Context Graphs as an Efficient and User-Friendly Method of Describing and Recognizing a Situation in AAL

Abstract

In the field of ambient assisted living, the best results are achieved with systems that are less intrusive and more intelligent, that can easily integrate both formal and informal caregivers and that can easily adapt to the changes in the situation of the elderly or disabled person. This paper presents a graph-based representation for context information and a simple and intuitive method for situation recognition. Both the input and the results are easy to visualize, understand and use. Experiments have been performed on several AAL-specific scenarios.

Keywords

• ambient assisted living
• ambient intelligence
• context awareness
• context graphs
• context patterns
• graph matching
• situation recognition