title: A wearable context aware system for ubiquitous healthcare.
abstract: Recent developments of information technologies are leading the advent of the era of ubiquitous healthcare, which means healthcare services at any time and at any places. The ubiquitous healthcare service needs a wearable system for more continual measurement of biological signals of a user, which gives information of the user from wearable sensors. In this paper, we propose a wearable context aware system for ubiquitous healthcare, and its systematic design process of a ubiquitous healthcare service. Some wearable sensor systems are introduced with Zigbee communication. We develop a context aware framework to send information from wearable sensors to healthcare service entities as a middleware to solve the interoperability problem between sensor makers and healthcare service providers. And, we propose a systematic process of design of ubiquitous healthcare services with the context aware framework. In order to show the feasibility of the proposed system, some application examples are given, which are applied to remote monitoring, and a self check service.
authors.affiliation: Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea. dongoh@etri.re.kr
authors.forename: Dong-Oh
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Hyung-Jik
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Eun-Jung
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Kyuchang
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Jeunwoo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D017156:Photoplethysmography / Q000295:instrumentation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012881:Skin Temperature; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*