Title :
A Web-based home welfare and care services request system using a pen type image sensor
Author :
Ogawa, Hidekuni ; Maki, Hiromichi ; Ninomiya, Ishio ; Yonezawa, Yoshiharu ; Sato, Haruhiko ; Caldwell, W. Morton
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Intellectual Syst., Hiroshima Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
In Japan, hospital or welfare office home helpers provide home welfare and care services, such as cooking, bathing, washing, cleaning and shopping, for the elderly. We have developed a Web-based home welfare and care services request system using wireless Internet mobile phones and Internet client computers; it employs a pen type image sensor for the elderly people to enter their handwritten care requests. The client computer sends the requests to the server computer in the home helper central office, and then the server computer automatically transfers them to the home helper´s mobile phone. This newly-developed home welfare and care services request system is easily operated by elderly persons.
Keywords :
Internet telephony; client-server systems; geriatrics; handwritten character recognition; image processing; mobile radio; public administration; care services; character recognition; client computer; elderly people; handwritten care requests; home helpers; home welfare; pen type image sensor; server computer; wireless Internet mobile phone; Central office; Cleaning; Home computing; Hospitals; Image sensors; Mobile handsets; Senior citizens; Web and internet services; Web server; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. CCNC 2004. First IEEE
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8145-9
DOI :
10.1109/CCNC.2004.1286932
