THE WEARABLE SENSOR DEVICES FOR DETECTING CONVERSATIONAL EXPERIENCES

2007 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 427-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
SADANORI ITO ◽  
SHOICHIRO IWASAWA ◽  
YASUYUKI SUMI ◽  
KENJI MASE

We have developed a wearable device that records the activities of human–human and human–artifact interactions. Using microphones and cameras, the device imitates human perception, recording personal and social everyday-life experiences in multiple modalities, such as voice and visible scenes. These sensors record the perceived experiences continuously, and detect and index interactions from nonverbal behavior. The indexed stored experiences can serve as the first step toward a multimodal knowledge base created from daily life. An infrared LED ID tag system detects interactions, in terms of the ID and the relative positions of objects within the camera's visual field. In this study, we propose an "interaction scope" which is defined as the range of relative human–object positions that have a high probability of occurring in conversational interactions. Analysis of experimental conversational sessions confirms that this interaction scope exists and can represent these interactions naturally. We also demonstrate that our tag system effectively detects and measures the proposed interaction scope.

2017 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne T. E. Heberlein ◽  
Dennis C. Turner ◽  
Marta B. Manser

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. S310
Author(s):  
E. Komulainen ◽  
K. Meskanen ◽  
P. Jylhä ◽  
J. Lahti ◽  
E. Isometsä ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ijeoma Azodo ◽  
Robin Williams ◽  
Aziz Sheikh ◽  
Kathrin Cresswell

BACKGROUND Wearable sensors connected via networked devices have the potential to generate data that may help to automate processes of care, engage patients, and increase health care efficiency. The evidence of effectiveness of such technologies is, however, nascent and little is known about unintended consequences. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to explore the opportunities and challenges surrounding the use of data from wearable sensor devices in health care. METHODS We conducted a qualitative, theoretically informed, interview-based study to purposefully sample international experts in health care, technology, business, innovation, and social sciences, drawing on sociotechnical systems theory. We used in-depth interviews to capture perspectives on development, design, and use of data from wearable sensor devices in health care, and employed thematic analysis of interview transcripts with NVivo to facilitate coding. RESULTS We interviewed 16 experts. Although the use of data from wearable sensor devices in health and care has significant potential in improving patient engagement, there are a number of issues that stakeholders need to negotiate to realize these benefits. These issues include the current gap between data created and meaningful interpretation in health and care contexts, integration of data into health care professional decision making, negotiation of blurring lines between consumer and medical care, and pervasive monitoring of health across previously disconnected contexts. CONCLUSIONS Stakeholders need to actively negotiate existing challenges to realize the integration of data from wearable sensor devices into electronic health records. Viewing wearables as active parts of a connected digital health and care infrastructure, in which various business, personal, professional, and health system interests align, may help to achieve this.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zixuan Wang ◽  
Yuki Murai ◽  
David Whitney

AbstractPerceiving the positions of objects is a prerequisite for most other visual and visuomotor functions, but human perception of object position varies from one individual to the next. The source of these individual differences in perceived position and their perceptual consequences are unknown. Here, we tested whether idiosyncratic biases in the underlying representation of visual space propagate across different levels of visual processing. In Experiment 1, using a position matching task, we found stable, observer-specific compressions and expansions within local regions throughout the visual field. We then measured Vernier acuity (Experiment 2) and perceived size of objects (Experiment 3) across the visual field and found that individualized spatial distortions were closely associated with variations in both visual acuity and apparent object size. Our results reveal idiosyncratic biases in perceived position and size, originating from a heterogeneous spatial resolution that carries across the visual hierarchy.


Author(s):  
Hirotaka Osawa ◽  
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Jun Mukai ◽  
Michita Imai ◽  

We propose an anthropomorphization framework that determines an object’s body image. This framework directly intervenes and anthropomorphizes objects in ubiquitous-computing environments through robotic body parts shaped like those of human beings, which provide information through spoken directions and body language. Our purpose is to demonstrate that an object acquires subjective representations through anthropomorphization. Using this framework, people can more fully understand instructions given by an object. We designed an anthropomorphization framework that changes the body image by attaching body parts. We also conducted experiments to evaluate this framework. Results indicate that the site at which an anthropomorphization device is attached influences human perception of the object’s virtual body image, and participants in experiments understood several instructions given by the object more clearly. Results also indicate that participants better intuited their devices’ instructions and movement in ubiquitous-computing environments.


2018 ◽  
pp. 1153-1176
Author(s):  
Niamh Caprani ◽  
Paulina Piasek ◽  
Cathal Gurrin ◽  
Noel E. O'Connor ◽  
Kate Irving ◽  
...  

In this paper the authors investigate the motivations for life-long collections and how these motivations can inform the design of future lifelog systems. Lifelogging is the practice of automatically capturing data from daily life experiences with mobile devices, such as smartphones and wearable cameras. Lifelog archives can benefit both older and younger people; therefore lifelog systems should be designed for people of all ages. The authors believe that people would be more likely to adopt lifelog practices that support their current motivations for collecting items. To identify these motivations, ten older and ten younger participants were interviewed. It was found that motivations for and against life-long collections evolve as people age and enter different stages, and that family is at the core of life-long collections. These findings will be used to guide the design of an intergenerational lifelog browser.


2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Line Caes ◽  
Abigail Jones ◽  
Abbie Jordan

EBN engages readers through a range of online social media activities to debate issues important to nurses and nursing. EBN Opinion papers highlight and expand on these debates.


2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1004-1018
Author(s):  
Ninitha Maivorsdotter ◽  
Joacim Andersson

Research has pursued salutogenic and narrative approaches to deal with questions about how everyday settings are constitutive for different health practices. Healthy behavior is not a distinguishable action, but a chain of activities, often embedded in other social practices. In this article, we have endeavored to describe such a chain of activities guided by the salutogenic claim of exploring the good living argued by McCuaig and Quennerstedt. We use biographical material written by Karl Ove Knausgaard who has created a life story entitled My Struggle. The novel is selected upon an approach influenced by Brinkmann who stresses that literature can be seen as a qualitative social inquiry in which the novelist is an expert in transforming personal life experiences into common human expressions of life. The study illustrates how research with a broader notion of health can convey experiences of health, thereby complementing (and sometimes challenging) public health evidence.


2020 ◽  
Vol 287 (1930) ◽  
pp. 20200825
Author(s):  
Zixuan Wang ◽  
Yuki Murai ◽  
David Whitney

Perceiving the positions of objects is a prerequisite for most other visual and visuomotor functions, but human perception of object position varies from one individual to the next. The source of these individual differences in perceived position and their perceptual consequences are unknown. Here, we tested whether idiosyncratic biases in the underlying representation of visual space propagate across different levels of visual processing. In Experiment 1, using a position matching task, we found stable, observer-specific compressions and expansions within local regions throughout the visual field. We then measured Vernier acuity (Experiment 2) and perceived size of objects (Experiment 3) across the visual field and found that individualized spatial distortions were closely associated with variations in both visual acuity and apparent object size. Our results reveal idiosyncratic biases in perceived position and size, originating from a heterogeneous spatial resolution that carries across the visual hierarchy.


Author(s):  
Hamilton Viana Chaves ◽  
Letícia Ferreira de Melo Maia ◽  
Ana Lídia de Araújo Bezerra ◽  
Jefferson Castro de Oliveira ◽  
Thiago Colares Patriota ◽  
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