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Record W4411467156 · doi:10.3233/aise250005

Empowering Autonomy at Home: DIY Cognitive Assistance in Smart Homes

2025· book-chapter· en· W4411467156 on OpenAlexaff
Sylvain Giroux

Bibliographic record

VenueAmbient intelligence and smart environments · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSmart Cities and Technologies
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAutonomyCognitionPsychologyInternet privacyGerontologyComputer scienceMedicinePolitical sciencePsychiatry

Abstract

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Since 2001, the DOMUS Laboratory has been developing cognitive orthotics and telemonitoring systems to support aging in place.Using off-the-shelf sensors, these systems collect and analyze data to provide meaningful feedback to older adults, caregivers, and clinicians.Successfully deployed in real homes and care residences, they enhance autonomy for vulnerable seniors and individuals with cognitive impairments.Their success stems from integrating living labs, participatory design, and interdisciplinary collaboration, ensuring relevant user-centered solutions.However, the diversity of users and living environments requires flexible, tailored implementation and assistance strategies.Through all our projects we experienced that smart-home technologies are often complex, time-consuming, and expert-dependent, requiring expertise in computer science, healthcare, and caregiving-a combination that is rarely accessible in one place at the same time.To overcome this challenge, we are developing a do-it-yourself (DIY) approach, empowering non-experts to create and customize their own assistive solutions.By adopting this approach, caregivers and even individuals with cognitive impairments can actively shape more adaptive, effective, and personalized environments.The resulting DIY platform leverages IoT, ontologies, activity recognition, and augmented reality to create intuitive, customizable smart-home solutions.This presentation highlights three cognitive orthotics developed at DOMUS Lab, demonstrating their applications in daily activity monitoring, meal preparation, and nighttime support.Using these as case studies, we outline the core components of our DIY approach to Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and explore key challenges such as usability, interdisciplinary integration (technology, health, and design), and system adoption within healthcare networks and society.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.940
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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 head0.013
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.205 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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