Stairway to Elders: Bridging Space, Time and Emotions in Their Social Environment for Wellbeing

Giuseppe Boccignone, Claudio de’Sperati, Marco Granato, Giuliano Grossi, Raffaella Lanzarotti, Nicoletta Noceti, Francesca Odone

2020

Abstract

The physical and mental health in elderly population is an emergent issue which in recent years has become an urgent socio-economic phenomenon. Computer scientists, together with physicians and caregivers have devoted a great research effort to conceive and devise assistive technologies, aiming at safeguarding elder health, while a marginal consideration has been devoted to their emotional domain. In this manuscript we outline the research plan and the objectives of a current project called Stairway to elders: bridging space, time and emotions in their social environment for wellbeing”. Through a set of sensors, which include cameras and physiological sensors, we aim at developing computational methods for understanding the affective state and socialization attitude of older people in ecological conditions. A valuable by-product of the project will be the collection of a multi-modal dataset to be used for model design, and that will be made available to the research community. The outcomes of the project should support the design of an environment which automatically (or semi-automatically) adapts its conditions to the affective state of older people, with a consequent improvement of their life quality.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Boccignone G., de’Sperati C., Granato M., Grossi G., Lanzarotti R., Noceti N. and Odone F. (2020). Stairway to Elders: Bridging Space, Time and Emotions in Their Social Environment for Wellbeing. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-758-397-1, pages 548-554. DOI: 10.5220/0009106605480554

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram20,
author={Giuseppe Boccignone and Claudio de’Sperati and Marco Granato and Giuliano Grossi and Raffaella Lanzarotti and Nicoletta Noceti and Francesca Odone},
title={Stairway to Elders: Bridging Space, Time and Emotions in Their Social Environment for Wellbeing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,},
year={2020},
pages={548-554},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009106605480554},
isbn={978-989-758-397-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,
TI - Stairway to Elders: Bridging Space, Time and Emotions in Their Social Environment for Wellbeing
SN - 978-989-758-397-1
AU - Boccignone G.
AU - de’Sperati C.
AU - Granato M.
AU - Grossi G.
AU - Lanzarotti R.
AU - Noceti N.
AU - Odone F.
PY - 2020
SP - 548
EP - 554
DO - 10.5220/0009106605480554