Title :
Lifestyle improvement support system using context
Author :
Suzuki, Tomohiro ; Inoue, Masahiro
Author_Institution :
Shibaura Inst. of Technol., Saitama, Japan
Abstract :
Recently, a healthcare system utilizing electronic technology is attracting attention in the world. People are becoming increasingly conscious about health. Current healthcare services increase health awareness by providing information, but don´t utilize the information. Moreover, medical service has problem of lacking the concept of prevention. For those problems, this research proposes a lifestyle improvement support system which shows user how to use advices. At the time of shopping and cooking, the system provides advices that match user´s context. By using the context, the system provides proper advices. This research built and evaluated a simulation system. The research evaluated whether the content of advices was utilized by the user, and whether the system provides advices timely. As a result of the evaluation, the system is provides advices at timing to use.
Keywords :
biomedical electronics; health care; medical diagnostic computing; user interfaces; cooking; electronic technology; healthcare system; lifestyle improvement support system; match user context; medical service; shopping; user interface; Cancer; Context; Diseases; Materials; Timing; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics (ISCE), 2011 IEEE 15th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-843-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISCE.2011.5973849