Towards a Language for Defining Human Behavior for Complex Activities

This paper outlines the steps for a specification to create a language for defining human behavior in the context of complex activities, with a specific focus on Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). The proposed specification to create a language for defining human behavior is used to develop a framework for representation of (1) macro-level tasks or actions associated with any complex activity, (2) the context parameters on which these tasks or actions are performed and (3) sequence of movements of various body parts associated with performing these actions on the context parameters in the context of the given complex activity. To evaluate the efficacy of this proposed work, it has been implemented on a dataset of ADLs. The results presented and discussed uphold the relevance for practical implementation of the proposed human behavior definition language in real-time settings for addressing various challenges and utilizing the full potential of activity centric computing for improving the quality of life and user experience during ADLs as well as for various other applications.

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