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Record W4406821256 · doi:10.1016/j.iot.2025.101502

A contactless method for recognition of daily living activities for older adults based on ambient assisted living technology

2025· article· en· W4406821256 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternet of Things · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicContext-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity Health NetworkUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAssisted livingActivities of daily livingIndependent livingHuman–computer interactionComputer sciencePsychologyGerontologyMedicine

Abstract

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Background During demographic shifts towards an older population, healthcare systems face increased demands, highlighting the need for innovative approaches that facilitate supporting older adults’ well-being and safety. This study aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of zero-effort Ambient Assisted Living technology in recognizing daily activities of older adults via machine learning algorithms by comparing with wearable technology . Methods Conducted in a smart home environment equipped with a comprehensive range of non-intrusive sensors, the study involved 40 participants, during which they were instructed to perform 23 types of predefined daily living activities, organized in five phases. Data from these activities were concurrently captured by both ambient and wearable sensors . Analysis was performed using five machine learning models: K-Nearest Neighbors, Decision Trees , Random Forest , Adaptive Boosting , and Gaussian Naive Bayes. Results Ambient sensors , especially using the AdaBoost model, demonstrated high accuracy (0.964) in activity recognition, significantly outperforming wearable sensors (best accuracy 0.367 with Random Forest). When fusing data from both sensor types, the accuracy slightly decreases to 0.909. Despite spatial overlap challenges, ambient sensors accurately recognize activities across various room settings with accuracies all above 0.950. Feature importance analysis reveals that climatic, electrical, and motion-related features are crucial for model classification . Conclusion This study showcases the efficacy of Ambient Assisted Living technology in recognizing daily indoor activities of older adults. These findings have implications for public health , highlighting Ambient Assisted Living technology's potential to support older adults' independence and well-being, offering a promising direction for future research and application in smart living environments.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.965
Threshold uncertainty score0.821

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.271 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it