Title :
Evaluation of the web-based care-requiring client and Home Helper support system
Author :
Ogawa, Hidekuni ; Yonezawa, Yoshiharu ; Maki, Hiromichi ; Caldwell, W. Morton
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Information & Intellectual Syst., Hiroshima Inst. of Technol.
Abstract :
In Japan, home helpers are employed by hospitals, care companies or the welfare office, and are sent to homes of elderly persons to provide home welfare and care services. The care items for one month are scheduled by the care manager; however, the care items are often changed by request from the client, and the home helpers need to know these changes as soon as possible. The Web-based care-requiring client and home helper support system is employing for improvement of the problem. In this study, we have evaluated the data entry time, the operation of choosing the items, the legibility of buttons displayed on the LCD, and the comprehensibility of displayed care item buttons. The evaluation found the data entry to be an easy operation
Keywords :
Internet; geriatrics; patient care; telemedicine; LCD; Web-based care-requiring client; care services; data entry time; displayed care item button comprehensibility; elderly persons; home helper support system; home welfare; Biology computing; Biomedical computing; Central office; Computer displays; Home computing; Internet; Java; Liquid crystal devices; Liquid crystal displays; Mobile handsets;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617289
