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Personal Data Protection in Smart Home Activity Monitoring for Digital Health: A Case Study

Published: March 27, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2504.13864v1

By: Claudio Bettini, Azin Moradbeikie, Gabriele Civitarese

Potential Business Impact:

Helps detect early signs of memory loss safely.

Business Areas:
Quantified Self Biotechnology, Data and Analytics

Researchers in pervasive computing have worked for decades on sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR). Among the digital health applications, the recognition of activities of daily living (ADL) in smart home environments enables the identification of behavioral changes that clinicians consider as a digital bio-marker of early stages of cognitive decline. The real deployment of sensor-based HAR systems in the homes of elderly subjects poses several challenges, with privacy and ethical concerns being major ones. This paper reports our experience applying privacy by design principles to develop and deploy one of these systems.

Country of Origin
🇮🇹 Italy

Page Count
7 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Human-Computer Interaction