The long term rehabilitation goal for individuals with a severe disability, such as acquired brain injury, is resettlement back in the community away after a discharge. Thus, solutions and systems that provide physical autonomy must be investigated and designed. In this paper, we present a solution that relies on telemonitoring and home support and that use context-aware techniques to be personalized and adaptable to users' needs. The system is part of the BackHome project and is currently running at end-users facilities in Belfast and W\"{u}rzburg. Here, we present and discuss preliminary experiments performed in Barcelona with healthy users.

1. AI*AAL.it 2014
1st Italian Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence for
Ambient Assisted Living
Providing Physical Autonomy to
Disabled People through
Telemonitoring and Home Support
Felip Miralles, Eloisa Vargiu, Stefan Dauwalder,
Eloi Casals, José Alejandro Cordero

2. The Context
TBI is a global public health problem affecting all populations
and is predicted to become the third leading cause of mortality
and disability globally by 2020
People may be left with a range of residual
problems which impact on physical function,
communication, cognition, emotion and behavior
The person who has experienced the TBI may
experience changes in roles, relationships and living
situations

3. The Goal
To provide physical autonomy to disabled people
BCI
Home Support
Telemonitoring
Context-awareness

4. BCI
A set of flexible and extensible services to be controlled by the BCI
 Smart Home control
o Turning on/off an electrical device
o Controlling a multimedia player
 Cognitive stimulation
o Performing cognitive rehabilitation tasks
o Painting
 Web access
o Browsing the Internet
o E-mailing
o Visiting social networks

5. BCI

6. BCI

7. Telemonitoring
Indoor and outdoor activities as well as BCI use at home
 indoors activities
o Percentage of time in each room
o Time spent watching TV / playing games / …
 outdoor activities
o Covered distance by “walking”
o Covered distance by transportation
 BCI use
o Session time and duration
o Used services and number of selections

8. Telemonitoring

9. Telemonitoring

10. Telemonitoring

11. Telemonitoring

12. Telemonitoring

13. Home Support
Smart home devices, which give control over the built environment, and
free standing electrical goods controlled by BCI
 Turning on/off devices
o Light
o Fan
o Radio
 Controlling a TV
o Volume
o Channels
 Control an IP camera
o Movement
o Direction
 Controlling a multimedia player
o Photos
o Videos

14. Home Support

15. Context Awareness
The overall system provides personalization and adaptation: starting
from the information of the context, triggers and rules may be defined

16. Context Awareness
 Automatically generated
o the user that every night at 7.00 PM watches
the TV
the system automatically displays a TV
shortcut in the BCI matrix
 Created by the caregiver
o at 9.00 PM the user is on the bedroom
the system has to turn off the light
 Created by the therapist
o the user stays on bed more than
10 hours
the systems sends an alert to the
therapist

17.  A 40-years-old healthy woman in Barcelona
 Sensors
o Presence (in each room)
o Main door
 Monitored period
Indoors habits
Results

18. Indoor habits
Full-time workday
Part-time workday
Results

19.  Sensors
o Presence (in each room)
o Main door
o Smartphone (Moves)
 Monitored period
Mobility
Results

20. Mobility
 A 40-years-old healthy woman in Barcelona
o Each day at 7:00 PM she has to answer by mail to the following
questions
Results

21.  Categories  Adopted metrics
o 휋 =
푇푃
푇푃+퐹푃
o 휌 =
푇푃
푇푃+퐹푁
o 퐹1 = 2
휋∙휌
휋+휌
1 2 3 4 5
Low High
Normal
Mobility
Results

22. Home support
Results

23. Where we are?
The system is currently running at healthy-users’ homes in Barcelona.
Experiments with end-users in Belfast started two weeks ago!

24. Closing remarks
 A telemonitoring and home support system for people with
severe disabilities
 Personalization and adaption are provided depending on the
context
 The system is currently running in Belfast at 4 end-users’
home
 The work is part of the BackHome EU project

25. What’s next?
 Expected results and actions
o Behavior recognition
Personalization and adaptation of the system
o Alarm triggering
Notification to therapist(s)
o Quality of life assessment (mobility and mood)
Notification to the user and her therapist(s)

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