An Infrastructure for Assisted
Cognition and Telemonitoring
Hélène Pigot,
Sylvain Giroux, André Mayers
Université de Sherbrooke
Québec Canada
[email protected]
Plan
 Objectives
 Scenario
 Infrastructure
 Middleware
 Applications
 Conclusion
Cognitive assistance
and telemonitoring
Pre processing
Sensors
Intervention
Tele
monitoring
Assisted
Cognition
Emergency
Task recognition
Scenario
Attention deficits
Person Model
Environment model
Task model
The current situation is potentially hazardous
 3 concurrent tasks are under course.
 Mrs Smith suffers from divided attention deficits.
 Cooking is an activity presenting risk of fire.
Scenario
Attention deficits
3 tasks under process
Veal stew task
Coffee task
Reading task
Environment Model
Activity Model
Attention deficits
3 tasks under process
Emergency
Turn off the stove
 Locally
 Immediatly the stove turns off all its components
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Information is sent to the superior layer
 fire alarm triggered
 stove turned off.
At the superior layer,
assessment of fire risks
Plan
 Objectives
 Scenario
 Infrastructure
 Middleware
 Applications
 Conclusion
Architecture
Plan
 Objectives
 Scenario
 Infrastructure
 Middleware
 Applications
 Conclusion
Middleware
 E-mate (CRS4, Sylvain Giroux, Claude
Moulin, Davide Carboni, et al.)
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Spontaneous networks
Mobile code
Multi-channel service delivery
 Epitalk (Sylvain Giroux, François Pachet)
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Distributed plan recognition
Plan
 Objectives
 Scenario
 Infrastructure
 Middleware
 Applications
 Conclusion
Application
Model : task, environment, person
environment
SKILL
Person
Task
Task model
Person Model
 Cognitive parameters
 Physical parameters
 Habits
 Preferences
Cognitive Model
 ACT-R
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Short term memory
Procedural memory
Forgetfulness, similarity
 Norman & Shallice model
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Divided attention
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Supervisor attention model
contention scheduling
Plan
 Objectives
 Scenario
 Infrastructure
 Middleware
 Applications
 Conclusion
Technology
Conclusion
 Two applications
 Cognitive assistance
 Telemonitoring
 Models of person, activity and environment
 Distributed algorithms
 Project scope
 Middleware
 Applications
 Keep it simple