A HAPPINESS-Oriented Home Care System for Elderly Daily Living

• Main Authors: Shao-HsienShih, 施劭賢
• Other Authors: Jhing-Fa Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/949727

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 電機工程學系 === 102 === In recent years, researchers focus on the home-care functionalities such as bio-signals measurement, security surveillance and health care, however most of them work independently. In this paper, a newly warming-care framework for elderly daily living is proposed which integrates the aforementioned services and the following kindly services, that is, the remote monitoring, the web camera management, the emergency call for help, the behavior recognition and feedback, and the remote control entertainment services. The proposed framework is motivated by the individual alphabet on “HAPPINESS” which are redefined and interpreted as “Health”, “Ability”, “Protection”, “Personalization”, “Interaction”, “Nursing”, “Entertainment”, “Succor” and “Smile”. Two main services are spotlighted to achieve the goals described below. The Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction Service (MHMIS) provides the audio-visual cognitive functions to interact with elderly, and the Web-based User Management Service (WUMS) gives user a smart HMI interface including bio-signal measurement, help button, remote control, and hospital appointment scheduling functionalities. To evaluate the proposed framework usability, MOS (Mean Opinion Score) is applied and average MOS 4.1 score is acquired that reveals the proposed system expectable.