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This paper presents a qualitative spatial representation in order to describe locomotion patterns. This is useful for smart environments in order to let the system monitor the behaviours of inhabitants. Then, the monitored behaviours can be evaluated using the proposed representation in order to provide assistance according to the behaviours the inhabitants show.
The new representation abstracts from specific sensor technologies. Instead, it determines what the sensory system to be used has to afford. Therefore, this work is regarded as a framework about spatiotemporal patterns found between the sensory level and the application level. Since there exists a constrained class of locomotion patterns for convex indoor environments, according constraints are applied to both the sensory system and the representation.
Core result is that this approach enables a new design concept for spatiotemporal assistance systems. While previous work has shown the limitations of methods that relate interpretations of behaviours to specific locations, it shows that specific locations are sometimes difficult to define. Instead we propose to relate interpretations of behaviours to locomotion patterns which are not necessarily bound to specific locations.
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Gottfried, B. (2009). Qualitative Locomotion Patterns in Convex Spaces. In: Tavangarian, D., Kirste, T., Timmermann, D., Lucke, U., Versick, D. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Assistance and Mobile Multimedia Computing. IMC 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10263-9_2
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