, possibly indicating
declining health
13Supportive Environments Cognitive Support
- Aware Home, Georgia Tech
- Help older adults complete activities of daily
living - Take medication
- Locate lost items (RFID)
- Reminders if they become distracted, (e.g. recipe
reminders)
http//www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/irfan/presentations/c
fh2001_files/frame.htm
14Supportive Environments - Connected
- Provides electronic snapshots and portraits of
the persons activities - Peace of mind to allow aging family members to
age in place (like next door neighbor checking in)
http//www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ecl/projects/dfp/inde
x.html
15Emergency Response
- Actively monitor and ensure health and safety
- Detect various emergency situations
- The person becoming ill
- Falling and becoming injured
- Determine appropriate response
16Existing Emergency Response Solutions
Call Buttons and Communicator
Worn Fall Detector
http//www.lifelinesys.com/howworks/index.php
http//ntec.org.uk/gm2.doc
17Detection of Falls
http//www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/projects/support
iveenvironments/
18Detection of Falls (Intelligent Assistive
Technology and Systems Lab)
19Active Health Monitoring
- Stroke, Heart Attack
- Injury (burns, scalds)
- Poisoning (medication, smoke)
- Research wearable sensors, monitoring ADL
- Is this person reading, asleep, unconscious?
http//www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/projects/support
iveenvironments/
20Home Telehealth
- Comfort of individuals own homes
- Less time driving for nurses, more time visiting
http//hth.marchnetworks.com/pdf/hthbackgrounder.p
df
21Tele-Rehabilitation
- Maintenance of a rehabilitation program such as
exercises normally declines with time, especially
if the patient is left to their own motivation. - Range of motion glove
- Grip meter
- pinch meter
22Automated Prompting Devices for People with
Dementia
- Greatest predictor of successful aging-in-place
is the independent completion of ADL activities - Assist users with ADL through sensing and
automated prompting - Hand Washing, Toileting
Mihailidis, Carmichael, and Boger. The use of
computer vision in an intelligent environment to
support aging-in-place, safety, and independence
in the home. 2003
23Thank you!
- For more information on current research at the
- Intelligent Assistive Technology and Systems Lab
- Intelligent environments and smart homes for
older adults - Automated prompting devices for people with
dementia - Home monitoring and emergency response systems
- Applications of ubiquitous and pervasive
computing in healthcare
http//www.ot.utoronto.ca/iatsl/
24References
- Adapted from Professor Alex Mihailidis course
GERO830 - Human Factors, Technology and Safety - Dhurjaty, S. (2001). Challenges of
Telerehabilitation in the Ho me Environment.
InProceedings of the State of the Science
Conference on Telerehabilitation , 89 93. - Johnson, M., A. Cusick, et al. (2001).
"Home-Screen A short scale to measure fall risk
in the home." Public Health Nursing 18(3)
169-177. - Ogawa, M., Ochiai, S., Shoji, K., Nishihara, M.,
Togawa, T. (2000). An attempt of monitoring daily
activities at home. Presented at World Congress
on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering ,
Melville American Association of Physicists in
Medicine.