A planning system based on Markov decision processes to guide people with dementia through activities of daily living

Jennifer Boger; Jesse Hoey; Pascal Poupart; Craig Boutilier; Geoff Fernie; Alex Mihailidis

doi:10.1109/TITB.2006.864480

A planning system based on Markov decision processes to guide people with dementia through activities of daily living

Jennifer Boger, Jesse Hoey, Pascal Poupart, Craig Boutilier, Geoff Fernie, Alex Mihailidis

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Abstract

Older adults with dementia often cannot remember how to complete activities of daily living and require a caregiver to aid them through the steps involved. The use of a computerized guidance system could potentially reduce the reliance on a caregiver. This paper examines the design and preliminary evaluation of a planning system that uses Markov decision processes (MDPs) to determine when and how to provide prompts to a user with dementia for guidance through the activity of handwashing. Results from the study suggest that MDPs can be applied effectively to this type of guidance problem. Considerations for the development of future guidance systems are presented

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	323-333
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Volume	10
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TITB.2006.864480
Publication status	Published - Apr 2006

Keywords

Activities of daily living (ADLs)
Autonomous guidance
Dementia
Markov decision process (MDP)

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