Special issue on human behaviour monitoring, interpretation and understanding
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Special issue on human behaviour monitoring, interpretation and understanding Ahmad Lotfi1 · Amir Pourabdollah1 · Diego Resende Faria2
© Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
1 Introduction The healthcare systems in Europe and the most developed countries in the world are faced with challenging transition processes due to demographic change. The increase of the elderly population and the expectation of life brings about serious risks, with some profound socio and economic impact on our societies. To reduce the burden of social care, integration of existing unobtrusive, easy-to-use and transparent monitoring systems are proven to be an acceptable solution by the elderly and their careers. The ultimate goal of the research is to replace the carer with a virtual intelligent carer capable of interpretation and understanding of their activities. Many technological advances in monitoring systems are developed. Ambient Intelligence has been adopted as a term referring to environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people and it is a candidate to become the next wave of computing. Indeed, this novel computing approach is aimed to extend the ubiquitous vision by incorporating intrinsic intelligence in pervasive systems. This idea enables the study, design and development of paradigms for smart environments that not only react to human events through sensing, interpretation and service provision but also learn and adapt their operation and services to the users over time. These paradigms employ contextual information
when available, and offer unobtrusive and intuitive interfaces to their users. The guest editors of this special issue have organised annual workshops under the same topic for many years. The papers presented in this special issue are mainly from the papers presented during the 4th International Workshop on Human Behaviour Monitoring, Interpretation and Understanding (NOTION). The workshop was part of the 2019 Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference. This special issue aims to encompass valuable research and achievement in the monitoring, interpretation and understanding of human behaviour through smart technologies. There are many readily available monitoring systems to monitor people in their home environment. However, there are challenges ahead with respect to interpretation and understanding of the sensory data and linked that with the actual activity representing a specific behaviour. Following the special issue call for papers, 34 manuscripts were received. Among them, 17 papers were accepted subject to major revisions. After the next rounds of the revisions, 13 papers were finally accepted for publication. The guest editors wish that this collection of papers demonstrate the state of the art in the area of ambient intelligence applications in human behaviour analysis from different perspectives, and can effectively contribute to the body of knowledge in this subject area.
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