X-BCD: Explainable Sensor-Based Behavioral Change Detection in Smart Home Environments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06174v1
• Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:17:36 GMT
• Title: X-BCD: Explainable Sensor-Based Behavioral Change Detection in Smart Home Environments
• Abstract summary: Behavioral changes in daily life activities at home can be digital markers of cognitive decline.<n>X-BCD is an unsupervised framework for detecting and characterizing changes in activity routines from multimodal smart home sensor data.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Behavioral changes in daily life activities at home can be digital markers of cognitive decline. However, such changes are difficult to assess through sporadic clinical visits and remain challenging to interpret from continuous in-home sensing data. Extensive work has been done in the ubiquitous computing area on recognizing activities in smart homes, but only limited efforts have focused on analysing the evolution of patterns of activities, hence identifying behavior changes. In particular, understanding how daily habits and routines evolve and reorganize (e.g., simplification, fragmentation) is still an open challenge for clinical monitoring and decision support. In this paper, we present X-BCD, an explainable, unsupervised framework for detecting and characterizing changes in activity routines from multimodal smart home sensor data, combining change point detection and cluster evolution tracking. To support clinical interpretation, detected changes in routines are transformed into natural-language explanations grounded in interpretable features. Our preliminary evaluation on longitudinal data from real MCI patients shows that X-BCD produces interpretable descriptions of behavioral change, as supported by cohort-level comparisons, expert assessment, and parameter sensitivity analysis.

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