An extensible situation-aware caring system for real-world smart wards
Journal
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Journal Volume
7251 LNCS
Pages
190-197
Date Issued
2012
Author(s)
Huang, Yu-Chiao
Liao, Chun-Feng
Yen, Yu Chun
Hou, Li-Jen
Abstract
Context-aware caring system is capable of effectively improving quality of health care in hospitals. Most of current context-aware health care systems adopt only simple context information, which only provide limited supports to caregivers. In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of a new situation-aware caring system for smart wards, which combines multiple contexts and infer patients' "situations". This system is built and evaluated in a real-world hospital. We also report lessons learned, preliminary results of empirical deployment, and questionnaire surveys of caregivers. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
Type
conference paper