Expertise: Activity of Daily Living Assessment

SAM3 Expertise Areas: Activity of Daily Living Assessment

The assessment of Activity of Daily Living covers a wide range of uses cases from assessment of basic activities or daily living that includes dressing, hygiene and nutrition through to activities that require higher and higher levels of cognitive and physical function such as driving, preparing a complex meal and others. The assessment of these through remote and smart home systems in an emerging application area that SAM3 researchers are actively exploring.

ADL Application Expertise

Sound based assessment
Supportive Smart home systems to detect and assist
Driving and vehicle operation
Assessment of water use (Nutrition and Hygiene)
Bed sensing for sleep patterns (Nocturia, wandering)
Smell sensing for food spoilage

H. Bahrampour, B. Wallace, M. Ouf, A. Doma, F. Knoefel, R. Goubran. “Performance Evaluation of Humidity Sensors for Realtime Human Activity Measurement.” 2026 IEEE International Instrumentation Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2026

Laska, B., Goubran, R., Vukovic, B., Wallace, B., Ault, L., & Laghai, A. (2026). Enabling Independence: Assessing Activities of Daily Living to Inform Safety. Accessibility Institute, Carleton University.

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IEEE Video Tutorial: “The Supportive Smart Home: Solutions Enabling Independence – Ambient Sensing, Artificial Intelligence in Ethical Context“

P. Masson, K. Milne, B. Wallace, B. Laska, R. Goubran, B. Vukovic, F. Knoefel, “Supportive Systems for Cognitive Health and Dementia: Survey of technology and the role of standards”, ASC Project Report, 2025.

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Frank Knoefel, Heidi Sveistrup, Emma Daoust, Cassandra Druken, Noel de Sasio, Marla Calder, Krista Whitney, “Usability of a New Supportive Smart Home Technology Readiness Assessment Tool: Perspectives of Occupational Therapists”, AGEWELL AGM, 2025

B. Laska, B. Wallace, R. Goubran, F. Knoefel, “Environment-Compensated Gas Sensor Time-Series Analysis for Tracking Food Spoilage” at IEEE Medical Measurement and Applications Symposium (MeMeA 2025), 2025

W. Sloan, B. Wallace, R. Goubran, H. Sveistrup, “Cross-Body Transfer Learning for Human Activity Recognition” at 2025 IEEE International Instrumentation Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2025

Thomas N, Chimehi B, Lariviere-Chartier J, Knoefel F, Beattie Z, Steele J, Miller L, Wallace B. Strengths and Limitations of using Different Sensor Technologies to Assess Clinical Outcomes In Dyadic Care”. Innov Aging. 2024 Dec 31;8(Suppl 1):434.

W. Sloan; B. Wallace; R. Goubran; H. Sveistrup, “Use of head-mounted inertial sensors for mobility tasks: Protocol for a Scoping Review”, JMIR Research Protocols, 2025

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J. Valdes, Z. Cook, J. Wang, B. Wallace, B. Laska, J. Green, R. Goubran, P. Xi, “Human Activity Understanding through Explainable Audio-Visual Features”, IEEE Sensors Letters, 2024

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Bahareh Chimehi, Julien Larivière-Chartier, Bruce Wallace, Zachary Beattie, Laura Ault, Lyndsey Miller, Joel Steele, Neil Thomas, Sensor Assessment of Time in Bed on Caregiver Burden for Person Living with Cognitive Impairment, IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements (MeMeA) 2024, 2024

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Mahya Shahmohammadimehrjardi, Bruce Wallace, Adrian D. C. Chan, Rafik Goubran , Pengcheng Xi, Julio J. Valdes , “Multi-Level Method for Sound Source Location Measurement” 2024 IEEE International Instrumentation Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2024

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