TY - GEN
T1 - A robotic fitness coach for the elderly
AU - Görer, Binnur
AU - Salah, Albert Ali
AU - Akin, H. Levent
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The ultimate goal of ambient assisted living is to help elderly people live a healthy life in the convenience of their homes by making more intelligent technology bring them a set of required assistive tools. In this paper we describe a robotic fitness coach that learns a set of physical exercises from a professional trainer, and assists elderly subjects in performing these gestures. The gestures were selected from an actual training programme at an elderly care home. When demonstrating gestures, the robot performs the learned gestures to the best of its abilities, and while monitoring the elderly subject with an RGB-D camera, provides verbal guidance to complement the visual display, correcting gestures on the fly. We provide a detailed description of the training programme, the gesture acquisition, replication and evaluation algorithms, our solution to the robot stability problem, and a set of preliminary user tests to validate our approach.
AB - The ultimate goal of ambient assisted living is to help elderly people live a healthy life in the convenience of their homes by making more intelligent technology bring them a set of required assistive tools. In this paper we describe a robotic fitness coach that learns a set of physical exercises from a professional trainer, and assists elderly subjects in performing these gestures. The gestures were selected from an actual training programme at an elderly care home. When demonstrating gestures, the robot performs the learned gestures to the best of its abilities, and while monitoring the elderly subject with an RGB-D camera, provides verbal guidance to complement the visual display, correcting gestures on the fly. We provide a detailed description of the training programme, the gesture acquisition, replication and evaluation algorithms, our solution to the robot stability problem, and a set of preliminary user tests to validate our approach.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893407141&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-03647-2_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-03647-2_9
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893407141
SN - 9783319036465
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 124
EP - 139
BT - Ambient Intelligence - 4th International Joint Conference, AmI 2013, Proceedings
PB - Springer
T2 - 4th International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2013
Y2 - 3 December 2013 through 5 December 2013
ER -