Providing Awareness of Elder's Situations of Care through a Context-Aware Notification Environment: A Preliminary Evaluation

Nava-Muñoz, Sandra; Morán, Alberto L.; Favela, Jesús

doi:10.1109/ie.2010.32

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“…Some research has shown the need for monitoring the healthcare environment, where the monitoring is focused on the caregivers to give a whole awareness of the caregiver over risk situations [34]. Therefore, our framework is fitted to fulfill this need.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Entire analysis of the scenario gave us important results of usefulness from information based on real data; it creates the opportunity to search for appropriate ways to send information related to the environment in an automatic and smart manner. Some research has shown the need for monitoring the healthcare environment, where the monitoring is focused on the caregivers to give a whole awareness of the caregiver over risk situations [ 34 ]. Therefore, our framework is fitted to fulfill this need.…”

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Activity Inference for Ambient Intelligence Through Handling Artifacts in a Healthcare Environment

Martínez-Pérez¹,

González-Fraga²,

Cuevas-Tello

et al. 2012

Sensors

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Human activity inference is not a simple process due to distinct ways of performing it. Our proposal presents the SCAN framework for activity inference. SCAN is divided into three modules: (1) artifact recognition, (2) activity inference, and (3) activity representation, integrating three important elements of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) (artifact-behavior modeling, event interpretation and context extraction). The framework extends the roaming beat (RB) concept by obtaining the representation using three kinds of technologies for activity inference. The RB is based on both analysis and recognition from artifact behavior for activity inference. A practical case is shown in a nursing home where a system affording 91.35% effectiveness was implemented in situ. Three examples are shown using RB representation for activity representation. Framework description, RB description and CALog system overcome distinct problems such as the feasibility to implement AmI systems, and to show the feasibility for accomplishing the challenges related to activity recognition based on artifact recognition. We discuss how the use of RBs might positively impact the problems faced by designers and developers for recovering information in an easier manner and thus they can develop tools focused on the user.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Activity Inference for Ambient Intelligence Through Handling Artifacts in a Healthcare Environment

Martínez-Pérez¹,

González-Fraga²,

Cuevas-Tello

et al. 2012

Sensors

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“…The process consists of the following three phases:

Phase 1. Provide caregivers with awareness about the status of each one of their peers (Caregiver Situation [12]), this state is composed of the following contextual information: caregiver's identity, current activity and location, identity of the elder that the caregiver is currently attending, and the availability of the caregiver with respect to the rest of their peers.

Phase 2. Capture the decision of a caregiver who decides to attend the elder's situation of care.…”

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“…This type of notification is proposed for critical environments such as nursing homes, where the emergence of diverse situations may affect the physical integrity of the elderly; which we refer to as Situations of Care [ 12 ].…”

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“…Application development in nursing homes differs from the development for other environments such as hospitals, homes or offices. The main difference lies in the criticality of the environment in terms of: the types of events/situations that arise (e.g., accidents of the elderly [ 10 ]), staff (caregivers) and their mobility within the environment (e.g., high mobility of caregivers due to the various activities that they carry out [ 11 ]) and the (care) activities performed by this staff (e.g., residential caregivers are responsible for monitoring and caring for older adults [ 12 ]). Therefore, nursing homes can be considered as a critical environment where the wellness of the elderly is the main motivation of the care process.…”

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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

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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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A Review of Notifications Systems in Elder Care Environments

Nava-Muñoz

Morán²

2013

Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services

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For more than a decade, notification systems to support the care of older adults in settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, and homes have been developed. These systems aim to assist in the care process, trying to ensure the safety and wellness of the elderly, and thus to maintain or increase their quality of life. This chapter identifies challenges and areas of opportunity for the implementation of notification systems in these environments, considering a technological perspective. In this work, the authors firstly present a literature review of notification systems in the elderly care environments mentioned above. Subsequently, they propose a taxonomy to classify the reviewed works, and discuss a set of challenges and areas of opportunity that technology can offer in this environment. These areas of opportunity are projected as specific features in each of the identified healthcare environments.

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Providing Awareness of Elder's Situations of Care through a Context-Aware Notification Environment: A Preliminary Evaluation

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References 11 publications

Activity Inference for Ambient Intelligence Through Handling Artifacts in a Healthcare Environment

Activity Inference for Ambient Intelligence Through Handling Artifacts in a Healthcare Environment

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

A Review of Notifications Systems in Elder Care Environments

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