Communications of the ACM
Biometrics For Care Environments
Biometrics researchers in the United Kingdom are exploring user-friendly ways to enable telecare systems and applications to recognize individuals from their facial and vocal characteristics. Researchers from the University of Kent's School of Engineering and Digital Arts and InMezzo want to make it easier for patients receiving health care and vulnerable individuals receiving social care to access the technology. Telecare enables health and social care to monitor people remotely and receive alerts when incidents occur, and the technology often allows for the electronic transmission of personal health and welfare information.
The researchers are using the audio visual functions of the healthcare delivery platform SmartCare. They also plan to develop a door entry system that recognizes the faces and voices of authorized caregivers and other visitors, which would help improve the safety and security of people who live alone. "This work is indicative of many initiatives in place to bring practical solutions to existing telecare technologies and we are extremely pleased with the objectives of this project and progress being made," says David Parry, CEO of the South East Health Technologies Alliance, which manages the International Center for Excellence in Telecare.
From University of Kent
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