Horizontal versus vertical development of the HCI in the WardinHand project

Author

Ancona, M. ; Coscia, E. ; Rubattino, C. ; Megliola, M.

fYear

2003

fDate

24-26 April 2003

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

30

Abstract

WardinHand is an IT project of the European Community, dedicated to the management and support of the daily activity of doctors and nurses in a hospital unit. One of its peculiar features is that of bringing the patient data to the place-of-care with an ubiquitous approach, by using Pocket PCs connected in a WiFi LAN covering the wards of an hospital unit. The role of WardinHand HCI is discussed in this paper. We tested some kind of natural interfaces for improving user-computer interactions in uncomfortable situations (in sunny light and/or in noisy environments). Our first efforts have focused on speech-based input and application; handwriting recognition is available for free on Pocket PCs as a software input panel (SIP) component usable under the complete control of the user. We based our HCI on WEB technologies integrated with two small components dedicated to textual data input and remote speech recognition management, respectively.

Keywords

graphical user interfaces; handwritten character recognition; health care; mobile computing; notebook computers; speech-based user interfaces; wireless LAN; European Community; HCI; IT project; Pocket PC; WEB technologies; WardinHand project; WiFi LAN; daily activity; doctors; handwriting recognition; horizontal development; hospital unit; mobile computing; mobile workflow support; natural interfaces; noisy environments; nurses; place-of-care; remote speech recognition management; software input panel component; speech-based input; sunny light; textual data input; ubiquitous approach; uncomfortable situations; user-computer interactions; vertical development; wards; Application software; Handwriting recognition; Hospitals; Human computer interaction; Local area networks; Personal communication networks; Project management; Speech recognition; Testing; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 2003. 4th International IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7667-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2003.1222411

Filename

1222411