Gesture Recognition for Communication Support in the Context of the Bedroom: Comparison of Two Wearable Solutions

Ana Rocha, Diogo Santos, Florentino Sánchez, Gonçalo Aguiar, Henrique Ramos, Miguel Ferreira, Tiago Bastos, Ilídio C. Oliveira, António Teixeira

2023

Abstract

Gestures can be a suitable way of supporting communication for people with communication difficulties, especially in the bedroom scenario. In the scope of the AAL APH-ALARM project, we previously proposed a gesture-based communication solution for the bedroom context, which relies on a smartwatch for gesture recognition. In this contribution, our main aim is to explore better wearable alternatives to the smartwatch regarding the form factor and comfort of use, as well as cost. We compare a smartwatch and a simpler, smaller, less expensive wearable device from MbientLab, both integrating an accelerometer and a gyroscope, in terms of gesture classification performance. The results obtained based on data acquired from six subjects and the support vector machines algorithm show that, overall, both explored devices lead to a model with promising and similar results (mean accuracy and F1 score of 98%, and mean false positive rate of 2%), being thus possible to rely on a smaller and lower cost wearable device, such as the MbientLab sensor module, for recognizing the considered arm gestures.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Rocha A., Santos D., Sánchez F., Aguiar G., Ramos H., Ferreira M., Bastos T., C. Oliveira I. and Teixeira A. (2023). Gesture Recognition for Communication Support in the Context of the Bedroom: Comparison of Two Wearable Solutions. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE, ISBN 978-989-758-645-3, SciTePress, pages 65-74. DOI: 10.5220/0011991700003476

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ict4awe23,
author={Ana Rocha and Diogo Santos and Florentino Sánchez and Gonçalo Aguiar and Henrique Ramos and Miguel Ferreira and Tiago Bastos and Ilídio C. Oliveira and António Teixeira},
title={Gesture Recognition for Communication Support in the Context of the Bedroom: Comparison of Two Wearable Solutions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,},
year={2023},
pages={65-74},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011991700003476},
isbn={978-989-758-645-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,
TI - Gesture Recognition for Communication Support in the Context of the Bedroom: Comparison of Two Wearable Solutions
SN - 978-989-758-645-3
AU - Rocha A.
AU - Santos D.
AU - Sánchez F.
AU - Aguiar G.
AU - Ramos H.
AU - Ferreira M.
AU - Bastos T.
AU - C. Oliveira I.
AU - Teixeira A.
PY - 2023
SP - 65
EP - 74
DO - 10.5220/0011991700003476
PB - SciTePress