Browsing Programa de Doctorat Erasmus Mundus en Entorns Interactius i Cognitius by Subject "004"

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Context-aware home monitoring system for Parkinson's disease patietns : ambient and werable sensing for freezing of gait detection

Takač, Boris (Date of defense: 2014-12-15)

Parkinson’s disease (PD). It is characterized by brief episodes of inability to step, or by extremely short steps that typically occur on gait initiation or on turning while walking. The consequences of FOG are aggravated ...

Digitizing arquetypal human expereience through physiological signals

Ivonin, Leonid I. (Date of defense: 2014-05-15)

The problem of capturing human experience is relevant in many application domains. In fact, the process of describing and sharing individual experience lies at the heart of human culture. This advancement came at a price ...

Emotions in archetypal media content

Chang, Huang-Ming (Date of defense: 2014-09-16)

Emotion is an intriguing and mysterious psychological phenomenon. While everyone seems to know what it is, researchers have not yet come to consensus on its definition, and many questions still remain unanswered. While ...

Energy-aware home area networking

Khan, Rafiullah (Date of defense: 2014-12-16)

A study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) revealed that about 60% of the office PCs are left powered-up 24/7 only to maintain the network connectivity for remote access, Voice-over-IP (VOIP) clients, Instant ...

ENGAGE-DEM : a model of engagement of people with dementia

Perugia, Giulia (Date of defense: 2018-12-21)

Dementia is a neurodegenerative disease that affects cognition, producing a reduction in thinking, problem-solving, and mnemonic abilities, functioning, preventing affected people to care for themselves and carry out ...

Human activity recognition using a wearable camera

Tadesse, Girmaw Abebe (Date of defense: 2018-04-26)

Advances in wearable technologies are facilitating the understanding of human activities using first-person vision (FPV) for a wide range of assistive applications. In this thesis, we propose robust multiple motion features ...

Identification, synchronisation and composition of user-generated videos

Bano, Sophia (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)

The increasing availability of smartphones is facilitating people to capture videos of their experience when attending events such as concerts, sports competitions and public rallies. Smartphones are equipped with inertial ...

Smartphone-based human activity recognition

Reyes Ortiz, Jorge Luis (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a multidisciplinary research field that aims to gather data regarding people's behavior and their interaction with the environment in order to deliver valuable context-aware information. ...

Unifying interaction across distributed controls in a smart environment using anthropology-based computing to make human-computer interaction "Calm"

Brown, John N.A. (Date of defense: 2014-04-04)

Rather than adapt human behavior to suit a life surrounded by computerized systems, is it possible to adapt the systems to suit humans? Mark Weiser called for this fundamental change to the design and engineering of computer ...