| The Y Cancellation Test App University of Alberta | Product | 2015-10-26 | Victor Guana, Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia |
| Best Demo award, AGE-WELL 2017 conference | Scientific Excellence - Leadership | 2017-10-17 | Victor Fernandez |
| Multi-Occupant Movement Tracking in Smart Home Environments University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2015-01-01 | Masoud Vatanpour Azghandi, Ioanis Nikolaidis, Eleni Stroulia |
| Face-to-face meeting with York Care Centre (Partner) regarding Virtual Gym and Vibrant Minds projects University of Alberta, University of Waterloo | Networking and Partnerships | 2017-10-19 | "Jennifer Donovan", Victor Fernandez, Eleni Stroulia, Lili Liu, Christine Daum |
| Site visit to Chinese Christian Wing Kei Nursing Home Association and meeting regarding collaborationMembers of WP6.1@UAlberta and 6.2 traveled to Calgary to meet with the Board Chair, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Care, Care Managers, and Rehabilitation and Recreation Manager to tour their facilities and discuss potential collaboration. Specific projects and technologies discussed included Vibrant Minds, Virtual Gym, Digital Storytelling and Dementia, Ambient Activity Technology (on behalf of Mark Chignell and Marc Kanik), Activity Localization, and Wandering Risk. A follow up meeting will be held in January 2017 to identify a timeline for unrolling projects at Wing Kei facilities. For more information on Wing Kei, please visit: www.wingkei.org University of Alberta, University of Waterloo | Networking and Partnerships | 2017-12-01 | Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia, Christine Daum, Victor Fernandez, Noelannah Neubauer |
| How Do Developers Solve Software-engineering Tasks on Model-based Code Generators? An Empirical Study Design University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2015-09-28 | Victor Guana, Eleni Stroulia |
| Detecting Depression From VoiceDepression is the most common psychological disorder affecting more than 300 million people worldwide and is considered as the leading cause of disability worldwide. Current depression diagnostic instruments require active participation of the depressed individuals. But due to lack of awareness and the nature of the disorder itself, a large percentage of population refrain from seeking expert assistance.
Recent studies reveal that depression is reflected in behavioral fluctuations of certain day-to-day activities and also in the ways people talk. These findings have motivated a wave of research efforts aimed at developing automated depression detection methods based on vocal acoustic features.Introduction of Depression Recognition Sub-Challenge (DSC) as a part of Audio-Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC) since 2013 has accelerated interventions in depression recognition combining different modalities, i.e., audio, video and text features. Different directions of feature engineering, algorithms and contextual information incorporation has been explored in four challenges taken place this far. In our work, we are interested in developing a practical system that can capture the audio of the users’ voice during phone-call conversations and analyze it to detect their depression level. A pre-requisite for such a system is a model capable of detecting evidence of depression from conversational audio. In this work we explored the effectiveness of different machine learning algorithms for the anticipated depression detection model with the currently available AVEC data sets. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2019-05-28 | Mashrura Tasnim, Eleni Stroulia |
| Digital storytelling and dementia: Using a participatory design approachOwens, H., & Park, E. (2016). Digital storytelling and dementia: Using a participatory design approach. Paper presented the 45th Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting, Canadian Association on Gerontology, Montreal, QC, Canada. | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2016-10-21 | Hollis Owens, Elly Park |
| Indoor Localization: A Cost-Effectiveness vs. Accuracy StudyRecognizing the occupants' movement and locations within a home is a basic functionality, underlying a variety of smart-home services, including energy management, ambient-environment control, and assistive-living services for seniors and people with disabilities. The outdoor-localization variant of the problem is effectively addressed with the use of GPS; however, GPS does not work well inside buildings, which makes the indoor-positioning problem a very active research topic. In this paper, we report on a study of the indoor-localization problem, relying on easy-to-deploy, inexpensive, BLE-enabled stickers and beacons and WiFi access points. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-06-15 | Parisa Mohebbi, Ioanis Nikolaidis, Eleni Stroulia |
| PhyDSL:A Code-generation Environment for 2D Physics-based GamesVideo-game design and development involves a variety of professionals working together to create games with engaging content, and an efficient and flexible software architecture. However, more often than not, video-game development environments are designed for software developers, supporting programming tasks agnostic of the needs of the non-computer experts on the team. Code-generation environments offer an alternative methodology to building families of software systems that systematically differ from each other. They provide high-level domain-specific languages that express the domain concepts and features of interest, and isolate the low-level implementation concerns, so that even non-programming experts can prototype and efficiently create software systems. In this paper we describe PhyDSL, a code-generation environment for the creation of mobile physics-based games in 2D. We report how we have used PhyDSL for the rapid prototyping of customizable and cost effective games based on physics.
University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2014-10-22 | Victor Guana, Eleni Stroulia |
| Rapid Deployment and Evaluation of Mobile Serious Games: A Cognitive Assessment Case StudyTiffany Tong, Victor Guana, Andrea Jovanovic, Fiona Tran, Golnaz Mozafari, Mark Chignell, and Eleni Stroulia. Rapid Deployment and Evaluation of Mobile Serious Games: A Cognitive Assessment Case Study. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2015. Procedia Computer Science, 69, 96-103. University of Toronto, University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2015-11-23 | Tiffany Tong, Victor Guana, "Andrea Jovanovic", "Fiona Tran", "Golnaz Mozafari", Mark Chignell, Eleni Stroulia |
| Serious Games: Rehabilitation Fuzzy Grammar for Exercise and Therapy Compliance Serious Games (SG) are advocated as a technology for engaging and motivating a variety of activities, such as learning and exercising. The motivating intuition is that infusing activities with game mechanics should make them more interesting and entertaining, resulting in increased practice time, and consequently, improved performance. In our work we are interestedintherolethatseriousgamescanplayinrehabilitation, relying on affordable, accessible and increasingly precise biomechanic sensors, such as the KinectTM. In this paper, we describe a KinectTM -based system that guides players through their prescribed rehabilitation-exercise regimen at home, after a sports injury. The system is endowed with a grammar, in terms of which the rehabilitation exercises can be precisely specified by physical therapists, and a fuzzy-logic-based component that discerns in real time, whether the user “correctly” follows the prescribed regimen. To respect the privacy of the player, the system mimics the postures into an avatar. We demonstrate our system through the development of three different games. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2015-10-16 | Victor Fernandez, Eleni Stroulia, " Luis E. Oliva", " Francisco Gonzalez", "Claudio Castillo" |
| Hacking Health – Edmonton 2016Media on the Event
1. The second U of A Health Hack-a-thon takes place this weekend - CBC Edmonton AM, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016
2. Edmonton healers and hackers join forces - Metro Edmonton, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016
3. Hackers to help seniors access health care - Global News, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016
4. Hacking Health Hackathon goes at the University of Alberta - 630 CHED, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016
5. Global News, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016
6. Technological solutions to health problems - CTV Two, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016
From Fernandez:
In Hacking Health 2016 in Edmonton, I participated as software engineering mentor, I brought my expertise and experience in developing games for rehabilitation, Kinect, CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training, and virtual simulation of human behaviour. The team, "SPINOIS NAP", was very useful the information about Kinect hardware in the implementation. They present a prototype which helps to maintain the correct posture during long hours seating in front of the computer.
University of Alberta, University of Toronto, KITE Research Institute at University Health Network | KTEE - Knowledge Mobilization | 2016-02-19 | Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia, Elly Park, Victor Fernandez, Victor Guana, Mark Chignell, Alex Mihailidis, Peyman Azad-Khaneghah, Noelannah Neubauer |
| Overview of the Smart-Condo Research Program University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Leadership | 2017-02-08 | Eleni Stroulia |
| Sensor Design, Placement, and Data Fusion in the SmartCondoWe discuss the design and implementation of the SmartCondo sensor sub-system. We review the accumulated experience of integrating a system of heterogeneous sensors and protocols to provide essential services to an indoor localization and activity recognition system. Early design constraints included the need for passive non-intrusive monitoring. This led to a coverage-oriented deployment methodology and corresponding optimization problems. We will comment on the challenges that real deployments brought, beyond what was anticipated during the design phase. We discuss how the subsequent integration of multiple sensing modalities and the "black box" interaction with off-the-shelf systems, such as Estimotes, led to a particular sensor fusion methodology. It also demonstrated that the synchronization across heterogeneous sensor systems is a crucial factor to accuracy. Finally, we will comment on the potential of integrating sensors in the building construction process, rather than installing them as retrofits, and what kinds of opportunities for energy harvesting exist that could satisfy the energy needs of the sensors. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Leadership | 2017-12-18 | Ioanis Nikolaidis |
| Smart homes and home health monitoring technologies for older adults: a systematic literature review University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Leadership | 2015-10-23 | Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia, Ioanis Nikolaidis, Antonio Miguel-Cruz, Adriana Rios-Rincon |
| Virtual Gym: An Exergames Platform for Seniors (oral presentation)Exergames are serious games aimed at motivating users to exercise regularly and correctly. Specifying exercise sessions for an individual user is a complex, effort-intensive task that requires expertise in game controllers, game engines, software engineering, human-computer interaction, and physical education. It becomes even more challenging when he target audience involves seniors who may be unfamiliar with technology and may experience physical infirmities. We have developed a Kinect-based system that supports the specification of exercise routines in terms of a high-level language, generates a game that fluidly guides seniors through an automatically personalized version of these exercise routines, and collects data to evaluate the players performance and his/her improvement over time. Our system includes an editor that enables rehabilitation therapists to specify the prescribed exercise. This specification is used by the game environment to drive the animation of a coach avatar demonstrating the prescribed exercise. As the user follows its instructions, the system provides timely and specific feedback in a variety of modalities, by comparing the players’ postures against those of the coach. In this paper, we describe our system and its evolutionary development based on the expertise of our multidisciplinary team and the advice of our envisioned users. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Leadership | 2017-12-18 | Eleni Stroulia |
| Virtual Reality EveningOn September 25th, the Edmonton chapter of the Manning Innovation Awards will be hosting “Virtual Reality and its Place in Real Life Edmonton” at the Telus World of Science. The purpose of the evening is to introduce high school students and their families to innovation in virtual and augmented reality, and to inspire them to discover and seek Virtual Reality (VR) experiences in their own lives.
Our goal is to make this event interactive and inspiring. As such, we are reaching out to you see if you are willing to do:
•A short talk an on inspiring development in VR (i.e. 10 minutes or less), AND/OR
•Host an interactive exhibit where attendees can experience a VR application for themselves.
University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Leadership | 2015-09-25 | Eleni Stroulia, Victor Fernandez |
| Detecting Cognitive Ability Changes in Patients with Moderate Dementia Using a Modified "Whack-a-MoleB. Wallace, F. Knoefel, R. Goubran, P. Masson, A. Baker, V. Guana, E. Stroulia, “Detecting Cognitive Ability Changes in Patients With Moderate Dementia Using a Modified 'Whack-a-Mole' Game”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 1521-1534, Jul. 2018
This paper presents results from a 1-year study of 12 patients with moderate dementia in an adult-day program who played a novel whack-a-mole game-based measurement instrument for cognitive behavior and performance. The ongoing measurement of cognition and changes associated with dementia is a challenge for healthcare providers. Measurement methods based on a tablet-based instrument are proposed. Partnership with the adult day program greatly eased recruitment: all but 1 eligible participant joined our study, compared to 1 in 5, or lower, for previous studies with similar populations. There are three unique aspects to the design of our game: first, it has two distinct targets requiring different actions, which increases the cognitive processing for the users; second, each level is systematically more difficult; third, it records and analyzes player performance. The results show that the patients’ game performance improves over the first few weeks; this indicates that they are learning the game and retaining ability gains from week to week, suggesting some procedural learning is still intact. Over the year, 4 participants showed cognitive decline, 4 were stable and 3 improved based on their MMSE score. Two measures are proposed based on level progression within the sessions and mole-hit performance. The level-progression measure identifies declining participants with 1FN and 1FP error. The mole-hit performance measure identifies declining participants with 1FN error. These results demonstrate the potential for the proposed instrument to provide an ongoing measurement as an alternative for the repeated application of the MMSE. Bruyère Research Institute, Carleton University, AGE-WELL NIH SAM3, Bruyere Research Institute, University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2018-07-01 | Frank Knoefel, Rafik Goubran, "Philippe Masson", Brianna Allard, Amanda Baker, Bruce Wallace, Victor Guana, Eleni Stroulia |
| Detecting Cognitive Ability Changes in Patients With Moderate Dementia Using a Modified 'Whack-a-Mole' GameB. Wallace, F. Knoefel, R. Goubran, P. Masson, A. Baker, V. Guana, E. Stroulia, “Detecting Cognitive Ability Changes in Patients With Moderate Dementia Using a Modified 'Whack-a-Mole' Game”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 1521-1534, Jul. 2018. AGE-WELL NIH SAM3, Bruyere Research Institute, Carleton University, Bruyère Research Institute, University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2018-07-01 | Bruce Wallace, Frank Knoefel, Rafik Goubran, Amanda Baker, Victor Guana, Eleni Stroulia |
| Smart homes and home health monitoring technologies for older adults: A systematic reviewBACKGROUND: Around the world, populations are aging and there is a growing concern about ways that older adults can maintain their health and well-being while living in their homes. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this paper was to conduct a systematic literature review to determine: (1) the levels of technology readiness among older adults and, (2) evidence for smart homes and home-based health-monitoring technologies that support aging in place for older adults who have complex needs. RESULTS: We identified and analyzed 48 of 1863 relevant papers. Our analyses found that: (1) technology-readiness level for smart homes and home health monitoring technologies is low; (2) the highest level of evidence is 1b (i.e., one randomized controlled trial with a PEDro score >/=6); smart homes and home health monitoring technologies are used to monitor activities of daily living, cognitive decline and mental health, and heart conditions in older adults with complex needs; (3) there is no evidence that smart homes and home health monitoring technologies help address disability prediction and health-related quality of life, or fall prevention; and (4) there is conflicting evidence that smart homes and home health monitoring technologies help address chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. CONCLUSIONS: The level of technology readiness for smart homes and home health monitoring technologies is still low. The highest level of evidence found was in a study that supported home health technologies for use in monitoring activities of daily living, cognitive decline, mental health, and heart conditions in older adults with complex needs. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2016-01-13 | Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia, Ioanis Nikolaidis, Antonio Miguel-Cruz, Adriana Rios-Rincon |
| VirtualGym : A kinect-based system for seniors exercising at home University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2018-08-01 | Victor Fernandez-Cervantes, Noelannah Neubauer, Benjamin Hunter, Eleni Stroulia, Lili Liu |
| WP6 Face to face meeting (in Winnipeg, Manitoba) University of Alberta, University of Toronto, University of Regina, Toronto Rehab Institute, The KITE Research Institute at University Health Network, Toronto Rehab Institute, University Health Network, Bruyère Research Institute, Simon Fraser University, Toronto Rehab Institute/University of Toronto, Bruyere Research Institute, University of Waterloo | Networking and Partnerships | 2017-10-18 | Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia, Mark Chignell, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Babak Taati, Frank Rudzicz, Frank Knoefel, Zahra Moussavi, Sylvain Moreno, Andrea Wilkinson, Tiffany Tong, Peyman Azad-Khaneghah, Victor Fernandez, Dillam Romero, Azin Asgarian, Ahmed Ashraf, Natasha Gallant, Erin Browne, Caroline Ethier, Christine Daum |
| Infrastructure for the Smart Condo (Application for an NSERC Research Tools and Instruments grant)Total amount requested: $136,472.00 University of Alberta | Networking and Partnerships | 2017-10-23 | Eleni Stroulia |
| Meeting with international collaborators in Hong KongStroulia, Liu, and Nikolaidis are meeting with their collaborators on a project funded by the Worldwide Universities Network in Hong Kong December 18 - 20, 2017. Collaborators include Gangmin Ning (Zheijiang University), Raymond Tong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Arthur Mak (The Chinese University of Hong Kong). Activities will include: site visits to labs, research centres, and centres that serve older adults; seminars with faculty and graduate students; research presentations. University of Alberta, Zhejiang University | Networking and Partnerships | 2017-12-18 | Eleni Stroulia, Lili Liu, Ioanis Nikolaidis, Gangmin Ning |
| Smart-Condo Walkthrough to Minister Moncef The visit lasted about 30 minutes.
The Minister was interested in understanding how the overall Smart-Condo idea might be used to increase job growth and better care for seniors in her riding.
University of Alberta | KTEE - Knowledge Mobilization | 2016-02-26 | Eleni Stroulia, Lili Liu |
| Information Event for AGE-WELL and Churchill (Rivera) Partner ShipA two day presentation/show casing of projects in WP 6 to residents and staff of Churchill retirement home in order to form a partnership to conduct studies related to older adults. | KTEE - Knowledge Mobilization | 2016-08-24 | Peyman Azad-Khaneghah |
| Tour of Smart Condo with John Barlow, MP for Foothills, AlbertaMP Barlow is the Conservative Party of Canada Associate Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Agri-Food. University of Alberta, University of Waterloo | KTEE - Knowledge Mobilization | 2017-11-17 | Eleni Stroulia, Christine Daum |
| Meeting with potential older adult co-researcher Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia, and Christine Daum met with Ken Yu who was recruited to become an older adult co-researcher in specific projects within WP6.1@UAlberta and WP6.2. Ken agreed to join the team and will begin his involvement in projects in early January 2017. University of Alberta, University of Waterloo | Networking and Partnerships | 2017-11-30 | Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia, Christine Daum, "Ken Yu" |
| Recruitment event at the Cardiac Athletic Society of Edmonton for Vibrant Minds studyGave an overview of the study to the group and demonstrated the technology that will be implemented and tested in the study to recruit participants. University of Alberta | Networking and Partnerships | 2017-10-16 | Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia, Peyman Azad-Khaneghah, Victor Fernandez, Elly Park |
| Engagement during computer serious games: A rapid literature review (presentation at CAG 2017)Objective: To conduct a rapid literature review to: 1) identify methods used to measure
engagement while individuals are performing computer serious game tasks, and 2) determine to
what extent these methods are used with older adults who have dementia.
Methods: A rapid literature review was conducted. Three search strings including search terms of
engagement, immersion, involvement, absorption, computer serious games, gamification,
scale, and questionnaire were used in a wide bibliographic database (Scopus). Studies were
included if they reported a way for measuring engagement during computer serious game tasks
and were published on or after the year 2000.
Results: Twenty nine studies were included from the 181 retrieved in the database. Study
participants included healthy adults (55%), students (21%), children (14%) and healthy older
adults (10%). Engagement was measured mainly through self reported questionnaires involving
sense of control, immersion, absorption, challenge, positive and negative affect in 98% of the
studies, whereas only 7% of the studies reported observation. Most of the measures of
engagement in computer serious games were supported by the Flow Theory (31%). Six papers
used self reported questionnaires along with interviews (21%), and 24% of the papers reported
other questionnaires that measured player’s motivation, concentration, anxiety, preferences and
experience with the game. Questionnaires used either 5 or 7point Likert scales.
Conclusion: Few studies have measured engagement during computer serious game with healthy
older adults, and no studies have measured engagement in older adults with dementia. Research is
needed to develop or adapt scales to be used with older adults with dementia.
Abstract for oral presentation at CAG submitted in April 2017. Presentation to be delivered at CAG on Oct 20, 2017.
University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-10-20 | Adriana Rios-Rincon, Antonio Miguel-Cruz, Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia |
| Persons with Moderate Dementia Improving Gameplay. Carleton University, Bruyère Research Institute, University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-06-27 | Brianna Allard, Frank Knoefel, Rafik Goubran, Bruce Wallace, Amanda Baker, Eleni Stroulia, Victor Guana, "P Masson" |
| A rating scale for mental health mobile applications for older adults (poster presentation at CAG 2017)Objective. There are numerous mental health mobile applications (apps) available to the public. People can download these apps from online app markets. Few mental health apps are designed to take into consideration age-related cognitive, perceptual and sensory changes. Currently, there are no scales to help users rate the quality of mental health apps. The objective of this study was to create a scale that clinicians, mental health community organizations and app developers can use to rate the quality of mental health apps for older adults. Methods. A 2 phase multi method design was used. In phase 1, representatives from different stake holders such as older adults, clinicians, and app developers, participated in two focus groups to identify items of the scale. The literature on technology usability was used to guide the focus groups. In phase 2, which is still in progress, the relevance and adequacy of the items of the scale were evaluated by a panel of experts using a Delphi survey method. Results. Subscales identified from the literature and focus groups are ease of use, usefulness, appearance, compatibility, and cost. Phase 2 of the study (relevance and adequacy of items) is still in progress. Implications. The scale can be used for clinical, research and App development purposes. It can help organizations and clinicians to identify appropriate health apps for older adults. Researchers can use the scale to better study apps in systematic reviews. App developers can use this scale to design health-apps that are useable by older adults.
This abstract was submitted in April 2017, accepted, and was presented at CAG on Oct 20, 2017. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-10-20 | Peyman Azad-Khaneghah, Noelannah Neubauer, Eleni Stroulia, Lili Liu |
| Ambient and wearable sensors for indoor activity recognition (Poster presentation)Diaz, D., Mohebbi, P., Yee, N., Daum, C., Liu, L., Nikoalidis, I., & Stroulia, E. (2017). Ambient and wearable sensors for indoor activity recognition. Poster presented at AGE-WELL’s 3rd Annual Conference, October 17-19, 2017, Winnipeg, MB University of Waterloo, University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-10-18 | Dillam Romero, Parisa Mohebbi, "Nicholas Yee", Christine Daum, Lili Liu, Ioanis Nikolaidis, Eleni Stroulia |
| Computer games for older adults: Findings of a usability study (Conference paper) University of Waterloo, University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2018-06-22 | Christine Daum, Adriana Rios-Rincon, Antonio Miguel-Cruz, "Danielle Pertschy", "Chelsea Altura", Victor Guana, Eleni Stroulia, Lili Liu |
| Digital Storytelling and Dementia: Benefits and OpportunitiesOwens, H., Park, E., Beleno, R., Kaufman, D., & Liu, L. (2016, October). Digital storytelling and dementia: Benefits and opportunities. Independent, Simon Fraser University, University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2016-10-20 | Elly Park, Hollis Owens, Ron Beleno, David Kaufman, Lili Liu |
| Information Rich ADL Visualization in the Smart Condo (VisADLSC)Presented Oct 17 and 18, 2018 University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2018-10-16 | Farnoosh Fatemi Pour, "Carrie Demmans Epp", Eleni Stroulia |
| SmartCondo: A Smart Assisted Living Lab University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2015-10-23 | Lili Liu, Ioanis Nikolaidis, Eleni Stroulia, Herbert Yang, Gong Cheng, Victor Fernandez, Victor Guana |
| Usability of Virtual Gym, a Kinect-based system to enhance the physical and mental health of persons with dementiaNeubauer, N., *Fernandez, V., Daum, C., Lee, A., Donovan, J., Liu, L., & Storulia, E. (2017). Usability of Virtual Gym, a Kinect-based system to enhance the physical and mental health of persons with dementia. Poster presented at AGE-WELL’s 3rd Annual Conference, October 17-19, 2017, Winnipeg, MB. University of Waterloo, University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-10-18 | Noelannah Neubauer, Victor Fernandez, Christine Daum, "Amanda Lee", "Jennifer Donovan", Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia |
| Sensor placement for indoor multi-occupant tracking University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2015-07-08 | "Masoud Vatanpour Azghandi", Ioanis Nikolaidis, Eleni Stroulia |
| Sensor-enabled Functional-Mobility Assessment: An Exploratory InvestigationThe population of adults aged 65 years and older is expected to double by 2050. Healthcare systems must adapt to in order to manage the care of this increasing population. Older adults with complex care needs require a significant amount of additional support from caregivers. To maintain, and possibly improve, their quality of life, it is ideal that they receive this support while continuing to live in their own homes. Recent advances in sensing technologies offer the ability to recognize and collect multiple different types of data around a person's movement and physical ability. This data can subsequently be analyzed in order to inform a person's functional-mobility assessment. In this paper, we present an exploratory feasibility study around the use of Microsoft Kinect and KINVENT's K-FORCE plates for the purpose of assessing balance skills. Our results indicate that the analysis of data streams from these two sensors can effectively lead us towards a portable and adaptable gesture-evaluation system. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2019-04-01 | Shadan Golestan, Dillam Diaz Romero, Eleni Stroulia, Antonio Miguel-Cruz, Lili Liu |
| Simulation-Based Deployment Configuration of Smart Indoor SpacesEvaluating Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) deployment scenarios for sensor-driven applications is a tedious and labour-intensive task. To mitigate the cost involved with comparatively evaluating alternative deployments, we present an integrated methodology that enables the modeling, simulation, and evaluation of alternative candidate WSN deployments, as well as, the fine-tuning of the corresponding sensor--driven applications. Based on our previous experience on indoor occupant localization and activity recognition, we illustrate our methodology by applying it to the task of deploying an ambient-intelligence application. We explain how our methodology models the real-world environment and the candidate WSN deployment, simulates the occupants' activities and the WSN run-time behavior, and evaluates, through a variety of metrics, the effectiveness of the application under different deployment configurations. We demonstrate our methodology on two real-world localization application scenarios corresponding to two, drastically different, spaces. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2019-04-01 | Shadan Golestan, Alexandr Petcovici, Ioanis Nikolaidis, Eleni Stroulia |
| Supporting Maintenance Tasks on Transformational Code Generation Environments | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2013-01-01 | Victor Guana |
| Face-to-face meeting between WP6.1, 6.2, 6.8, 5.1 to discuss current and future projectsDiscussion included next steps in the Ottawa WOW project as well as the Neurocatch project. Bruyère Research Institute, University of Alberta, Bruyere Research Institute, University of Waterloo | Networking and Partnerships | 2017-10-18 | Frank Knoefel, Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia, Dillam Romero, Caroline Ethier, Christine Daum |
| Serious Rehabilitation Games with Kinect This demo presents a suite of serious KinectTMbased games for rehabilitation. The game embodies three metaphors and corresponding game mechanics, for three exercise movements: elbow flexion and extension (fisherman), shoulder abduction and adduction (moon spaceship), and knee flexion and extension (the trail of the penguin). Conceived to support sport-injury rehabilitation regimens, the games guide the players through their prescribed rehabilitation exercise at home University of Alberta | Product | 2015-10-15 | Victor Fernandez, Eleni Stroulia, "Claudio Castillo", "Luis Oliva", "Francisco Gonzalez" |
| Activity recognition with J!NS glasses (Technology demo)Demonstration occurred at the 2017 AGE-WELL conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-10-17 | Dillam Romero, "Nicholas Yee", Adriana Rios-Rincon, Antonio Miguel-Cruz, Lili Liu, Eleni Stroulia |
| SmartCondo Viewer (Technology demonstration)Technology demonstration at the 2017 AGE-WELL conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-10-17 | Victor Fernandez, Lili Liu, Ioanis Nikolaidis, Eleni Stroulia |
| Virtual Gym (Technology Demonstration)At 2017 AGE-WELL conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-10-17 | Victor Fernandez, Eleni Stroulia |
| A rating scale for mental health mobile applications for older adults: Item relevance and adequacy (Workshop at CAG 2017)Purpose and Objectives. There are numerous mental health mobile applications (apps) available to the public. People can download these apps from online app markets. Few mental health apps are designed to take into consideration age-related cognitive, perceptual and sensory changes. Currently, there are no scales to help users rate the quality of mental health apps. In phase 1 of this study we worked with clinicians, caregivers, older adults, and app developers to create a scale that clinicians can use to rate the quality of mental health apps for older adults. In this workshop, we will present the draft version of the developed scale and invite participants to provide feedback on the relevance and adequacy of the scale items. The workshop will contribute to phase 2 of the study, which is still in progress. Format. Participants will use a sample mental health app that is available on consumer app markets (iTunes or Google Play) and use the developed scale to rate the quality of the app. The trial will be followed by a focus group style discussion on the relevance and adequacy of the scale items. Suggestions from workshop participants will be used to improve the scale. Implication. The scale can be used for clinical, research and App development purposes. It can help organizations and clinicians to identify appropriate health apps for older adults. Researchers can use the scale to better classify apps in systematic reviews. App developers can use this scale to design health-apps that are useable by older adults.
This abstract was submitted April 2017, accepted, and the workshop was delivered at CAG on Oct 21, 2017. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-10-21 | Peyman Azad-Khaneghah, Noelannah Neubauer, Eleni Stroulia, Lili Liu |
| BIM_Sim_3D : Multi-Agent Human Activity Simulation in Indoor SpacesSmart buildings are a prevalent example of cyber-physical systems: embedded with sensors, they emit a continuous data stream based on which algorithms are being developed to infer the occupants' activities in order to control the building's ambiance to improve the occupants' comfort and safety, and to reduce the building's energy consumption. This type of sensor-fusion-for-occupant-activity-analysis research requires large data sets; however, the security and privacy concerns around sharing data about people's activities impede the collection, curation, and sharing of such data sets. One solution to this issue would be the creation of a human-activity simulator for generating synthetic, yet realistic, data sets. In this paper, we describe our human-activity simulator as a component in our general framework for evaluating activity-recognition methods for indoor spaces. Our simulator, developed in Unity3D, uses the Building Information Model (BIM) of the space as the context in which to simulate multiple agents, with different abilities and tasks. We conclude with a reflection of the pros and cons of our simulator design and implementation and discuss areas for future research. University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2019-05-28 | "YiJi Zhao", Farnoosh Fatemi Pour, Shadan Golestan, Eleni Stroulia |
| Smart home technology for dementia (Workshop)Knoefel, F., Liu, L., & Bier, N. (2017). Smart home technology for dementia. Workshop presented (twice) at the 9th Canadian Dementia Conference, November 2-4, 2017, Toronto, ON. Bruyère Research Institute, University of Alberta, Université de Montréal | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-11-04 | Frank Knoefel, Lili Liu, Nathalie Bier |
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