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  • Behavioral science
  • Computational modeling
  • Smart home technology

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  • Ecologically-valid data on daily human activity is scarce, limiting formal behavior modeling.
  • Previous models lacked the granularity to capture nuanced indoor routine behaviors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a formal model of indoor routine behavior using automatically-sensed activity data.
  • To investigate and compare behavioral norms across diverse participants in smart homes.
  • To explore the relationship between behavior patterns and resident health status.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from 99 smart homes with automatically-sensed and recognized activities.
  • Modeled human behavior patterns based on inter-arrival times between successive activities.
  • Applied non-Poisson and Pareto distribution models to analyze activity sequences.

Main Results:

  • Human indoor activities are described by non-Poisson processes.
  • Activity inter-arrival times follow a Pareto distribution.
  • Subgroup activity combinations can be modeled by multivariate Pareto distributions.

Conclusions:

  • Formal modeling of indoor human behavior is feasible using smart home data.
  • Pareto distributions accurately describe activity inter-arrival times, offering insights into routine predictability.
  • Findings support automated health diagnostics and personalized behavioral interventions.