Within the scope of the project ATTEND a system will be developed that increases the time frame of independent living of elderly persons in their used living environment. The system comprises an intelligent, adaptive network of sensors, which are to be installed in the living environment of the user in order to thoroughly observe his behavior. An important aspect is that the sensors shall work independent and in a preferably invisible fashion.
ATTEND learns about normal behavior of the user. In case of unusual behavior an alarm plan can be worked out (e. g. enquiring the user, calling a neighbor, calling an external organization). The system is intended to increase comfort, security and social inclusion of the customer and ideally also help with the early detection of upcoming medical problems. In case of an emergency the system can contact primary and secondary users (family, neighbor, care giver) via external interfaces.
An important point in the development will be the requirement of minimal installation and maintenance effort. In later stages of development the system should act like a butler in the background and start acting – depending on how good the butler is – in various situations on its own.
ATTEND is based on tested and trustworthy technology in building automation and sensors to ensure economizing in developing a product-close prototype. This will help having a fast and economic development and later distributing the product over established channels.
The project is focused on the target group of elderly persons; criteria for the operation of the system are acquired together with them. Already produced results of studies will be considered to be optimal prepared and able to start focused developing.

International conference papers:

1. Yin, Guoqing ; Bruckner, Dietmar: Activity Analysis with Hidden Markov Model for
Ambient Assisted Living. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied and
Theoretical Information Systems Research (ATISR 2012), Taipei, Taiwan, 2012, p. 1-12

2. Yin, Guoqing ; Bruckner, Dietmar: Activity Analyzing with Multisensor Data Correlation.
In: Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Automation and Robotics
(ICAR 2011), Dubai, UAE, 2011, p. 529-534

3. Yin, Guoqing ; Bruckner, Dietmar: Build User Daily Activity Model and Model Structure
Changing. In: Proceedings of IEEE AFRICON 2011, Zambia, Africa, 2011, p. 5

4. Yin, Guoqing ; Bruckner, Dietmar: Daily Activity Model for Ambient Assisted Living.
In: Technological Innovation for Sustainability, Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011, p. 197-204

5. Yin, Guoqing ; Bruckner, Dietmar: Daily Activity Learning from Motion Detector Data
for Ambient Assisted Living. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human
System Interaction (IEEE HSI), Rzeszow, Poland, 2010, p. 6

6. Yin, Guoqing ; Bruckner, Dietmar: Data Analyzing and Daily Activity Learning with
Hidden Markov Model. In: Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Computer Application and System Modeling, Tai Yuan, China, 2010, p. 3-7

7. Yin, Guoqing ; Bruckner, Dietmar: Split-Merge Algorithm and Gaussian Mixture Models
for AAL. In: Proceedings of the 2010 19th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial
Electronics (ISIE) (invited), Bari, Italy, 2010, p. 4

Poster:

8. Yin, Guoqing ; Bruckner, Dietmar: Sensor Fusion and Hidden Markov Model for Project
ATTEND, Poster: Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Forum 2011, Lecce, 26.09.2011-28.09.2011.

9. Yin, Guoqing ; Bruckner, Dietmar: Hidden Markov Model and Split-Merge Algorithm
for Project ATTEND, Poster: Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme 2010,
Odense, 15.09.2010-17.09.2010.

10. Yin, Guoqing ; Bruckner, Dietmar: Data Analyzing with Gaussian Mixture Models and
Split-Merge Algorithm for AAL, Poster: Conference on Ambient Assisted Living, Technology
and Innovation for Ageing Well, AALIANCE, Malaga; 11.03.2010-12.03.2010.

11. Bruckner Dietmar ; Yin Guoqing: Project ATTEND | AdapTive scenario recogniTion
for Emergency and Need Detection, Poster: Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Forum, Vienna,
29.09.2009-01.10.2009.