Interactive communication system for patients with disabilities — The software component

In the last few years an increasing interest for the improvement of communication with people with disabilities for therapeutic purposes as well as educative, has been observed. For this purpose, a complex communication system (ASISTSYS), based on key-word transmission from the patient and vocal and/or key word reply from the caretaker has been proposed. The system insures radio communication between patient and caretaker: (a) in case of treatment within a care center/hospital through a dispatch or (b) in case of in-house treatment. The hardware component has been presented in previous papers. This paper presents the software component of the system, divided into three modules: patient, caretaker and dispatcher.