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Employing multi-modal sensors for personalised smart home health monitoring. (2022)
Thesis
FORBES, G. 2022. Employing multi-modal sensors for personalised smart home health monitoring. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2071646

Smart home systems are employed worldwide for a variety of automated monitoring tasks. FITsense is a system that performs personalised smart home health monitoring using sensor data. In this thesis, we expand upon this system by identifying the limit... Read More about Employing multi-modal sensors for personalised smart home health monitoring..

Fall prediction using behavioural modelling from sensor data in smart homes. (2019)
Journal Article
FORBES, G., MASSIE, S. and CRAW, S. 2020. Fall prediction using behavioural modelling from sensor data in smart homes. Artificial intelligence review [online], 53(2), pages 1071-1091. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-019-09687-7

The number of methods for identifying potential fall risk is growing as the rate of elderly fallers continues to rise in the UK. Assessments for identifying risk of falling are usually performed in hospitals and other laboratory environments, however... Read More about Fall prediction using behavioural modelling from sensor data in smart homes..

Visualisation to explain personal health trends in smart homes.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FORBES, G., MASSIE, S. and CRAW, S. 2021. Visualisation to explain personal health trends in smart homes. Presented at 1st eXplainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in healthcare international workshop 2021 (XAI-Healthcare 2021), 16 June 2021, co-located with 19th Artificial intelligence in medicine (AIME) international conference 2021 (AIME 2021), 15-17 June 2021, [virtual conference]. Hosted on ArXiv [online], article 2109.15125. Available from: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.15125

An ambient sensor network is installed in Smart Homes to identify low-level events taking place by residents, which are then analysed to generate a profile of activities of daily living. These profiles are compared to both the resident's typical prof... Read More about Visualisation to explain personal health trends in smart homes..

Monitoring health in smart homes using simple sensors.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MASSIE, S., FORBES, G., CRAW, S., FRASER, L. and HAMILTON, G. 2018. Monitoring health in smart homes using simple sensors. In Bach, K., Bunescu, R., Farri, O., Guo, A., Hasan, S., Ibrahim, Z.M., Marling, C., Raffa, J., Rubin, J. and Wu, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International workshop on knowledge discovery in healthcare data (KDH), co-located with the 27th International joint conference on artificial intelligence and the 23rd European conference on artificial intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2018), 13 July 2018, Stockholm, Sweden. CEUR workshop proceedings, 2148. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 33-37. Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2148/paper05.pdf

We consider use of an ambient sensor network, installed in Smart Homes, to identify low level events taking place which can then be analysed to generate a resident's profile of activities of daily living (ADLs). These ADL profiles are compared to bot... Read More about Monitoring health in smart homes using simple sensors..

FITsense: employing multi-modal sensors in smart homes to predict falls.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MASSIE, S., FORBES, G., CRAW, S., FRASER, L. and HAMILTON, G. 2018. FITsense: employing multi-modal sensors in smart homes to predict falls. In Cox, M.T., Funk, P. and Begum, S. (eds.) Case-based reasoning research and development: proceedings of the 26th International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR 2018), 9-12 July 2018, Stockholm, Sweden. Lecture notes in computer science, 11156. Cham: Springer [online], pages 249-263. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01081-2_17

As people live longer, the increasing average age of the population places additional strains on our health and social services. There are widely recognised benefits to both the individual and society from supporting people to live independently for... Read More about FITsense: employing multi-modal sensors in smart homes to predict falls..

Employing multi-modal sensors for personalised smart home health monitoring.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FORBES, G. 2019. Employing multi-modal sensors for personalised smart home health monitoring. In Kapetanakis, S. and Borck, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the 27th International conference on case-based reasoning workshop (ICCBR-WS19), co-located with the 27th International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR19), 8-12 September 2019, Otzenhausen, Germany. CEUR workshop proceedings, 2567. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], paper 19, pages 185-190. Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2567/paper19.pdf

As the prevalence of IoT sensor equipment in smart homes continues to rise, long term monitoring for personalised and more representative health tracking has become more accessible. The estimation of physiological health factors such as gait and hear... Read More about Employing multi-modal sensors for personalised smart home health monitoring..

Representing temporal dependencies in human activity recognition.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FORBES, G., MASSIE, S., CRAW, S., FRASER, L. and HAMILTON, G. 2019. Representing temporal dependencies in human activity recognition. In Kapetanakis, S. and Borck, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the 27th International conference on case-based reasoning workshop (ICCBR-WS19), co-located with the 27th International conference on case-based reasoning (ICCBR19), 8-12 September 2019, Otzenhausen, Germany. CEUR workshop proceedings, 2567. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 29-38. Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2567/paper3.pdf

Smart Homes offer the opportunity to perform continuous, long-term behavioural and vitals monitoring of residents, which may be employed to aid diagnosis and management of chronic conditions without placing additional strain on health services. A pro... Read More about Representing temporal dependencies in human activity recognition..

Representing temporal dependencies in smart home activity recognition for health monitoring.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FORBES, G., MASSIE, S., CRAW, S., FRASER, L. and HAMILTON, G. 2020. Representing temporal dependencies in smart home activity recognition for health monitoring. In Proceedings of the 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International joint conference on neural networks (IEEE IJCNN 2020), part of the 2020 IEEE World congress on computational intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2020) and co-located with the 2020 IEEE congress on evolutionary computation (IEEE CEC 2020) and the 2020 IEEE International fuzzy systems conference (FUZZ-IEEE 2020), 19-24 July 2020, [virtual conference]. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article ID 9207480. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN48605.2020.9207480

Long term health conditions, such as fall risk, are traditionally diagnosed through testing performed in hospital environments. Smart Homes offer the opportunity to perform continuous, long-term behavioural and vitals monitoring of residents, which m... Read More about Representing temporal dependencies in smart home activity recognition for health monitoring..

Wifi-based human activity recognition using Raspberry Pi.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FORBES, G., MASSIE, S. and CRAW, S. 2020. Wifi-based human activity recognition using Raspberry Pi. In Alamaniotis, M. and Pan, S. (eds.) Proceedings of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 32nd Tools with artificial intelligence international conference 2020 (ICTAI 2020), 9-11 Nov 2020, [virtual conference]. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 722-730. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI50040.2020.00115

Ambient, non-intrusive approaches to smart home health monitoring, while limited in capability, are preferred by residents. More intrusive methods of sensing, such as video and wearables, can offer richer data but at the cost of lower resident uptake... Read More about Wifi-based human activity recognition using Raspberry Pi..

Optimising for dense deployments in commercial ambient human sensing with WiFi CSI.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FORBES, G. and MASSIE, S. 2024. Optimising for dense developments in commercial ambient human sensing with WiFi CSI. In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International conference on Embedded and real-time computing systems and applications 2024 (RTCSA 2024), 21-23 August 2024, Sokcho, Republic of Korea. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 124-129. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/RTCSA62462.2024.00027

WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) is widely-used in research for human sensing applications, yet its actual deployment in commercial real-time applications remains sparse with few examples. Existing demonstrations in research literature predominan... Read More about Optimising for dense deployments in commercial ambient human sensing with WiFi CSI..