Model-Based Approach to Analysis of Human Behavior with Applications to Nursing and Caregiving Services

Analysis of human behaviors is important in several research fields such as service science. In this paper, a method of model-based analysis of human behaviors is studied. First, a switched linear regression model is introduced. Using this model, we can obtain changing points of behaviors and trends of behaviors between changing points. Furthermore, the analysis method using this model is explained. Finally, we focus on nursing and caregiving services as one of the applications. After the ICT-based system developed by authors is summarized, the computation result on cooperative actions is presented. The proposed approach provides us a new method of model-based analysis of human behaviors.