Ambient Intelligence as paradigm of a full Automation Process at Home in a real application

According to previsions, Spanish population over 65 years old will soon be an important fraction. For the EU region, old-age dependency ratios will more than double in 2000 to 2050, decreasing, at the same time, the ratio of persons of working age to every elderly people. These data show the need for some helping technologies that make possible to deal with this scenario. One of the possibilities explored is the use of some kind of intelligence at home. This chapter describes the current status of the ambient intelligence (Aarts, Rabaey, & Weber, 2005) initiatives that link multi-agent technologies with personal monitoring for health and wellbeing. The aim is to explore various enabling technologies based on environmental intelligence, by means of which the user interacts with his or her home in various scenarios: home assistance and wellbeing, entertainment, identity management in a home environment, and location management in a home. All these possibilities are intended to satisfy the objective of home assistance and wellbeing, and it fits well within Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme (AAL) (“Ambient Assisted Living,” 2008) partly funded by the European Commission. The authors will focus this technology on a personal health monitor integrated with the multi-agent system for home environments created by Telefónica R+D in cooperation with the Departamento de Informática y Automática of the University of Salamanca and the Computer Science Department of the University of Valladolid, Spain. This research aims to explore the use of several device discovery technologies and ambient intelligence techniques in order to allow the user interaction at home as transparent as possible. To achieve this goal a multi-agent system is proposed, focussing on knowledge representation for multi-agent system communication and personal health monitoring.

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Ambient Intelligence At-Home Laboratory for Human Everyday Life

International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems ◽

10.4018/ijertcs.2019040108 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 117-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Alexander Yu. Meigal ◽

Dmitry G. Korzun ◽

Liudmila I. Gerasimova-Meigal ◽

Alexander V. Borodin ◽

Yulia V. Zavyalova

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Ambient Intelligence ◽

Concept Development ◽

Specific Form ◽

Information Services ◽

Information Value ◽

Human Intelligence ◽

At Home

The relation of artificial intelligence (AI) and human intelligence (HI) still needs better understanding. In this article, the authors develop the fourth brain concept where AI is considered as a specific form of HI evolution. The concept development considers evolutionary and ontogenetic insights on intelligence. The forth brain can be implemented using ambient intelligence (AMI) environments that surround humans in everyday life. AMI environment allows scaffolding and other assistance information services to compensate for the HI function decay. This article proposes an at-home laboratory (AHL) design where an AMI environment is deployed at home and using everyday devices. In this setting, AHL provides a functionally equivalent alternative to the professional healthcare laboratory, though less accurate and advanced in regard to data measurements and the assistance information value.

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Siblings of Children with Mental Retardation Living at Home or in Residential Placement

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry ◽

10.1017/s0021963097002084 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 355-363 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Laurie Eisenberg ◽

Bruce L. Baker ◽

Jan Blacher

Keyword(s):

Mental Retardation ◽

Residential Placement ◽

At Home

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The Bordeaux Automatic Meridian Circle

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100074170 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 48 ◽

pp. 227-228

Author(s):

Y. Requième

Keyword(s):

Mean Square Error ◽

Mean Square ◽

Meridian Circle ◽

The Mean ◽

Full Automation

In spite of important delays in the initial planning, the full automation of the Bordeaux meridian circle is progressing well and will be ready for regular observations by the middle of the next year. It is expected that the mean square error for one observation will be about ±0.”10 in the two coordinates for declinations up to 87°.

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Systematic Modification of Parental Input to Train Language Symbols

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1201.04 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 4-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Barbara Culatta ◽

Donna Horn

Keyword(s):

Language Learning ◽

Meaningful Use ◽

Hearing Impaired ◽

Specific Language ◽

Parental Input ◽

Language Exposure ◽

Therapy Sessions ◽

Impaired Children ◽

Hearing Impaired Children ◽

At Home

This study attempted to maximize environmental language learning for four hearing-impaired children. The children's mothers were systematically trained to present specific language symbols to their children at home. An increase in meaningful use of these words was observed during therapy sessions. In addition, as the mothers began to generalize the language exposure strategies, an increase was observed in the children's use of words not specifically identified by the clinician as targets.

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Iterative Development of a Home Review Program to Promote Preschoolers' Vocabulary Skills: Social Validity and Learning Outcomes

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/2019_lshss-19-00011 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 371-389 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Xigrid Soto ◽

Yagmur Seven ◽

Meaghan McKenna ◽

Keri Madsen ◽

Lindsey Peters-Sanders ◽

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Keyword(s):

High Stress ◽

Social Validity ◽

Home Language ◽

Single Subject ◽

Considerable Difficulty ◽

Home Program ◽

Iterative Development ◽

Vocabulary Skills ◽

Validity Measures ◽

At Home

Purpose This article describes the iterative development of a home review program designed to augment vocabulary instruction for young children (ages 4 and 5 years) occurring at school through the use of a home review component. Method A pilot study followed by two experiments used adapted alternating treatment designs to compare the learning of academic words taught at school to words taught at school and reviewed at home. At school, children in small groups were taught academic words embedded in prerecorded storybooks for 6 weeks. Children were given materials such as stickers with review prompts (e.g., “Tell me what brave means”) to take home for half the words. Across iterations of the home intervention, the home review component was enhanced by promoting parent engagement and buy-in through in-person training, video modeling, and daily text message reminders. Visual analyses of single-subject graphs, multilevel modeling, and social validity measures were used to evaluate the additive effects and feasibility of the home review component. Results Social validity results informed each iteration of the home program. The effects of the home program across sites were mixed, with only one site showing consistently strong effects. Superior learning was evident in the school + home review condition for families that reviewed words frequently at home. Although the home review program was effective in improving the vocabulary skills of many children, some families had considerable difficulty practicing vocabulary words. Conclusion These studies highlight the importance of using social validity measures to inform iterative development of home interventions that promote feasible strategies for enhancing the home language environment. Further research is needed to identify strategies that stimulate facilitators and overcome barriers to implementation, especially in high-stress homes, to enrich the home language environments of more families.

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