Hubert Kenfack Ngankam

Prix et distinctions

• (2025) 2e prix, concours « Ma recherche en 3 minutes ». Université de Sherbrooke.
• (2024) 1er prix, concours « Ma recherche en 3 minutes ». Université de Sherbrooke.
• (2022) Prix du meilleur article. Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI).

Financement

• Subvention. Modèle de reconnaissance des activités de la vie quotidienne pour une solution de télévigilance intégré à un système de santé. Mitacs (Vancouver, Canada). 15 000 $. (2026-2027).
• Subvention. Moteur de règles événementiel adaptatif (CARE-Rules). FRQNT (Québec, Canada). Mandat - INTER : Ingénierie de technologies interactives en réadaptation. 10 000 $. (2026-2027).
  Numéro de subvention : 377697.
• Subvention. Habitat intelligent adaptatif pour l'assistance cognitive multimodale. Canadian Foundation for Innovation (Ottawa, Canada). 680 948 $. (2026-2028).
  Numéro de subvention : 46608.
• Subvention. Soutien facultaire au recrutement aux études supérieures. Université de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, Canada). 25 200 $. (2026-2027).
• Bourse. Transformation numérique éthique de l'Accorderie (IA explicable). Mitacs (Vancouver, Canada). Stage de stratégie d'entreprise. 60 000 $. (2025-2026).
  Numéro de subvention : IT47128.
• Subvention. Assistance cognitive multimodale pour le soutien proactif des aînés fragiles. CRSNG Canada (Ottawa, Canada). 192 500 $. (2025-2030).
  Numéro de subvention : RGPIN-2025-06132.
• Subvention. Acceptabilité de l'IA soutenant l'apprentissage (étude pilote). Centre de Recherche sur le Vieillissement (Sherbrooke, Canada). Initiatives stratégiques. 24 975 $. (2025-2026).
• Subvention. Partenariat pour le maintien de la participation sociale (stratégies d'apprentissage). CRSH Canada (Ottawa, Canada). Développement de partenariat. 200 000 $. (2025-2028).
  Numéro de subvention : 890-2024-0078.
• Subvention. Recherche participative — apprendre à cuisiner aux adultes autistes. CRSH (Ottawa, Canada). Engagement partenarial. 25 000 $. (2024-2025).
  Numéro de subvention : 892-2024-2045.
• Subvention. Capteurs thermiques pour la sécurisation de COOK (DACT-COOK). FRQNT (Québec, Canada). Mandat - INTER : Ingénierie de technologies interactives en réadaptation. 19 000 $. (2024-2026).
  Numéro de subvention : 377697.
• Subvention. Fonds de démarrage - CIUSSS-CHUS-ESTRIE. CIUSSS de L'estrie CHUS (Sherbrooke, Canada). 25 000 $. (2024-2025).
• Subvention. Telemonitoring of ADL in home care services of older adults with cognitive deficits. CIHR (Ottawa, Canada). Services et politiques de la santé. 1 101 600 $. (2024-2028).
  Numéro de subvention : 517369.
• Subvention. Fonds de démarrage. Université de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, Canada). 30 000 $. (2024-2025).
• Bourse. Optimisation de l'espace d'administration des Accorderies du Québec. Mitacs (Vancouver, Canada). Stage de stratégie d'entreprise. 15 000 $. (2024).
  Numéro de subvention : IT41435.
• Subvention salariée. Soutien financier pour les stagiaires en recherche au baccalauréat du Centre de recherche sur le vieillissement (Henri-Louis Charbonneau). Université de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, Canada). CIUSSS de l'Estrie - CHUS via CDRV. 4 000 $.

Publications

Articles

• Chantal Viscogliosi, Hannie Ramirez Bautista, Elise Doré, Wood Guerlin Tellus, Sarah Rahimaly, Sara Ait Bouziaren, Daphnée Després, Camille Gagné, Alex Coutu, Philippe Warren, Yves Couturier, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam, Dominique Giroux, Valérie Poulin, Marie-Eve Poitras, Saliha Ziam, Charles Gouin Vallerand, François Ferland, Véronique Provencher, ... Monique Lacroix. (2026). Implementation guide to support participation among people living with neurocognitive disorders: participatory action research in community, residential and clinical settings. International Journal of Integrated Care. DOI
• Chantal Viscogliosi, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam, Romane Duquette-Laplante, Sarah Rahimaly, Hélène Pigot, Bernard Chassé, Sara Ait Bouziaren, Yves Couturier, Jessica Déry, Nicolas Biard, Jordan Duchesne, Dominique Giroux, Sabrina Jacob, Kim Routhier-Chevrier, Jordan Mino-Roy, Mélanie Caron, Véronique Provencher. (2026). Web-Based Application to Support Caregivers in the Use of Learning Optimization Methods: Participatory Action Research Study. JMIR Aging. DOI
• Mélanie Amaral Dos Santos, Maude Rondeau, Mireille Gagnon-Roy, Célia Lignon, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam, Nathalie Bier, Sylvain Giroux, Carolina Bottari. (2026). Can we configure COOK, a cognitive Orthosis for meal preparation, with efficiency and effectiveness?. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. DOI
• (2026). Tailoring cognitive assistance for individuals with a traumatic brain injury using assistive technology for cognition: translating clinical reasoning into ontologies. DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION-ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY. DOI
• Rania Taleb, Roger Villemaire, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam, Sébastien Gaboury, Sylvain Hallé. (2025). Is It Instrumentation? Evaluation of Validity Constraints in Smart Homes. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. DOI
• Renée-Pier Filiou, Mélanie Couture, Maxime Lussier, Aline Aboujaoudé, Guy Paré, Sylvain Giroux, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam, Patricia Belchior, Carolina Bottari, Kevin Bouchard, Sébastien Gaboury, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Faustin Armel Etindele Sosso, Nathalie Bier. (2025). Decision-Making Process of Home and Social Care Professionals Using Telemonitoring of Activities of Daily Living for Risk Assessment: Embedded Mixed Methods Multiple-Case Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. DOI
• (2025). An Assistive Technology for Cognition for Clients with Acquired Brain injury: The Concept Map of a UserCentred Design Process and Procedure. BRAIN INJURY.
• (2025). Co-development of a configuration interface for the COOK cognitive orthosis for meal preparation: a human-centered design study with occupational therapists. DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION-ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY. DOI
• (2025). Collaborative Design and Usability Assessment of COOK's Configuration Interface: A Joint Effort Between Occupational Therapy and Computer Science. BRAIN INJURY.
• (2025). Defining a recommendation system to configure personalized assistance for individuals with cognitive impairments due to a traumatic brain injury. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES. DOI
• (2025). The COOK assistive technology for cognition for older adults with cognitive deficits: a usability study. DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION-ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY. DOI
• Guillaume Spalla, Amel Yaddaden, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Nathalie Bier. (2024). Assistive technologies designed to support executive function impairments while promoting independence: A scoping review. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering. DOI
• (2024). Codevelopment and Deployment of a System for the Telemonitoring of Activities of Daily Living Among Older Adults Receiving Home Care Services: Protocol for an Action Design Research Study. JMIR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS. DOI
• (2024). Ontology Alignment: First Step towards Voice Control for Smart-Home Assistive Scenarios*. 20TH INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & MOBILE COMPUTING CONFERENCE, IWCMC 2024. DOI
• (2024). Telemonitoring activities of daily living in home healthcare services to support aging in place. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. DOI
• (2023). <i>NEARS</i>-<i>Hub</i>, a Lightweight Edge Computing for Real-Time Monitoring in Smart Environments. PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING & AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE (UCAMI 2022). DOI
• (2023). My Iliad: A Ludic Interface Using Ambient Assistive Technology to Promote Aging in Place. HUMAN ASPECTS OF IT FOR THE AGED POPULATION, ITAP 2023, PT II. DOI
• (2022). <i>OntoDomus</i>: A Semantic Model for Ambient Assisted Living System Based on Smart Homes. ELECTRONICS. DOI
• (2021). Handling of Labeling Uncertainty in Smart Homes using Generalizable Fuzzy Features. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2021 CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL GOOD, GOODIT 2021. DOI
• (2021). SAPA Technology: An AAL Architecture for Telemonitoring. HEALTHINF: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES - VOL 5: HEALTHINF. DOI
• (2020). Context awareness architecture for ambient-assisted living applications: Case study of nighttime wandering. JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION AND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING. DOI
• (2020). Using Augmented Reality and Ontologies to Co-design Assistive Technologies in Smart Homes. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES COMPANION (IUI'20). DOI
• (2019). An IoT Architecture of Microservices for Ambient Assisted Living Environments to Promote Aging in Smart Cities. HOW AI IMPACTS URBAN LIVING AND PUBLIC HEALTH, ICOST 2019. DOI
• (2017). Designing calm and non-intrusive ambient assisted living system for monitoring nighttime wanderings. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PERVASIVE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS. DOI
• (2017). Formal Specification for Ambient Assisted Living Scenarios. UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING AND AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE, UCAMI 2017. DOI

Chapitres de livre

• Johan Tchassem, Jordan F. Masakuna, Sylvain Giroux, Hubert Ngankam. (2026). A Fuzzy Logic-Based Adaptive Framework for Context-Aware and Safe Cooking Assistance with COOK: A Cognitive Orthosis for cOoKing. DOI
• Ariaz Hashemi, Ivan Ange Bouh, Henri-Louis Charbonneau, Maxime Leroux, Jordan Félicien Masakuna, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam. (2026). BLUR: Spatially-Adaptive LiDAR Anonymization with Preserved Activity Recognition for Bathroom Monitoring. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. DOI
• Hui Chen, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Kévin Bouchard, Sébastien Gaboury, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam, Maxime Lussier, Mélanie Couture, Nathalie Bier, Sylvain Giroux. (2026). Federated Contrastive Self-supervised Learning for Human Activity Recognition in Smart Homes. DOI
• Guillaume Spalla, Célia Lignon, Paul Guerlin, Jordan F. Masakuna, Nadia Mohammed-Azizi, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Hubert Ngankam. (2026). Improving Admin User Experience in Time Banking: A Design Thinking Approach for Réseau Accorderie. DOI
• Sylvain Giroux, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam, Corentin Haidon, Hélène Pigot. (2025). A Do-It-Yourself Approach to Ambient Assisted Living. DOI
• Sébastien Poulin, Natasa Obradovic, Julie Lacerte, Véronique Provencher, Hélène Pigot, Sylvain Giroux, Hubert Ngankam. (2024). Wireless Alert Technology for Elderly Care at Home. DOI
• Tekemetieu, A.A., Haidon, C., Bergeron, F., Ngankam, H.K., Pigot, H., Gouin-Vallerand, C., Giroux, S. (2021). Context Modelling in Ambient Assisted Living: Trends and Lessons. International Series in Operations Research and Management Science. DOI
• Bouchard, K., Hao, J., Bouchard, B., Gaboury, S., Moutacalli, M.T., Gouin-Vallerand, C., Kenfack Ngankam, H., Pigot, H., Giroux, S. (2018). The cornerstones of smart home research for healthcare. Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies. DOI

Articles de conférence

• Jordan Félicien Masakuna, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam. (2026). A Detail-Oriented Auto-Encoder for Subtle Anomaly Detection in Human Activity Recognition. DOI
• Hubert Kenfack Ngankam, Ivan Ange Bouh. (2026). Reconnaissance sous occlusion d’activités complexes d’hygiène avec variants comportementaux pour l’assistance contextuelle. DOI
• Rania Taleb, Sylvain Hallé, Roger Villemaire, Sébastien Gaboury, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam. (2025). Sanity Checks in Smart Home Sensor Streams. DOI
• Hui Chen, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Kévin Bouchard, Sébastien Gaboury, Hubert Kenfack Ngankam, Maxime Lussier, Mélanie Couture, Nathalie Bier, Sylvain Giroux. (2024). Utilizing Self-Supervised Learning for Recognizing Human Activity in Older Adults through Labeling Applications in Real-World Smart Homes. DOI
• Ngankam, H., Pigot, H., Giroux, S. (2023). Experimentation of a Nighttime Wandering Assistance System Based on AAL Solutions to Foster Aging at Home. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Lnicst. DOI
• Ngankam, H., Dion, P., Pigot, H., Giroux, S. (2023). Real-Time Multiple Object Tracking for Safe Cooking Activities. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. DOI
• Demongivert, C., Bouchard, K., Gaboury, S., Lussier, M., Kenfack-Ngankam, H., Couture, M., Bier, N., Giroux, S. (2020). Fuzzy Features for Quality Estimation of Activity Instances in a Dataset. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. DOI
• Oliveira, C.H.S., Giroux, S., Ngankam, H., Pigot, H. (2017). Generating bayesian network structures for self-diagnosis of sensor networks in the context of ambient assisted living for aging well. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. DOI
• Radziszewski, R., Grégoire, V., Ngankam, H., Lorrain, D., Pigot, H., Giroux, S. (2016). An ambient assisted living nighttime wandering system for elderly. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. DOI

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés ou supervisés à l'UdeS

• IFT630 - Processus concurrents et parallélisme. (2024-2026). (3CR).
• IFT785 - Approches orientées objets. (2025-2026). (3CR).
• IGL784 - Projet d'intégration et de recherche. (2026). (3CR).

Activités professionnelles

• Université de Sherbrooke. Département Informatique. Examinateur interne de thèse. Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. (2025-).
• UQAC. Département d'informatique. Évaluateur externe - thèse. Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. (2025-).
• CIHR. Programme Dimensions sociales du vieillissement. Évaluateur en formation. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (2024-).