Recognition of Human Activities using the User’s Context and the Activity Theory for Risk Prediction

Alfredo Del Fabro Neto, Bruno Romero de Azevedo, Rafael Boufleuer, João Carlos D. Lima, Alencar Machado, Iara Augustin, Márcia Pasin

2016

Abstract

Some of the activities performed daily by people may harm them physically. The performance of such activities in an inadequate manner or in an adverse environment can increase the risk of accidents. The development of context-aware systems capable of predicting these risks is important for human damage prevention. In this sense, we are developing an approach based on the Activity Theory and the Skill, Rule and Knowledge model for risk prediction of human activities in a context-aware middleware. To predict the risk in the activities, we identify the probability for the next actions and compare the current physiological context with its future state. In order to concept proving the proposed model, we developed a prototype and tested it with a public and a private dataset. The results show that the proposed model can assign an appropriate risk factor to the tested activities.

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Neto A., Azevedo B., Boufleuer R., Lima J., Machado A., Augustin I. and Pasin M. (2016). Recognition of Human Activities using the User’s Context and the Activity Theory for Risk Prediction . In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-187-8, pages 282-289. DOI: 10.5220/0005832202820289


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis16,
author={Alfredo Del Fabro Neto and Bruno Romero de Azevedo and Rafael Boufleuer and João Carlos D. Lima and Alencar Machado and Iara Augustin and Márcia Pasin},
title={Recognition of Human Activities using the User’s Context and the Activity Theory for Risk Prediction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2016},
pages={282-289},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005832202820289},
isbn={978-989-758-187-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Recognition of Human Activities using the User’s Context and the Activity Theory for Risk Prediction
SN - 978-989-758-187-8
AU - Neto A.
AU - Azevedo B.
AU - Boufleuer R.
AU - Lima J.
AU - Machado A.
AU - Augustin I.
AU - Pasin M.
PY - 2016
SP - 282
EP - 289
DO - 10.5220/0005832202820289