Pervasive cognitive assistants for smart homes/l'assistance cognitive dans les habitats intelligents

政府的目标是将患有认知障碍(阿尔茨海默病、创伤、精神分裂症)的人留在家里和社区。在许多情况下，如果提供轻微的援助，人们将能够呆在家里。但资源稀缺。因此，在大多数情况下，亲属在没有获得适当资源的情况下承担照顾的责任。这种情况往往会变成令人精疲力竭的负担。因此，非正式的和专业的照顾者迫切需要帮助。特别是智能家居和一般的健康远程信息处理可以促进老年人和残疾人独立生活和改善生活方式。这项建议解决了注意力、启蒙、记忆和计划方面的缺陷。注意力缺乏症是指一个人很难专注于当前的活动，而这些活动可能会被遗忘，永远也不会完成。入门缺陷会导致非活跃期，而这个人应该执行动作。记忆缺陷可能会导致难以记住他必须执行的活动、活动的步骤、对象的位置，甚至活动中涉及哪些对象。最后，计划赤字导致难以按正确的顺序执行一系列行动以实现目标。从长远来看，这项研究建议的目的是-促进创建智能家居和智能环境所必需的普适/无处不在的计算和有形用户界面的理论和实践，-培养认知障碍者的自主性，这要归功于对日常生活活动的认知辅助，-调查普适服务和有形用户界面如何支持认知障碍者与其照顾者之间的远程监控、远程帮助和通信。

Governments aim at keeping at home and in their community people suffering from cognitive impairments (Alzheimer's disease, trauma, schizophrenia...).  In many cases, people would be able to stay at home if light assistance is provided. But resources are scarce. Thus most of the time, relatives take responsibility for care without access to appropriate resources. Too often, this situation then turns to an exhausting burden. Therefore informal and professional caregivers urge for help. Smart homes in particular and health telematics in general can foster independent living and enhanced life style for elderly and disabled people. This proposal addresses deficits of attention, initiation, memory and planning. An attention deficit occurs when a person has difficulties to focus on his current activity that may then be forgotten and never completed. An initiation deficit leads to inactive periods whereas the person is supposed to perform actions. Memory deficits could lead to difficulties to remember the activity he has to perform, the steps of the activity, the locations of the objects, and even which objects are involved in the activity. Finally a planning deficit leads to difficulties to perform a sequence of actions in the right order to achieve a goal. In the long run, this research proposal aims to - contribute to the theory and praxis of pervasive/ubiquitous computing and tangible user interfaces compulsory to create smart homes and smart environments, - foster the autonomy of cognitively impaired people thanks to cognitive assistance to activities of daily living, - investigate how pervasive services and tangible user interfaces can support tele-monitoring, tele-assistance, and communication between cognitively impaired people and their caregivers.