A Web-based home welfare and care services request system using a pen type image sensor

Author

Ogawa, Hidekuni ; Maki, Hiromichi ; Ninomiya, Ishio ; Yonezawa, Yoshiharu ; Sato, Haruhiko ; Caldwell, W. Morton

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Intellectual Syst., Hiroshima Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Jan. 2004

Firstpage

616

Lastpage

617

Abstract

In Japan, hospital or welfare office home helpers provide home welfare and care services, such as cooking, bathing, washing, cleaning and shopping, for the elderly. We have developed a Web-based home welfare and care services request system using wireless Internet mobile phones and Internet client computers; it employs a pen type image sensor for the elderly people to enter their handwritten care requests. The client computer sends the requests to the server computer in the home helper central office, and then the server computer automatically transfers them to the home helper´s mobile phone. This newly-developed home welfare and care services request system is easily operated by elderly persons.

Keywords

Internet telephony; client-server systems; geriatrics; handwritten character recognition; image processing; mobile radio; public administration; care services; character recognition; client computer; elderly people; handwritten care requests; home helpers; home welfare; pen type image sensor; server computer; wireless Internet mobile phone; Central office; Cleaning; Home computing; Hospitals; Image sensors; Mobile handsets; Senior citizens; Web and internet services; Web server; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. CCNC 2004. First IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8145-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2004.1286932

Filename

1286932