Pattern Recognition in Older Adults’ Activities of Daily Living
Monitoring daily activities and behaviors is essential for improving quality of life in elderly care, where early detection of behavioral anomalies can lead to timely interventions and enhanced well-being. However, monitoring systems often struggle with scalability, high rates of false positives and...
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| description | Monitoring daily activities and behaviors is essential for improving quality of life in elderly care, where early detection of behavioral anomalies can lead to timely interventions and enhanced well-being. However, monitoring systems often struggle with scalability, high rates of false positives and negatives, and lack of interpretability in understanding anomalies within collected data. Addressing these limitations requires an adaptable, accurate solution to detect patterns and reliably identify outliers in elderly behavior data. This work aims to design a scalable monitoring system that identifies patterns and anomalies in elderly activity data while prioritizing interpretability to make well-informed decisions. The proposed system employs pattern recognition to detect and analyze outliers in behavior analysis, incorporating a service worker generated with Crontab Guru for automated data gathering and organization. Validation is conducted through statistical measures such as accumulated values, percentiles, and probability analyses to minimize false detections and ensure reliable performance. Experimental results indicate the system achieves high accuracy, with an occupancy probability across compartments and fewer outliers detected. The system demonstrates effective scalability and robust anomaly detection. By combining pattern recognition with a focus on interpretability, the proposed system provides actionable insights into elderly activity patterns and behaviors. This approach enhances the well-being of older adults, offering caregivers reliable information to support timely interventions and improve overall quality of life. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4e539d413a1f4f06be306d05ca254b9c2025-08-20T02:00:33ZengMDPI AGFuture Internet1999-59032024-12-01161247610.3390/fi16120476Pattern Recognition in Older Adults’ Activities of Daily LivingGonçalo Augusto0Rui Duarte1Carlos Cunha2Ana Matos3CISeD—Research Centre in Digital Services, Polytechnic of Viseu, 3504-510 Viseu, PortugalCISeD—Research Centre in Digital Services, Polytechnic of Viseu, 3504-510 Viseu, PortugalCISeD—Research Centre in Digital Services, Polytechnic of Viseu, 3504-510 Viseu, PortugalCISeD—Research Centre in Digital Services, Polytechnic of Viseu, 3504-510 Viseu, PortugalMonitoring daily activities and behaviors is essential for improving quality of life in elderly care, where early detection of behavioral anomalies can lead to timely interventions and enhanced well-being. However, monitoring systems often struggle with scalability, high rates of false positives and negatives, and lack of interpretability in understanding anomalies within collected data. Addressing these limitations requires an adaptable, accurate solution to detect patterns and reliably identify outliers in elderly behavior data. This work aims to design a scalable monitoring system that identifies patterns and anomalies in elderly activity data while prioritizing interpretability to make well-informed decisions. The proposed system employs pattern recognition to detect and analyze outliers in behavior analysis, incorporating a service worker generated with Crontab Guru for automated data gathering and organization. Validation is conducted through statistical measures such as accumulated values, percentiles, and probability analyses to minimize false detections and ensure reliable performance. Experimental results indicate the system achieves high accuracy, with an occupancy probability across compartments and fewer outliers detected. The system demonstrates effective scalability and robust anomaly detection. By combining pattern recognition with a focus on interpretability, the proposed system provides actionable insights into elderly activity patterns and behaviors. This approach enhances the well-being of older adults, offering caregivers reliable information to support timely interventions and improve overall quality of life.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/16/12/476pattern recognitionanomaly detectionoutlier detectiondata organizationolder adults monitoring |
| spellingShingle | Gonçalo Augusto Rui Duarte Carlos Cunha Ana Matos Pattern Recognition in Older Adults’ Activities of Daily Living Future Internet pattern recognition anomaly detection outlier detection data organization older adults monitoring |
| title | Pattern Recognition in Older Adults’ Activities of Daily Living |
| title_full | Pattern Recognition in Older Adults’ Activities of Daily Living |
| title_fullStr | Pattern Recognition in Older Adults’ Activities of Daily Living |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pattern Recognition in Older Adults’ Activities of Daily Living |
| title_short | Pattern Recognition in Older Adults’ Activities of Daily Living |
| title_sort | pattern recognition in older adults activities of daily living |
| topic | pattern recognition anomaly detection outlier detection data organization older adults monitoring |
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