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A smart cooking device for assisting cognitively impaired users
- Source :
- Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments. 6:107-125
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- In our ageing world, a rising number of people suffer from cognitive deficit, which most of the time leads to a reduced autonomy. Even with their impaired capacities, these persons often stay at home or they go live with a relative. They then have to perform important daily tasks (such as cooking) using devices and appliances designed for healthy people, which do not take into consideration their cognitive impairment. Using these devices is risky and may lead to a tragedy (e.g. fire). A potential answer to this challenge is to provide automated systems, which perform tasks on behalf of the impaired user. However, clinical studies have shown that encouraging users to maintain their autonomy greatly help to preserve health, dignity, and motivation. Therefore, we present in this paper a new smart range prototype allowing monitoring and guiding a cognitively impaired user in the activity of preparing a meal. This new original prototype is capable of giving adapted prompting to the user in the completion of several recipes by exploiting load cells, heat sensors and electromagnetic contacts embedded in the range. Our system is also able to detect risky situations and is able of taking preventive actions accordingly. It includes a state-transition recognition algorithm incorporating a model of the main cognitive errors. Finally, we present several experiments with the prototype and a study conducted with the targeted users, with companies, public organisms and professionals.
- Subjects :
- Computer Networks and Communications
Computer science
media_common.quotation_subject
02 engineering and technology
01 natural sciences
Health informatics
Cognitive error
Dignity
Artificial Intelligence
Human–computer interaction
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
medicine
Cognitive impairment
Recognition algorithm
Cognitive deficit
media_common
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
010401 analytical chemistry
020206 networking & telecommunications
0104 chemical sciences
Computer Science Applications
Cognitively impaired
medicine.symptom
business
Autonomy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21994676 and 21994668
- Volume :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........33b7a547aff100b1e22b6eea5a1fa094
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40860-020-00104-3