Adaptive prompting based on Petri Net in a Smart medication system

Author

Tang, Lei ; Zhou, Xingshe ; Yu, Zhiwen ; Zhang, Daqing ; Ni, Hongbo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xi´´an, China

fYear

2010

fDate

March 29 2010-April 2 2010

Firstpage

328

Lastpage

333

Abstract

We conduct a study to determine when best to provide reminders by recognizing the interruption relations that occur in human behaviors. A model based on Petri Net to describe the execution of multiple activities is proposed. This approach aids the automatic analysis of activity interruption and supports adaptive prompting. We describe our experience in building a medication system that provides context-aware reminders for elder adults to take their medication. Experimental results show that our system can improve users´ medication adherence in an efficient and flexible way.

Keywords

Petri nets; geriatrics; medical computing; ubiquitous computing; Petri net; activity interruption automatic analysis; adaptive prompting; context aware reminder; elder adults medication intake; human behavior; smart medication system; Algorithm design and analysis; Character recognition; Computer science; Humans; Layout; Pervasive computing; Prototypes; Senior citizens; Telecommunications; Ubiquitous computing; Petri Net; adaptive prompting; medication; ubiquitous computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Mannheim

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6605-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6606-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOMW.2010.5470646

Filename

5470646