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Item Embargo AI-Driven Integrated Caregiving and Health Monitoring Framework for Elderly Well-Being(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2026-07-22) Nugaliyadde, S; Nikeshi, N; Marasinghe, M; Rajapaksha, C; Rajapaksha, S; Thelijjagoda, SThe rapid growth of the aging population has brought about some serious challenges, particularly in managing illnesses, feelings of loneliness, cognitive decline, and mental health issues. Traditional caregiving methods often depend on occasional assessments and hands-on supervision, which can fall short in providing the ongoing and adaptable support that’s really needed. This paper introduces an innovative caregiving and monitoring framework powered by AI, aimed at offering integrated, real-time, and comprehensive assistance for older adults. The system harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and health data analytics to combine physical health monitoring, nutrition planning, smart routine coaching, and therapist-led mental health support all in one platform. With features like voice-based conversations and journaling, it makes emotional expression and behavioral analysis more accessible, helping to gain a deeper insight into users’ mental well-being. Predictive analytics and anomaly detection are used to spot early signs of health risks and shifts in behavior, allowing for timely interventions. Plus, remote access means caregivers and healthcare professionals can keep an eye on users and offer informed advice. By shifting caregiving from a reactive approach to a proactive and preventive one, this system not only improves quality of life but also encourages independent living and eases the burden on caregivers.Item Embargo Sinhala Speech Recognition System for Speech-Based Autism Intervention in Children Using the NAO Robot(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026-03-26) Bopage, H; Pulasinghe, K; Rajapaksha, SThis research focuses on the development of a Sinhala speech recognition engine tailored to identify the language content of conversations with children. The engine leverages machine learning algorithms and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to transcribe and classify speech in Sinhala. Key features include an acoustic model optimized for the nuances of Sinhala phonetics and a language model trained on datasets encompassing texts of child-directed speech. The system evaluates linguistic aspects to assess the appropriateness of content and engagement levels in child-centric dialogues. By addressing challenges such as phoneme variation and informal conversational patterns, the system aims to enhance the understanding and facilitation of Sinhala-based child interactions, promoting effective communication and developmental support.Publication Open Access FocusBoost – A Study Aid with Adaptive Learning Techniques(SLIIT City UNI, 2025-07-08) Prabaharan, N; Dampalessa, D.R.C.G.K.FocusBoost is an AI-powered adaptive learning platform designed to support children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) through personalized learning experiences. By integrating video-based learning with voice input analysis, the system uses speech processing techniques to assess a child's engagement and comprehension in real-time. Based on real-time analysis, the platform dynamically adjusts content difficulty and pace to the needs of the individual learner. In practical testing, the system demonstrated high accuracy in classifying learner engagement and comprehension, with more ADHD learners reporting improved focus and content retention. Additionally, parents have noticed positive changes in their child’s study habits and attention span through its use. The site has a performance tracking accuracy page for children, which shows their level of comprehension. This research highlights the effectiveness of AI-enhanced learning for students with brain and neurological issues and its potential to improve inclusive, sustainable education practices. The system is designed with scalability in mind, allowing for multilingual support, culturally adaptive content, and future integration with medical professionals, expanding its impact across a variety of educational and therapeutic settings.Publication Open Access Smart Chat: A Mobile Chat Application Based on Machine Learning(SLIIT City UNI, 2025-07-08) Yathuraj, G; Abeysinghe, AIn an increasingly digital world, communication is primarily conducted through messaging apps, but these platforms cannot often convey emotional nuance. This limitation can lead to misunderstandings, emotional disconnects, and deteriorating relationships. SmartChat addresses this gap by integrating machine learning-based emotion recognition into a mobile chat app, allowing users to send and receive voice messages enriched with emotional context. Built using React Native and compatible with both Android and iOS, SmartChat analyzes voice cues such as tone, pitch, and cadence to detect and display emotions to the user. This innovation improves the clarity and empathy of conversations, making digital communications more humancentered. Beyond general messaging, SmartChat has the potential to be used in critical contexts such as education, mental health support, and emotional literacy. By making emotionally aware communication accessible across languages and cultures, SmartChat contributes to fostering healthy interpersonal relationships and supports the broader goal of social sustainability through technology.Publication Embargo Assistant Zone – Homeschooling Assistance System based on Natural Language Processing(IEEE, 2022-12-09) Premendran, K; Bopearachchi, S.B.D.D.; Senevirathna, S.D.M.; Giridaran, S; Archchana, K; Ganegoda, D; Thelijjagoda, SAs a developing country, most people give their highest priority to education. When focusing on building an e-learning platform to improve the knowledge of students and teacher-student interactivity, the pandemic season can be mentioned as the main blocker which highly impacted the education field. Not only by considering the pandemic situation but also by addressing the concerns when it comes to teacher and student evaluation and psychological levels of students who are undergoing different difficulties, the “Home Schooling Assistance System” (Assistant Zone) has been introduced as a solution. The Assistant Zone has been initiated with three unique features which are valuable for both students and teachers. This system analyzes the strengths, weaknesses and evaluates the student performance, suggests study materials to improve themselves, provides solutions to the problems faced by the students, teachers, and parents and measures the performance of teachers based on their students, and recommends learning materials for the low-performing teachers. The Assistant Zone fulfills the targeted problems and introduces the above-mentioned three unique features with the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) such as the BERT algorithm and Machine Learning models such as the Recurrent Neural Network, Forward Neural Network, and Gaussian Model.Publication Embargo A Mobile Gamified Application to Improve Mathematics Skills of Students from Age 9 to 11 Years(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022-09-16) Karunasekara, K.K.R; Olinka, P.L.T; Kodithuwakku, K.T.D; Jayashan, B.V.P; Kahandawaarachchi, C; Attanayaka, BThe revolutionary change in technology has directly involved with e-learning systems. Mathematics is recognized as essential yet difficult for most of students. The main problem is considered as existing solutions were not provided a better solution for knowledge level enhancement of mathematics by detecting the exact knowledge levels of students. Current applications have offered permission to select students' knowledge levels by themselves or initiated from the initial level which has led to wrong identification of mathematics knowledge. As a solution for these problems gamified mobile application is provided by introducing a knowledge level detection with a whole syllabus coverage question classification and answer classification by using a Logistic Regression extra trees classifier. The knowledge improvement is performed from the exact knowledge level detected and positive emotions of students. Convolutional neural network is utilized for emotional recognition. Further mental health is improved via a Chabot as an educational encouragement and gamified application is developed based on psychology and preference around ten years by adhering to the best practices of Human-Computer Interaction. The proposed solution is considered as a multi-valued and cost-effective solution which will improve the mathematics knowledge level and good mental wellbeing of students with an appealing gamification environment.Publication Embargo Anonymo: Automatic Response and Analysis of Anonymous Caller Complaints(IEEE Computer Society, 2022-08-17) Azhar, A; Maweekumbura, S; Gunathilake, R; Maddumaarachchi, T; Karunasena, A; Nadeeshani, MCustomers are considered as the most valued asset in any business organization. Therefore, attending especially to negative feedback provided by customer in form of complaints is important for an organization to identify areas to improve and retain customers. To quickly respond to customer complaints many business organizations have made hotlines available. Such caller hotlines are dedicated for the purpose of receiving complaints or allowing whistleblowers to reveal information. Due to the fear of being identified, there is a hesitancy in the public to use these hotlines. From the perspective of the organizations when a customer complaint is received it is required to evaluate the validity of the call made to hotlines. Furthermore, when complaints are made, it is required to handle them efficiently by transferring them to relevant departments and prioritize complaints This research proposes 'Anonymo', a system to handle customer complaints in a secure and an efficient manner. To do so, the system analyses the complaints obtained by a caller and provides the end users with the appropriate responses and output, that includes the following: i. Conversational AI agent to respond to callers, ii. Wanted and unwanted call classification, iii. Department-based Complaint classification, iv. Caller Emotion detection and caller complaint analysis while establishing the caller's anonymity. An accuracy of 88.26% was obtained for identification of wanted complaints using SVM algorithm, an accuracy of 85% was obtained for department-based classification using SVM algorithm and 67% accuracy was obtained for emotion analysis by LSTM algorithmPublication Embargo Intelligent System for Skin Disease Detection of Dogs with Ontology Based Clinical Information Extraction(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022-10-29) Rathnayaka, R. M. N. A; Anuththara, K. G. S. N; Wickramasinghe, R.J.P; Gimhana, P. S; Weerasinghe, L; Wimalaratne, GThe largest organ in dogs, the epidermis, is crucial in supplying immunological responses. Skin will preserve all the nutrients and safeguard the cells while warding off harmful or pathogenic substances. Most dog owners today are not aware that their pet dog has a skin condition. Although they were aware of these ailments, they had no notion of how to cure them. In such a situation, the dog may experience pain and an aggravation of the condition. Owners should therefore take their dogs to the vet, even if the skin condition is minor. It can, however, be a costly procedure. There aren't many forums where dog owners may get advice from professionals and ask inquiries regarding their pets. The solution suggests a fully functional mobile application which is a combination of disease identification feature, disease severity level detection feature, domain specific knowledge base with semantic web development and a domain specific AI based chat-bot to the dog owners to overcome this problem using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and natural language processing (NLP).System will extract the necessary features from the images of the lesion to classify the skin condition and Severity level of the disease. The results obtained show disease type classification is within the accuracy range of 77.78% to 100% which tested again 4 CNN base models. As for the severity level identification accuracy situated around 99.62%.Publication Open Access User Awareness System to Diagnose Dermatological Diseases(Foundation of Computer Science, 2020-12-18) Chandrasiri, S; Weerasooriya, T; Pathivarathan, V; Thavabalasingham, N; Philipreman, K; Gunasekaran, SNowadays, humans' health is deteriorating by dermatological diseases, and the spreading rate is high. Most people are not aware of skin diseases. As they do not realize these diseases' seriousness, they try to treat with some remedies by themselves, even without knowing what the actual disease is. Nevertheless, it is not a suitable way to cure the disease, leading to future complications. So still the dermatological diseases remain as one of the main categories of common health issues. A few people prefer to use computerized systems to evaluate the disease conditions these days. Moreover, it is essential to know about the diseases to manage that condition and prevent escalation. Therefore, the proposed system is implemented to give users some knowledge about dermatological diseases as much as possible. The users can get awareness and predict skin diseases and complications from the data mining technique. The user can identify the stage of the dermatological disease by applying the classification algorithm. Furthermore, this system will also scrap web pages related to that disease from known or system verified websites. The content analysis is based on the machine learning process, especially using Neural Language Processing. Hence, the system will undeniably be useful to the users to summarize skin diseases and get concerns from a dermatologistPublication Open Access Automated Customer Care Service System for Finance Companies(NCTM, 2014-12-16) Warnapura, A. K; Rajapaksha, D. S; Ranawaka, H. P; Fernando, P. S. S. J; Kasthuriarachchi, K. T. S; Wijendra, DIn general, to obtain information about a product one should visit the company or contact the company via a phone call or some sort of a communication type, for example E-mail. Even so under normal circumstances the customer will receive the necessary information sent by a human being. There can be many disadvantages in this method. At the onset if a particular customer gives a phone call to the company the customer will have to wait for a considerable time. This is obvious because due to lack of human resources and phone lines there may be a question of customers waiting to get connected to the company line. On the other hand if a customer sends an email, the reply for the email will take time because the particular email should be perused by another human being at company in order to reply. These are few disadvantages apart from human errors that can happen. Ultimately as a result of above detrimental facts a faithful customer could get unsatisfied and lose confidence on a particular company. However, in the system that we are going to introduce, a particular customer can get any type of information in real time by the Aid of the Artificial Intelligence in the form of text/voice or E-mails. The advantages over the other method are that the customers will not have to wait for a reply, there are no space for human error and more importantly the company can use their human resources in other activities while the system takes care of the Customer care unit at least partially. Further, this system will be help to people who needs the immediate customer care assistance and will be able to get help by their own without involved human agent in another party for their assistance