Title :
Wearable systems in nursing home care: prototyping experience
Author :
Drugge, Mikael ; Hallberg, Josef ; Parnes, Peter ; Synnes, Kåre
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Lulea Univ. of Technol., Sweden
Abstract :
Productivity in nursing care is a major concern in all residential facilities, as is improving the quality of care. Pervasive computing offers great promise in this area. In this paper we discuss requirements analysis, multiphase prototyping, and effective use of commercial off-the-shelf technologies to improve communication and situation awareness in nursing teams. We developed a wearable prototype with only a person-month of development time, using existing electronic meeting technologies for its multimodal communication platform.
Keywords :
health care; patient care; telemedicine; ubiquitous computing; commercial off-the-shelf technologies; electronic meeting technologies; multimodal communication platform; multiphase prototyping; nursing home care; pervasive computing; requirements analysis; situation awareness; wearable system; Hardware; Information security; Medical services; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Personnel; Productivity; Prototypes; Software prototyping; User interfaces; medical computing; software prototyping; ubiquitous computing;
Journal_Title :
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPRV.2006.20
