Recommendation engine based system towards creating a harmonious family living environment

Families are the essential building block of every society and making each family happy is the key to a happy society. Our research gives an outline of a smart home system for creating a harmonious family living environment. The system has to have three elements: acquisition of data on individual activities and their surroundings; data mining for activity recognition; and a personalized recommendation engine. This paper briefly describes the simulated sensors and home environment, introduces our novel approach of the matrix-based data mining and emphasizes a personalized recommendation engine which aims to prevent negative phenomena from taking place. Two particular scenarios, in the context of child education and care of the elderly, are provided to show how the recommendation engine functions.