Title :
Ambulatory health monitoring and remote sensing systems to be used by outpatients and elders at home: User-related design considerations
Author :
Moulton, Bruce ; Chen, June ; Croucher, Graham ; Lal, Sara ; Lawrence, Elaine ; Mahendran, Lukshi ; Varis, Andrew
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of Technol. Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
Recent developments have seen increased interest in the effect of end-user attributes on the in-practice effectiveness of systems that detect incapacitating falls and trauma at home. It is hoped that consideration and evaluation of such issues will ultimately result in long-term benefits including earlier crisis detection and response, reduced hospital admissions, and improved quality of life for relatively large groups of people. Key concerns include the needs and capabilities of end-users, the ability to nominate who is to be alerted, security, privacy, interface design and system failures. It is concluded that particularly relevant avenues for further research include end-user characteristics, interface design and peer-to-peer components.
Keywords :
biomechanics; geriatrics; patient monitoring; peer-to-peer computing; remote sensing; telemedicine; ambulatory health monitoring; earlier crisis detection; elders; end-user characteristics; incapacitating fall detection; interface design; outpatients; peer-to-peer components; privacy; reduced hospital admissions; remote sensing systems; security; system failures; trauma; user-related design considerations; Aging; Australia; Costs; Hospitals; Medical services; Myocardium; Pain; Remote monitoring; Senior citizens; Sensor systems; aged care; ambulatory monitoring; eHealth; end-users; falls; home; remote sensing; trauma detection;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, 2009. Healthcom 2009. 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5013-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5014-5
DOI :
10.1109/HEALTH.2009.5406191