Evaluation of ITS: opportunities and challenges in the era of new pervasive technology

2016 ◽  
pp. 215-231
Author(s):  
Grant-Muller ◽  
Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Pervasive Technology

Ambient and pervasive technology

interactions ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 26-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne M. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Pervasive Technology

Analysis of Older Users’ Perceived Requests and Opportunities with Technologies

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Feli Gonzalez ◽  
David Facal ◽  
Ana Belen Navarro ◽  
Arjan Geven ◽  
Manfred Tscheligi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Active Aging ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
Pervasive Technology ◽  
Cognitive Assistance ◽  
Older Users ◽  
Elderly Users ◽  
The Way

The HERMES Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging project proposes an integrated approach to cognitive assistance, promoting the autonomy of elderly users through pervasive technology. This work aims to describe elderly people’s opinions when they are presented scenarios developed in this project. Two focus groups were organized in Austria and Spain with a view to collecting their impressions about the way in which the technological device can cover their needs; complementarily, a second session was conducted including a quantitative questionnaire. Although some participants were reluctant to use the technology, they welcomed some functionalities of the HERMES system and they considered that using them can help them to become familiar with them. Usefulness, usability, and use of real-life information for functionalities such as cognitive games are considered to be key areas of the project. This evaluation has provided the developers of the system with meaningful information to improve it and it guarantees that the system addresses elderly people’s needs.

scholarly journals An Investigation into the Use of Pervasive Wireless Technologies to Support Diabetes Self-Care

2012 ◽  
pp. 1211-1226
Author(s):  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe ◽  
Indrit Troshani ◽  
Steve Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Wireless Technologies ◽  
Pervasive Technology ◽  
Technology Solution

Diabetes is one of the leading chronic diseases affecting Australians and its prevalence continues to rise. The goal of this study is to investigate the application of a pervasive technology solution developed by INET in the form of a wireless enabled mobile phone to facilitate superior diabetes self-care.

From computers to ubiquitous computing by 2010: health care

2008 ◽  
Vol 366 (1881) ◽  
pp. 3805-3811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omer Aziz ◽  
Benny Lo ◽  
Julien Pansiot ◽  
Louis Atallah ◽  
Guang-Zhong Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Data Transfer ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
World Health ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Western World ◽  
Pervasive Technology

Over the past decade, miniaturization and cost reduction in semiconductors have led to computers smaller in size than a pinhead with powerful processing abilities that are affordable enough to be disposable. Similar advances in wireless communication, sensor design and energy storage have meant that the concept of a truly pervasive ‘wireless sensor network’, used to monitor environments and objects within them, has become a reality. The need for a wireless sensor network designed specifically for human body monitoring has led to the development of wireless ‘body sensor network’ (BSN) platforms composed of tiny integrated microsensors with on-board processing and wireless data transfer capability. The ubiquitous computing abilities of BSNs offer the prospect of continuous monitoring of human health in any environment, be it home, hospital, outdoors or the workplace. This pervasive technology comes at a time when Western world health care costs have sharply risen, reflected by increasing expenditure on health care as a proportion of gross domestic product over the last 20 years. Drivers of this rise include an ageing post ‘baby boom’ population, higher incidence of chronic disease and the need for earlier diagnosis. This paper outlines the role of pervasive health care technologies in providing more efficient health care.

A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective for Pervasive Technology

2017 ◽  
pp. 198-220
Author(s):  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe ◽  
Indrit Troshani ◽  
Steve Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Gestational Diabetes ◽  
Transaction Cost ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Transaction Cost Economics ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Cost Assessment ◽  
True Cost ◽  
Transactions Cost ◽  
Pervasive Technology

Numerous mobile technology solutions are being developed and implemented today to address a myriad of healthcare problems. However, it remains unclear what the true cost/benefit of these solutions is and who benefits from them. To investigate this we apply a transaction cost economics framework to a pervasive mobile solution that has been designed and developed to enhance diabetes self-care. Diabetes is one of the leading chronic diseases and its prevalence continues to rise. The solution examined in this paper relies on pervasive wireless technology and is designed to facilitate the effective management of diabetes in the context of gestational diabetes, a conditions that affects up to 8% of pregnant women. A transactions cost assessment of this solution is provided.

Analysis of Older Users’ Perceived Requests and Opportunities with Technologies

2014 ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Feli Gonzalez ◽  
David Facal ◽  
Ana Belen Navarro ◽  
Arjan Geven ◽  
Manfred Tscheligi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Active Aging ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
Pervasive Technology ◽  
Cognitive Assistance ◽  
Older Users ◽  
Elderly Users ◽  
The Way

The HERMES Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging project proposes an integrated approach to cognitive assistance, promoting the autonomy of elderly users through pervasive technology. This work aims to describe elderly people’s opinions when they are presented scenarios developed in this project. Two focus groups were organized in Austria and Spain with a view to collecting their impressions about the way in which the technological device can cover their needs; complementarily, a second session was conducted including a quantitative questionnaire. Although some participants were reluctant to use the technology, they welcomed some functionalities of the HERMES system and they considered that using them can help them to become familiar with them. Usefulness, usability, and use of real-life information for functionalities such as cognitive games are considered to be key areas of the project. This evaluation has provided the developers of the system with meaningful information to improve it and it guarantees that the system addresses elderly people’s needs.

A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective for Pervasive Technology

2016 ◽  
pp. 14-43
Author(s):  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe ◽  
Indrit Troshani ◽  
Steve Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Gestational Diabetes ◽  
Transaction Cost ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Transaction Cost Economics ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Cost Assessment ◽  
True Cost ◽  
Transactions Cost ◽  
Pervasive Technology

Numerous mobile technology solutions are being developed and implemented today to address a myriad of healthcare problems. However, it remains unclear what the true cost/benefit of these solutions is and who benefits from them. To investigate this we apply a transaction cost economics framework to a pervasive mobile solution that has been designed and developed to enhance diabetes self-care. Diabetes is one of the leading chronic diseases and its prevalence continues to rise. The solution examined in this paper relies on pervasive wireless technology and is designed to facilitate the effective management of diabetes in the context of gestational diabetes, a conditions that affects up to 8% of pregnant women. A transactions cost assessment of this solution is provided.

From General Services to Pervasive and Sensitive Services

2019 ◽  
pp. 1152-1164
Author(s):  
Mario Vega-Barbas ◽  
Iván Pau ◽  
Fernando Seoane
Keyword(s):  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Pervasive Technology ◽  
Enabling Technologies ◽  
Personalized Services ◽  
Ict Service ◽  
Comprehensive Manner

Ubiquitous computing and pervasive technology represent enabling technologies which have conditioned the evolution of the current information society. These ICT are transforming society and particularly changing the interfacing methods between services and user as well as their expectations from services. Such changes are related to arising of new kind of pervasive and sensitive service such as new healthcare and wellbeing personalized services. In this chapter, these services are defined in a comprehensive manner. This sense, sensitive services refers to new IS services that manage data that is not only based on the physical disposition of the user in regards to the environment but also related to more personal aspects. On its part, pervasive services are those developed by using pervasive technology and therefore can be defined as a delocalized and persistent ICT service. These definitions will be supported by an analysis of the evolution of services of the information society both from a socio-economic and industrial focus.

Understanding the Advantages of Mobile Solutions for Chronic Disease Management

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe ◽  
Arthur Tatnall ◽  
Steve Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Disease Management ◽  
Chronic Disease Management ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Pervasive Technology ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Technology Solution

In an environment of escalating healthcare costs, chronic disease management is particularly challenging, since, by definition such diseases have no foreseeable cure and if poorly managed typically lead to further, complicated secondary health issues, which ultimately only serve to exacerbate cost. Diabetes is one of the leading chronic diseases and its prevalence continues to rise exponentially. Thus it behooves all to focus on solutions that can result in superior management of this disease. Hence, this article presents findings from a longitudinal exploratory case study that examined the application of a pervasive technology solution; a mobile phone, to provide superior diabetes self-care. Notably, the benefits of a pervasive technology solution for supporting superior self-care in the context of chronic disease are made especially apparent when viewed through the rich lens of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and thus the paper underscores the importance of using ANT in such contexts to facilitate a deeper understanding of all potential advantages.

Intra-Family Mediated Awareness

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Vassilis-Javed Khan ◽  
Panos Markopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Web Surveys ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Pervasive Technology ◽  
Communication Needs ◽  
Peripheral Awareness ◽  
Intra Family

The research presented examines how pervasive technology can support intra-family communication, supporting existing practices and complimenting them by addressing communication needs currently unmet by current communication media like mobile phones, social networking systems, and so forth. Specifically the investigation focused on busy families, understood here to be families with two working parents and at least one child sharing the same roof. The class of technologies the authors consider are awareness systems, defined as communication systems that support individuals to maintain, with low effort, a peripheral awareness of each other’s activities and whereabouts. This research combined a variety of research methods including interviews, web surveys, experience sampling, and field testing of functional prototypes of mobile awareness systems. It also involved the development of several applications, which were either seen as research tools in support of the methods applied or as prototypes of awareness systems that embody some of the envisioned characteristics of this emerging class of technologies. The contribution of this research is along two main dimensions. First in identifying intra-family communication needs that drive the adoption of awareness systems and second in providing directions for the design of such systems.

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