Context-aware mobile communication in hospitals

Muñoz, Miguel A.; Rodríguez, Marcela D.; Favela, Jesús; Martínez-García, Ana I.; González, Víctor

doi:10.1109/mc.2003.1231193

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“…The concept of the contextual support attribute is taken from two approaches in the literature: one is the context-aware retrieval (CAR) approach, which retrieves contextaware information pertinent to the user"s current physical location, device, application and organisational context (role, activity, shared process) (Brown & Jones, 2001;Chanana et al, 2004;Kirsch-Pinheiro, 2005); and the other is the ambient computing intelligent environment (AmI) approach, which executes contextaware distributed tasks (Munoz et al, 2003;Murthy & Krishnamurthy, 2005).…”

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Supporting decision making process with “ideal” software agents – What do business executives want?

Duan

Ong

et al. 2012

Expert Systems with Applications

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According to H. Simon"s (1977) decision making theory, intelligence is the first and most important phase in the decision making process. With the escalation of information resources available to business executives, it is becoming imperative to explore the potential and challenges of using agent-based systems to support the intelligence phase of decision-making. This research examines UK executives" perceptions of using agentbased support systems and the criteria for design and development of their "ideal" intelligent software agents.The study adopted an inductive approach using focus groups to generate a preliminary set of design criteria of "ideal" agents. It then followed a deductive approach using semi-structured interviews to validate and enhance the criteria. This qualitative research has generated unique insights into executives" perceptions of the design and use of agent-based support systems. The systemic content analysis of qualitative data led to the proposal and validation of design criteria at three levels. The findings revealed the most desirable criteria for agent based support systems from the end users" point view. The design criteria can be used not only to guide intelligent agent system design but also system evaluation.

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Section: Adaptability Designmentioning

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Supporting decision making process with “ideal” software agents – What do business executives want?

Duan

Ong

et al. 2012

Expert Systems with Applications

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“…For example, the 'Intelligent Hospital' application [18] uses location awareness to enable video communication to follow clinicians around inside a hospital, and others have been adding context-awareness to the use of mobile technologies in hospitals [17,20] Far less research has, however, been done in the study of deployed context-aware infrastructures and applications -to date, most 'ubiquitous' computing experiments have been restricted to specific laboratories and buildings, or to specific research groups [6]. Consequently, little evidence exists on real-world usage of context-aware technologies.…”

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“…Over the last decade, numerous context-aware applications have been reported for use in e.g. hospitals [3,20], shops [1], museums [14,21], tourism [2,9], zoological fieldwork [22], on universities [8,15], conferences [11,10], and offices [24]. Furthermore, numerous infrastructures and application frameworks have been proposed to enable the easy development of context-aware applications, each having different technological approaches and application focuses.…”

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Experiences from Real-World Deployment of Context-Aware Technologies in a Hospital Environment

Bardram

Hansen

Mogensen

et al. 2006

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Context-aware computing is a central concept in ubiquitous computing and many suggestions for context-aware technologies and applications have been proposed. There is, however, little evidence on how these concepts and technologies play out in a real-world setting. In this paper we describe and discuss our experiences from an ongoing deployment of a suite of context-aware technologies and applications in a hospital environment, including a context-awareness infrastructure, a location tracking system, and two context-aware applications running on interactive wall displays and mobile phones. Based on an analysis of the use of these systems, we observe that many of the ideas behind context-aware computing are valid, and that the context-aware applications are useful for clinicians in their work. By reflecting on the nature of the designed context-aware technologies, we present a model which states that the triggering of context-awareness actions depend upon the accuracy of the sensed context information, the degree to which you know which action to perform in a given situation, and the consequence of performing the action.

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“…From an organizational perspective, this means that situated decision making models such as the garbage can [23] are more applicable to our context than traditional rational choice models [24]. Regarding the support to mobility, several collaborative solutions have already been proposed [25][26][27][28][29]. Although these proposals have shown useful to support specific collaborative activities, they were not designed to address emergency management.…”

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Evaluating a Mobile Emergency Response System

Sapateiro

Antunes

Zurita

et al. 2008

Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use

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Abstract. Existing information systems often lack support to crisis and emergency situations. In such scenarios, the involved actors often engage in ad hoc collaborations necessary to understand and respond to the emerging events. We propose a collaboration model and a prototype aiming to improve the consistency and effectiveness of emergent work activities. Our approach defends the requirement to construct shared situation awareness (SA). To support SA, we developed a collaborative artifact named situation matrixes (SM), which relates different situation dimensions (SD) of the crisis/emergency scenario. A method was also developed to construct and evaluate concrete SM and SD. This method was applied in two organizations' IT service desk teams, which often have to deal with emergency situations. The target organizations found our approach very relevant in organizing their response to emergencies.

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Context-aware mobile communication in hospitals

Cited by 165 publications

References 7 publications

Supporting decision making process with “ideal” software agents – What do business executives want?

Supporting decision making process with “ideal” software agents – What do business executives want?

Experiences from Real-World Deployment of Context-Aware Technologies in a Hospital Environment

Evaluating a Mobile Emergency Response System

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