Design guidelines of a context-aware notification system for nursing

Author

Miyamae, Masakazu ; Naya, Futoshi ; Toriyama, Tomoji ; Kanai-Pak, Masako ; Kogure, Kiyoshi

Author_Institution

ATR Knowledge Sci. Labs., Kyoto

fYear

2008

fDate

Jan. 30 2008-Feb. 1 2008

Firstpage

156

Lastpage

159

Abstract

Providing helpful advice to nurses has great potential for decreasing medical errors. However, a notification without regard to their context may cause a medical error. To reveal the dependency between suitable information display methods and such parameters as nursing duties and the immediacy of advice, an experimental study with simulated patients was conducted in which 38 real nurses wearing an information display device on their wrists were asked to perform several nursing duties. Based on an analysis of questionnaires and the distribution of nurse response times after receiving the notification, we established guidelines for a context-aware notification system for nursing. By developing a system based on these guidelines, the system can safely display advice in a feasible and effective manner.

Keywords

health care; mobile computing; wearable computers; context-aware notification system; information display methods; nursing; Cities and towns; Computer errors; Displays; Guidelines; Hospitals; Laboratories; Medical services; Psychology; Wearable computers; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2008. PervasiveHealth 2008. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampere

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-15-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571057

Filename

4571057