Research Projects
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Ongoing Projects
Context-Aware Collaborative Recommendation Systems
Recommender systems are powerful tools that support the user in their quest to find the multimedia they are looking for. Such systems present multimedia contents or provide recommendations by taking into consideration two dimensions of inputs: content (item), and user (consumer). Little attention has been paid to increasing the quality of the experience by understanding the contextual aspect of the user when he/she wants to consume multimedia content. By including user's biological signal and leveraging collaborative filtering, we can build a context-aware model that establish the bridge between the multimedia content, and the user's context containing physiological parameters.
Contributors:
Mohammed F. Alhamid
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
Completed Projects
Health Monitoring Support in Home Environments
In this project, we introduced a Health signs and Activity recognition MONitoring framework (Hamon). Hamon, of German origin meaning a home protector, is designed to be an enabling prototype for health monitoring applications. Using off-the-shelf sensors, we implemented an activity detection framework for detecting five types of activity: falling, lying down, sitting, standing, and walking. The framework collects and analyzes sensory data in real-time, and provides different feedback to the users. In addition, it can generate alerts based on the detected events and store the data collected to a medical sever. Context information such as the weather condition, the type of activity, and physiological data collected such as the heart rate, is also integrated in the framework.
Contributors:
Mohammed F. Alhamid
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
Body Sensor Network for e-Health Applications
We propose the design of a BSN, which offers two features 1) capability of pushing sensory data and events from one's BSN, and ambient information from surrounding environment to a remote healthcare center and 2) facility of remotely querying any sensory data from one's BSN even if he is at home or outside.
Contributors:
Mohammed F. Alhamid
Md Abdur Rahman
Wail Gueaieb
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik