Towards the Management of the Location and Use of Medical Equipment with Reduced User Interaction in Health Centers 4.0

Quickly locating equipment in health centers, such as hospitals, may be vital to saving a patient. This research intersects human-computer interaction, software engineering, health centers 4.0, and the Internet of Things to address this problem. We propose to support the management of the location and use of medical equipment within health centers by utilizing context-aware interactive software systems while contributing to reducing the explicit interactions between users and software systems. In this work in progress, we have defined a preliminary version of a conceptual model for characterizing the problem of locating medical equipment (objects) and observing their usage states in health centers by relating users, locations, technologies, and objects to be located while representing the objects’ traits and the Environment’s rules. The first model instance (proof of concept) illustrates the proposed approach. Furthermore, to verify the feasibility of the proposed conceptual model, it will be used to conceive context-aware IoT software systems in hospitals in two countries.