Yao-Jen Chang, Chien-Nien Chen, Li-Der Chou, Tsen-Yung Wang
{"title":"A novel indoor wayfinding system based on passive RFID for individuals with cognitive impairments","authors":"Yao-Jen Chang, Chien-Nien Chen, Li-Der Chou, Tsen-Yung Wang","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2506","url":null,"abstract":"A novel wayfinding system is presented with an aim to increase workplace and life independence for cognitive-impaired patients such as people with traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, schizophrenia, and Alzheimerpsilas disease. It is based on passive RFID tags which embed the coordinate (x, y, floor). According to psychological model of spatial navigation and the requirements of rehabilitation professionals, PDAs prompting with spatial photos at the right time and place can assist cognitively-impaired persons with navigating indoors or on the road. To do so, passive RFID tags which can be imagined as a new traffic sign system, are posted to selected positions on routes. The navigational photos are served on demand to the user who uses the built-in RFID reader to sense the RFID tag when it is in eyesight range. A tracking function is integrated to timestamp the visited positions and issue alerts in case of anomalies. The tracking system increases the sense of security and also lowers the entry threshold to accepting the assistive technology. A prototype which consists of wayfinding devices and a tracking system, is designed and tested on a university campus. Compared to the sensor network approach, RFID tags are easier and faster to deploy and the cost is lower. The experimental results show the computer-human interface is friendly and the capabilities of wayfinding are reliable.","PeriodicalId":313776,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133692256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ambulatory monitor derived clinical measures for continuous assessment of cardiac rehabilitation patients in a community care model","authors":"N. Bidargaddi, Antti Särelä","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2544","url":null,"abstract":"Ambulatory monitoring tools provide a means for continuous assessment of patients compared to hospital based tools. Continuous physiological information such as ECG, heart rate, activity profile and energy expenditure can be derived from a single waist mounted activity monitor. This information when translated into clinically relevant measures, not only reflects patients condition in a similar way as convention tools but also shows the continuous status of functional capacity. In this paper, various such clinically relevant measures which can be derived from acceleration and ECG signals are described.","PeriodicalId":313776,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130528652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Masakazu Miyamae, F. Naya, T. Toriyama, M. Kanai-Pak, K. Kogure
{"title":"Design guidelines of a context-aware notification system for nursing","authors":"Masakazu Miyamae, F. Naya, T. Toriyama, M. Kanai-Pak, K. Kogure","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2550","url":null,"abstract":"Providing helpful advice to nurses has great potential for decreasing medical errors. However, a notification without regard to their context may cause a medical error. To reveal the dependency between suitable information display methods and such parameters as nursing duties and the immediacy of advice, an experimental study with simulated patients was conducted in which 38 real nurses wearing an information display device on their wrists were asked to perform several nursing duties. Based on an analysis of questionnaires and the distribution of nurse response times after receiving the notification, we established guidelines for a context-aware notification system for nursing. By developing a system based on these guidelines, the system can safely display advice in a feasible and effective manner.","PeriodicalId":313776,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130787157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Merilahti, M. Gils, T. Petäkoski-Hult, Outi Kenttä, Esko Hyvärinen, J. Hyttinen, H. Kailanto
{"title":"ECG monitoring of cardiac patients at home: experiences with scenarios and signal processing methods","authors":"J. Merilahti, M. Gils, T. Petäkoski-Hult, Outi Kenttä, Esko Hyvärinen, J. Hyttinen, H. Kailanto","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2575","url":null,"abstract":"Controlled cardiac rehabilitation has shown to be an effective and cost-efficient form of treatment. However, it could be supported by technology. We used a scenario-based method to approach the issue and to consider it from the technical perspective. We also tried out signal processing methods in rejection of artifacts and quantization of ECG features from ECG data collected with two different portable recorders. For example correct R-peak detection rates ranged between 98.2% and 99.9% with 5 different tested R-peak detection routines. Conclusions: comments resulted from the scenario work was educative and simple ECG signal processing results promising.","PeriodicalId":313776,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117209416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kalid Elmufti, D. Weerasinghe, M. Rajarajan, V. Rakocevic, Sanowar Khan
{"title":"Timestamp authentication protocol for remote monitoring in eHealth","authors":"Kalid Elmufti, D. Weerasinghe, M. Rajarajan, V. Rakocevic, Sanowar Khan","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2542","url":null,"abstract":"Remote monitoring is fundamental in eHealth and introducing mobile devices in the remote monitoring process can provide additional benefits to both patients and medical personnel. For mobile remote monitoring systems to be successful, however, the authentication process must be in place to prevent the misuse of the system. In this paper we analyse the use of timestamps in the authentication process, showing many advantages timestamps have over other authentication methods. The paper presents the design principles for timestamp based authentication protocols in remote monitoring systems and proposes a specific protocol to implement such a system.","PeriodicalId":313776,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123051808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HDGPortal: A Grid portal application for pervasive access to process-based healthcare systems","authors":"Vassiliki Koufi, G. Vassilacopoulos","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2519","url":null,"abstract":"Healthcare is an increasingly collaborative enterprise, involving many individuals and organizations. The ability to provide readily access to integrated healthcare services remotely is now essential. Although Grid technology can support the integration of healthcare services across settings of care and among providers of care, it doesnpsilat make these services available to authorized users at the point of care when needed. The integration of mobile and wireless devices with Grid technology can provide ubiquitous and pervasive access to Grid services. This paper presents HDGPortal, a Grid portal application which provides access to workflow-based healthcare processes using wireless Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). HDGPortalpsilas architecture is based on wrapping the workflow applications as web services and web service resources. These services are available to users through a number of Grid portal components that can be used for workflow enactment. HDGPortal has been implemented with a multi-layered security infrastructure in order to ensure secure access to healthcare processes.","PeriodicalId":313776,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124007098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Cheng, Jin-Ren Jeng, Zhu-Xuan Lin, Jiunn-Horng Lee
{"title":"Approximating Heart Rate Variability","authors":"J. Cheng, Jin-Ren Jeng, Zhu-Xuan Lin, Jiunn-Horng Lee","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2552","url":null,"abstract":"Heart rate variability (HRV) measurement in the field has not been widely studied due to the presence of substantial noises in certain circumstances even after signal processing. To overcome such a difficulty, a method, called VACA (vote-and-chain algorithm) is proposed to obtain an approximate HRV measurement. With VACA, the contaminated ECGs can be patched to obtain HRV metric, such as SDNN, even when the arrival rate of noises has reached the same level of heart rate. The performance of this algorithm is evaluated with 27,000 contaminated ECGs which are synthesized by real ECGs in the Physio-Net and noises of Poisson process. The best parameters for VACA are explored so that it can reach an accuracy of (100plusmn20)% for 97% of the 27000 contaminated ECG data. The experiment results show that VACA is an robust method for HRV measurement in applications that long-term multi-lead ECG is not feasible.","PeriodicalId":313776,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127806711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Semi-automatic calibration of 3D camera images — Monitoring activities made easy","authors":"B. Jansen, R. Deklerck","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2796","url":null,"abstract":"A major practical problem when implementing home monitoring using 3D camera technology is the calibration process which serves to relate the camera coordinate system to a coordinate system interpretable by the caregiver. In this paper, we propose a calibration algorithm which can relate both coordinate systems without performing actual measurements of the position of reference points in the room. The calibration tool is constructed such that it can be operated by any caregiver and hence eases the deployment of the home monitoring appliances. Our method (semi)automatically detects a plane corresponding to the ground floor in the three dimensional images. Random points from that plane are used to calculate rotation angles in a least squares manner. Experiments are performed to investigate how the obtained results depend on the parameters of the algorithm.","PeriodicalId":313776,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128710999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Hanser, Agnes Grünerbl, C. Rodegast, P. Lukowicz
{"title":"Design and real life deployment of a pervasive monitoring system for dementia patients","authors":"F. Hanser, Agnes Grünerbl, C. Rodegast, P. Lukowicz","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2523","url":null,"abstract":"We present the first phase of a project for monitoring elderly people suffering from dementia in the dasiareal lifepsila environment of an dasiaassisted livingpsila flat associated with a nursing home. Based on monitoring requirements derived in discussions with the nursing staff the system consists of a UBISENSE location system for monitoring location, a sound-system for monitoring vocal interaction, and the TECO dasiaParticlespsila sensor nodes mounted under the beds for sleep monitoring. In this paper we introduce the background and environment of the project, describe the requirements and the system and present some initial data collected in the first deployment period.","PeriodicalId":313776,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128481544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assistive housing: Case study in a residence for elderly people","authors":"M. Ghorbel, F. Arab, M. Mokhtari","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2798","url":null,"abstract":"The ageing of the population increased the needs of elderly people for assistance and care in specialized structures. They become increasingly dependent. Adequate environment have to be provided to fit with their special needs and constraints. This paper presents a case study of assistive housing in a residence for elderly people. The technical assistance like home automation, task reminder and personal assistant is provided in order to enhance the independence of elderly people. The paper focuses on the use of the TV as an interaction mean to use proposed services. The graphical interface deployed on the TV was evaluated by elderly people and resulting ergonomic recommendations. This research activity is ongoing work within the Nuadu project.","PeriodicalId":313776,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116179026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}