Objective Remote Assessment of Activities of Daily Living: Analysis of Meal Preparation Patterns
MAJD ALWAN, TRACY BARGER, STEVE KELL, BEVERELY TURNER, SARAH WOOD, AMIT NAIDU  - May, 2007

Medical Automation Research Center

This work shows how readings from sensors installed within a person’s residence can be analyzed and combined to provide a probabilistic evaluation on the ADL/IADL scales. The event criteria needed to evaluate the specific ADL/IADL questions are discussed along with the data-mining techniques used to isolate important events and determine relationships among sensor outputs, including modelbased clustering and association rules.

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