Recognition of emergent human behaviour in a smart home: A data mining approach

  • Authors:
  • Sebastian Lühr;Geoff West;Svetha Venkatesh

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Kent Street, Bentley 6102, Western Australia, Australia;Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Kent Street, Bentley 6102, Western Australia, Australia;Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Kent Street, Bentley 6102, Western Australia, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Pervasive and Mobile Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Motivated by a growing need for intelligent housing to accommodate ageing populations, we propose a novel application of intertransaction association rule (IAR) mining to detect anomalous behaviour in smart home occupants. An efficient mining algorithm that avoids the candidate generation bottleneck limiting the application of current IAR mining algorithms on smart home data sets is detailed. An original visual interface for the exploration of new and changing behaviours distilled from discovered patterns using a new process for finding emergent rules is presented. Finally, we discuss our observations on the emergent behaviours detected in the homes of two real world subjects.