A Context-Aware Interactive Health Care System Based on Ontology and Fuzzy Inference.
In the present society, most families are double-income families, and as the long-term care is seriously short of manpower, it contributes to the rapid development of tele-homecare equipment, and the smart home care system gradually emerges, which assists the elderly or patients with chronic diseases in daily life. This study aims at interaction between persons under care and the system in various living spaces, as based on motion-sensing interaction, and the context-aware smart home care system is proposed. The system stores the required contexts in knowledge ontology, including the physiological information and environmental information of the person under care, as the database of decision. The motion-sensing device enables the person under care to interact with the system through gestures. By the inference mechanism of fuzzy theory, the system can offer advice and rapidly execute service, thus, implementing the EHA. In addition, the system is integrated with the functions of smart phone, tablet PC, and PC, in order that users can implement remote operation and share information regarding the person under care. The health care system constructed in this study enables the decision making system to probe into the health risk of each person under care; then, from the view of preventive medicine, and through a composing system and simulation experimentation, tracks the physiological trend of the person under care, and provides early warning service, thus, promoting smart home care.
Department of Information Management, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China, steve312kimo@thu.edu.tw.
Tzu-Chiang
TC
Chiang
Wen-Hua
WH
Liang
D001794:Blood Pressure; D001831:Body Temperature; D017143:Fuzzy Logic; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D018570:Risk Assessment