GeoHealth

Abstract

In this paper, we describe GeoHealth -a geographical information system prototype for home healthcare workers who during a normal workday have to attend clients and patients that are physically distributed over a large geographical area. Informed by field studies of work activities and interviews with the healthcare workers, we have designed an interactive location-based service for supporting distributed mobile collaboration. The prototype explores a representational approach to context-awareness and represents live contextual information about clients/patients, coworkers, current and scheduled work activities, and alarms adapted to the users' location. The prototype application is webbased and uses Google Maps, GPS positioning, and Web 2.0 technology to provide a lightweight dynamic and interactive representation of the work domain supporting distributed collaboration, communication, and peripheral awareness among nomadic workers.

Pervasive Computing in the Supermarket

“…Mobile tourist guides are typical examples of context-aware systems including the Lancaster GUIDE project (Cheverst et al, 2001) and the Lol@ guide (Pospischil et al, 2002). Other examples of context-aware systems include electronic patient records (Skov & Høegh, 2006), hospital applications (Bardram et al, 2003), healthcare workers (Christensen et al, 2007), museum guides (Lonsdale et al, 2005) and university guides (Griswold et al, 2004). Commercial context-aware applications are also starting to emerge and particularly GPS (Global Positioning System) guide technologies have had enormous success over the past years -perhaps due to their reduced prices, but also due to their simple yet powerful implementation of context-aware elements.…”