{"title":"Managing territorial emergencies with Ubimedic2","authors":"Elton Domnori, Giacomo Cabri, L. Leonardi","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.245990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.245990","url":null,"abstract":"We propose Ubimedic2, an agent based framework that enables the implementation of Multi-Agent Systems for emergency management and territorial disasters. In this demo we present a simple simulation to better expose the Ubimedic2 functionalities.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"1 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":"129839638","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":"Situated crowdsourcing: A pragmatic approach to encouraging participation in healthcare design","authors":"P. Marshall, R. Cain, S. Payne","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246095","url":null,"abstract":"In this position paper, we outline a project being developed to improve the physical environment of a hospital emergency department to reduce staff stress levels and increase restorative opportunities. We outline a potential pragmatic participatory method to deal with staff members' limited time, which uses social software implemented on situated interactive displays.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"56 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":"121032699","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":"Prospect of smart home-based detection of subclinical depressive disorders","authors":"E. Leon, Manu Montejo, Iñigo Dorronsoro","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246106","url":null,"abstract":"Aging is associated with changing physical, social, emotional, and financial circumstances that are often new to the elder. The affective distress that stems from coping with them could play a negative effect on the health of seniors and lead to severe cases of depression, an emotional disorder that could lead to fatal consequences. The combination of novel methods of ambulatory detection of emotional states, body area networks providing information from numerous bodily parameters, and sophisticated pervasive technologies offers new possibilities in the detection of and intervention in cases of subclinical depression. In this paper we present the technical aspects and rationale behind systems that can use emotional valence monitoring to quantify prolonged emotional negativity and identify the activities associated with such negativity. We argue that this as a suitable mechanism to facilitate ambient-mediated self-regulation and remote peer-support.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"12 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":"126380711","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}
A. Stainer-Hochgatterer, Lukas Roedl, Alberto Martínez, I. Etxeberria, E. Aldaz, Bernhard Wöckl, J. Bund
{"title":"Requirements for a behaviour pattern based assistant for early detection and management of neurodegenerative diseases","authors":"A. Stainer-Hochgatterer, Lukas Roedl, Alberto Martínez, I. Etxeberria, E. Aldaz, Bernhard Wöckl, J. Bund","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246009","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the various aspects of the BEDMOND AAL Joint Programme project, which aims at the development of an ICT-based system for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, with focus on the identified applied reasoning layers. First the requirements of such a behaviour pattern based assistant are discussed, then the used system architecture is introduced and finally the applied reasoning layers for the situation recognition, interpretation and data representation layers are also detailed.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"56 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":"125744501","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":"Acoustical method for objective food intake monitoring using a wearable sensor system","authors":"S. Päßler, Wolf-Joachim Fischer","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246029","url":null,"abstract":"A method for non-invasive monitoring of human food intake behavior and long-term dietary protocol has been developed by the sole use of chewing and swallowing sound sensors. A hierarchical model of daily food intake is introduced for dietary protocol. Microphones were found to be more useable for this recording task than accelerometers. Hence, a novel sensor system has been built containing two microphones in a hearing aid case in order to record chewing and swallowing sounds in the ear canal and environmental noise, respectively. Records of the intake sounds of 51 participants consuming seven types of food and one drink were taken for the development of detection and classification algorithms.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"9 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":"126949491","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}
Franz Werner, Josef Diermaier, Sebastian Schmid, P. Panek
{"title":"Fall detection with distributed floor-mounted accelerometers: An overview of the development and evaluation of a fall detection system within the project eHome","authors":"Franz Werner, Josef Diermaier, Sebastian Schmid, P. Panek","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246088","url":null,"abstract":"Within the project \"eHome\" a prototype of an assistive home system was developed, aiming to prolong the independent life of elderly people at home. Besides communication, e-access and safety relevant features, a core part of this system is an automatic fall detection, which utilizes floor-mounted accelerometers to gather body-sound signals that typically occur during a human fall. This approach targets to avoid acceptance, usability and reliability issues of available body-mounted fall detectors. The system was developed with focus on practical applicability, reliability and exploitability. The prototype was evaluated successfully in laboratory and during 507 days in real-life at homes of persons from the target group. During the laboratory trials a sensitivity of 87% and a specificity of 97.7% could be achieved for a defined fall scenario and across four tested floors. Further research is suggested to investigate floor dependencies of the fall detection performance.","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":"133768249","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}
A. Zarghami, M. Eslami, B. Sapkota, M. V. Sinderen
{"title":"Toward dynamic service provisioning in the homecare domain","authors":"A. Zarghami, M. Eslami, B. Sapkota, M. V. Sinderen","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246042","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamicity is one of the main challenges in providing sustainable solutions for the homecare domain. The dynamicity of homecare systems, caused by external entities like care-receivers and care-givers, can be addressed through combining distributed and heterogenous services both in design and runtime. In general, several research fields such as dynamic service composition, context-aware service composition and dynamic configuration contribute to provide solutions to handle the dynamicity. However, the dynamicity requirements and constrains in homecare domain demands its own solutions. In this paper, we explain our understanding of a homecare provisioning platform and its external entities which interact with the platform. Based on our application scenario and literature study, we identify different types of changes which are imposed by the external entities. Moreover, the characteristics of the external entities, which need to be taken into account to address the dynamicity, are discussed. Then, we study the existing dynamic service composition approaches to see their feasibility for the homecare domain. Finally, we explain our motivation for choosing a hybrid service composition approach as our basis for the homecare provisioning platform with respect to the identified changes and characteristics coming from the external entities.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"1 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":"115545349","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}
Kamran Farooq, A. Hussain, S. Leslie, Chris Eckl, W. Slack
{"title":"Ontology-driven cardiovascular decision support system","authors":"Kamran Farooq, A. Hussain, S. Leslie, Chris Eckl, W. Slack","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246092","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss work-in-progress and propose an ontology driven framework for the development of a clinical expert system for chest pain risk assessment. The framework has the following key components: adaptive questionnaire, patient medical history, risk assessment and decision support. We intend to incorporate a range of chest pain assessment guidelines and risk scoring rules within the system and design the framework so it can be extended to a range of other cardiovascular diseases in various clinical settings.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"96 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":"116319483","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}
Lizzy Bleumers, An Jacobs, F. Ongenae, A. Ackaert, Nicky Sulmon, M. Verstraete, M. V. Gils, Saar De Zutter
{"title":"Towards ontology co-creation in institutionalized care settings","authors":"Lizzy Bleumers, An Jacobs, F. Ongenae, A. Ackaert, Nicky Sulmon, M. Verstraete, M. V. Gils, Saar De Zutter","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246110","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe how we have, thus far, conducted ontology co-creation in institutionalized care settings (i.e., a care residence and a hospital). We describe the goal and procedure of the co-creation workshops that we have already held. Through this paper, we want to start a discussion on ontology co-creation's merits and on appropriate co-creation methods within these settings. In return, we offer what we have learned from our ongoing research.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"11 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":"128517163","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, Madeline Balaam, S. Mawson, J. Burridge, I. Ricketts, P. Smith, T. Rodden
{"title":"A toolkit to explore lived experience of motivation: When words are not enough","authors":"L. Axelrod, G. Fitzpatrick, Madeline Balaam, S. Mawson, J. Burridge, I. Ricketts, P. Smith, T. Rodden","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2011.246135","url":null,"abstract":"Designing to support motivation is an increasingly important issue, especially as pervasive technologies are used to facilitate various healthy behaviour changes. There are many motivation theories but these do not map specifically to inform design. In 'Motivating Mobility' we explore the lived experiences of motivation of people with stroke, in order to design rehabilitation technologies. Motivation varies between people, between contexts and over time and can be 'difficult to express', particularly for those with communication problems. We describe development of a theoretically based toolkit, principled in both content and form, and using multiple modes of communication, aimed at gathering motivational requirements in order to inspire design. We show use of the toolkit, discuss the rich data collected and reflect on how well the approach works and ties requirements, via their elicitation tool, back to theory. This toolkit has potential to inform design for motivational effect in similar pervasive health applications.","PeriodicalId":444978,"journal":{"name":"2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops","volume":"182 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":"125828627","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}