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

各国政府的目标是让患有认知障碍（阿尔茨海默病、创伤、精神分裂症等）的人留在家中和社区。在许多情况下，如果提供轻微的帮助，人们就可以呆在家里。但资源是稀缺的。因此，在大多数情况下，亲属承担照顾的责任，而无法获得适当的资源。通常情况下，这种情况会变成一种令人筋疲力尽的负担。因此，非正式的和专业的护理人员都迫切需要帮助。特别是智能家居和医疗远程信息处理技术，可以促进老年人和残疾人的独立生活和改善生活方式。这个建议解决了注意力、启动、记忆和计划的缺陷。当一个人很难专注于他当前的活动时，就会出现注意力缺陷，而这些活动可能会被遗忘，永远不会完成。启动缺陷导致不活跃的时期，而人应该执行行动。记忆缺陷可能会导致他难以记住他要做的活动、活动的步骤、物体的位置，甚至是活动中涉及的物体。最后，计划不足导致难以按照正确的顺序执行一系列行动以实现目标。从长远来看，本研究计划旨在促进普适/普适计算和有形用户界面的理论和实践，以创建智能家居和智能环境；通过对日常生活活动的认知帮助，促进认知障碍患者的自主性；研究普适服务和有形用户界面如何支持远程监控、远程协助、以及认知障碍患者和他们的照顾者之间的交流。

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.