Agile processes such as XP (

applications based on the concept of a trail, which is a contexAbstract-Healthcare professionals working in highly dynamic tually scheduled collection of activities. The framework conhospital environments typically have correspondingly dynamic tains reusable structure and behaviour common to mobile, schedules that are difficult to manage. Emergent tasks and shift-context-aware activity scheduling applications, saving develing priorities result in existing schedules becoming obsolete. Pervasive computing technology can aid healthcare professionals in opersfr ate dly addressingbcommon cene s. We organising daily activities by exploiting knowledge of planned illustrate how the framework can be used to develop an appliand emerging tasks, of patients and colleagues, and of the general cation to dynamically adapt the schedules of healthcare prostate of the working environment. The Hermes software frame-fessionals based on their personal, environmental, and patient work at Trinity College Dublin supports the development of mo-contexts.bile applications for human activity management that exploitsThe remainder of this paper is organised as follows: Section such environmental knowledge. Supported applications are based 1 motivates our work in the area of healthcare and Section III on the concept of a trail. This paper describes the Hermes framework and illustrates how it can be used to implement applications presents our model for facilitating change. Section IV prothat can automatically reorganise the schedules of healthcare vides details of the Hermes framework. Section V contains a workers based on sensed changes in their environment. discussion of pervasive healthcare-specific challenges. SectionIndex Terms-context-aware scheduling, pervasive computing, VI discusses related work and Section VII concludes the pahealthcare, trailsper.

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