Awareness of Daily Life Activities

Metaxas, Georgios; Metin, Barbaros; Schneider, JM Jutta; Markopoulos, Panos; Ruyter, Ber Boris de

doi:10.1007/978-1-84882-477-5_15

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“…With regard to monitoring elders and caregivers in a healthcare environment, the literature identifies monitoring systems ranging from applications that: (i) seek to maintain the independence of the elderly in his/her daily activities through the use of temperature sensors [ 21 ] and motion sensors [ 22 , 23 ]; (ii) to applications that identify a risk for the dependent elderly or activities for the caregivers using temperature sensors [ 24 ], weight sensors [ 25 ], and computer vision [ 26 , 27 ]. As in other context-aware systems, firstly we capture the primary context (e.g., the identity or location of a person) and then based on it infer the secondary context (e.g., the activity of a person or the occurrence of a Situation of Care ).…”

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CANoE: A Context-Aware Notification Model to Support the Care of Older Adults in a Nursing Home

Nava-Muñoz

Morán

2012

Sensors

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Taking care of elders in a nursing home is not an easy task. Caregivers face two major problems: a lack of awareness of the situations surrounding the elderly care and the lack of information regarding the availability and the activities of other caregivers to support their coordination process. Various efforts have proposed solutions to cope with these problems, but they do it without considering all the requirements imposed by the criticality of this type of environment. In this paper we propose CANoE, a model for the design of context-aware notifications in critical environments, such as a nursing home. The main feature of this model is that it considers three sources of context (the environment, and the issuer and the receiver of the notification) for adapting the content, the terms of delivery and the presentation of the notification message. Based on the CANoE model we developed the CANoE-Aw and CU-IDA systems, which were evaluated through two case studies in a nursing home. The results of these evaluations provide evidence that caregivers achieved an increased awareness of the situations of care of the elderly and perceived the systems as adequate tools to support their coordination while attending a situation of care.

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