In this paper, we investigate methods of performing automated cognitive health assessment from smart home sensor data. Specifically, we introduce an algorithm to quantify and track changes in activities of daily living and in the mobility of a smart home resident over time using longitudinal smart home sensor data. We use an automated activity recognition algorithm to recognize a smart home resident's activities of daily living from the generated sensor data, and introduce a Compare and Count (2C) algorithm to quantify the changes in everyday behavior. We test our approach using a longitudinal sensor dataset that we collected from 18 single-resident smart homes for nearly two years and study the relationship between observed changes in the sensor-based everyday functioning parameters and changes in standard clinical health assessment scores. The results suggest that we may be able to develop sensor-based change algorithms that can predict specific components of cognitive and physical health.
['Prafulla N. Dawadi', 'Diane J. Cook', 'Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe']
Smart home-based longitudinal functional assessment