A progressive study of user and sensor models for monitoring and assisting elderly people, focusing on the visually impaired

这项研究将有助于我们老龄化人口的福祉，延长他们的独立性，从而使他们有能力安全地呆在家里。这将使他们、他们的照顾者和社会其他人受益。基于心理学发现的用户建模、语言技术和传感器网络之间的协同作用将产生高质量、新颖的科学进步。部署的原型将为应用程序的概念提供证明，以改善我们的日常生活，创造商业化机会。

This research will contribute to the well-being of our ageing population by extending their independence, and hence their ability to remain safely in their homes. This will benefit them, their carers and the rest of society. The synergy between user modelling, language technology and sensor networks, grounded in psychological findings, will yield high quality, novel scientific advances. The deployed prototypes will provide proof of concept of an application that improves our daily living, creating commercialisation opportunities.