Welcome

My name is Tim van Kasteren and I am a Ph.D student at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), supervised by Ben Kröse and Gwenn Englebienne.

The Ph.D project I work on is called CARE: Context Awareness in Residences for Elderly and is concerned with health monitoring of elderly people in their own homes. By using a wireless sensor network a monitoring system is able to observe simple actions such as opening a door or cupboard, or lying on the bed. These actions form the input for a probabilistic model which performs activity recognition to determine which activity of daily living (ADL) is performed. ADLs, such as bathing, toileting and cooking, are good indicators of the cognitive and physical capabilities of elderly. For more details on this system I advise you to read my Ubicomp 2008 paper. If you are looking for a dataset to run your own experiments on, our activity recognition dataset is publically available.

My research interests are temporal probabilistic models, machine learning and human behaviour modelling. A list of my publications can be found here.