{"title":"Perceived usefulness of assistive technologies and electronic services for ambient assisted living","authors":"M. Ziefle, C. Röcker, Andreas Holzinger","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246044","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on a study analyzing the attitudes of users towards different types of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) services. The study explores the acceptance and terms of use of large interactive screens for the most common applications types: health, social and convenience services. In order to understand the impact of user diversity, we explored age, gender, health status, social contact, interest in technology, and the reported ease of use as well as their relation to acceptance. Using the questionnaire method, 30 women and 30 men between 17-95 years were examined. The results show that users are not yet very familiar with the vision of smart technology at home and report a considerable diffidence and aloofness towards using such technologies. Persons with many social contacts and a high interest in technology show the highest acceptance for electronic services at home. Astonishingly, the results for the different applications were insensitive to gender and age, which indicates that the precautious attitude towards AAL applications represents a universal phenomenon. Consequently, acceptance criteria as well as users' needs and wants should be seriously considered in order to successfully design smart home technologies.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"126 32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132804001","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":"Supporting stakeholder needs by ceding control: The benefits of listening to end-users","authors":"A. Glascock, D. Kutzik","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.245997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.245997","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on the progressive design process and actual use and evaluation in situ of an informatics system-the Home Care Informatics System-that transmits information obtained by home based pervasive health care systems to caregivers and clients in a timely manner and easily usable format. Since 2006, three versions of the system have been tested in a series of studies with care provision organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Findings from the studies have driven the development of the different iterations with the result being a customized model of pervasive health care that relies on the needs of the end-users, rather than the goals of the developers. Barriers encountered during the testing, that appear to be generalizable to the successful adoption of pervasive health care systems in general, are discussed and possible solutions suggested.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116641210","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":"Increased data quality in home blood pressure monitoring through context awareness","authors":"S. Wagner, T. Toftegaard, O. Bertelsen","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.245968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.245968","url":null,"abstract":"A range of recommendations exists on how to obtain a valid blood pressure. With the blood pressure devices currently available it cannot be verified whether a user is actually following these recommendations or not. This paper reports on the findings from a feasibility study on ubiquitous sensing of user behavioral context during blood pressure monitoring in the home setting. A prototype system using a context-aware chair-cover is evaluated through laboratory experiments and user evaluation. Results indicate that relevant user-context can be successfully monitored. Findings may lead to better user guidance and increase the quality of data available to caretakers.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116685968","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}
Julie Doyle, B. O'Mullane, Ann O'Hannlon, R. B. Knapp
{"title":"Requirements gathering for the delivery of healthcare data in aware homes","authors":"Julie Doyle, B. O'Mullane, Ann O'Hannlon, R. B. Knapp","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246059","url":null,"abstract":"Aware homes support the monitoring of older adults, with the potential to detect a wealth of information regarding the person's functional, cognitive and social wellbeing. While much research in this space focuses on the collection and interpretation of sensor data, it is equally important to understand how we can begin to relay the information learned back to older adults, empowering them to play an active role in the management of their health. In this paper we discuss the results of the requirements gathering phase of our research with a number of older adults living in aware homes. The goal of this research is to explore issues surrounding the delivery of healthcare information, as collected through embedded sensors in the home, to the home owner. Our results reveal a number of emerging themes around this space, including a desire by older adults to play an active role in managing their health and potential concerns surrounding the delivery of such information through technology.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123346489","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":"Integrating volunteered geographic information into pervasive health computing applications","authors":"P. Mooney, P. Corcoran","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246093","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe the potential for using Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in pervasive health computing. We use the OpenStreetMap project as a case-study of a successful VGI project and investigate how it can be expanded and used as a source of spatial information for pervasive computing technologies particularly in the area of access to information on healthcare services.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123762603","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":"From self-monitoring to self-understanding: Going beyond physiological sensing for supporting wellbeing","authors":"D. Pavel, V. Callaghan, A. Dey","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.245999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.245999","url":null,"abstract":"Even though mental health is an important part of our wellbeing we believe that, so far, it has been overlooked in favour of physical health by most of the existing self-monitoring solutions. Our goal is to utilise context aware technologies in order to support people in understanding how various aspects of their lives influence their wellbeing, including their mental health. For that, we need to gain a deeper insight into the challenges of designing such solutions, from sensing to interaction paradigms. This paper describes our system, the design challenges we have encountered, the decisions we have made and our ongoing work in terms of system design as well as usage experiments.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128601469","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":"Social interaction around diet applications: An initial study","authors":"Feng Gao, M. Schraefel","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246015","url":null,"abstract":"As being threatened by overweight and obesity, more and more people start thinking how to change the way they eat. However, less evidence shows current diet-related applications really work and current design mainly focuses on nutrition value and are not tailored to specific person. In this paper, we try to learn from social science to investigate two popular diet products' forums to see what social interaction happens and what elements related to those social interaction. Then we find out contextual information and emotion are related to social conversation on forum which help people find similar buddies to solve problem and validate opinions and understandings. We argue we should take into account those information and social interaction in our future design to better support diet.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"185 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129652799","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}
L. Axelrod, G. Fitzpatrick, F. Henwood, J. Cassell, H. Smith, A. Nicholson, G. Rait
{"title":"Data recording in primary care field studies: Patient records enhancement project","authors":"L. Axelrod, G. Fitzpatrick, F. Henwood, J. Cassell, H. Smith, A. Nicholson, G. Rait","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246073","url":null,"abstract":"This position paper describes the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) field studies component of the multidisciplinary Patient Records Enhancement Project (PREP). PREP seeks to understand variability of data found in primary care electronic records, in particular the balance between coded data and doctor's 'free text' notes. HCI fieldwork will establish variables that affect recording practices. In field studies we observe and record data recording practices in general practice (GP) surgeries, interview staff, video consultations with real patients and video consultations with standardized patients (played by medical actors). By standardizing patients we can compare the impact of other variables: different doctors, in different surgeries, using different e-health systems. Our early findings suggest that variability is due to a complex web of reasons, driven by personal, contextual and organizational processes. Findings from thematic analysis will result in design implications for studies by epidemiologists and public health researchers, design of NHS training and work processes, and design of electronic health record interfaces.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130093897","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}
Liang Liu, M. Popescu, M. Skubic, M. Rantz, T. Yardibi, P. Cuddihy
{"title":"Automatic fall detection based on Doppler radar motion signature","authors":"Liang Liu, M. Popescu, M. Skubic, M. Rantz, T. Yardibi, P. Cuddihy","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.245993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.245993","url":null,"abstract":"Falling is a common health problem for elderly. It is reported that more than one third of adults 65 and older fall each year in the United States. To address the problem, we are currently developing a Doppler radar-based fall detection system. Doppler radar sensors provide an inexpensive way to recognize human activity. In this paper, we employed mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) to represent the Doppler signatures of various human activities such as walking, bending down, falling, etc. Then we used two different classifiers, SVM and kNN, to automatically detect falls based on the extracted MFCC features. We obtained encouraging classification results on a pilot dataset that contained 109 falls and 341 non-fall human activities.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123062828","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":"Development of a telemedical platform: Challenges, requirements, and solutions","authors":"R. Ghosh, H. Schellhorn","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246043","url":null,"abstract":"Telehealth supported care coordination for patients with chronic diseases has been established for more than 10 years. New requirements and challenges for the development of a modern telemedical platform are emerging as organizations attempt large-scale implementations and the integration of telehealth in a variety of care settings. This paper describes a newly developed telehealth system that is already deployed commercially along with future challenges facing this system.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127748174","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}