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Discovering Daily Activity Patterns from Sensor Data Sequences and Activity Sequences

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Mirjam Sepesy Maučec *
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Gregor Donaj
DOI:10.3390/s21206920delete
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The necessity of caring for elderly people is increasing. Great efforts are being made to enable the elderly population to remain independent for as long as possible. Technologies are being developed to monitor the daily activities of a person to detect their state. Approaches that recognize activities from simple environment sensors have been shown to perform well. It is also important to know the habits of a resident to distinguish between common and uncommon behavior. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to discover a person's common daily routines. The approach consists of sequence comparison and a clustering method to obtain partitions of daily routines. Such partitions are the basis to detect unusual sequences of activities in a person's day. Two types of partitions are examined. The first partition type is based on daily activity vectors, and the second type is based on sensor data. We show that daily activity vectors are needed to obtain reasonable results. We also show that partitions obtained with generalized Hamming distance for sequence comparison are better than partitions obtained with the Levenshtein distance. Experiments are performed with two publicly available datasets.
Keywords:
activities of daily living
sensors
Hamming distance
clustering
entropy
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