MARIKA: A Mobile Assistance System for Supporting Home Care

Tobias Umblia, Albert Hein, Ilvio Bruder, Thomas Karopka

2009

Abstract

Documentation of care activities is a very time-consuming task of home healthcare, but necessary due to legal requirements. Automating the care documentation would relieve the nurses from writing it down by hand, resulting in more time for the patients. The MARIKA project presented in this paper is addressing this problem through the development of a system which assists the home care personnel by automatically recording care activities, and integrates with other systems involved in the care process. Technical approaches for two major building blocks of such a system are described: A hybrid, sensor-based activity recognition approach, and a mediator-based data and function integration approach.

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Umblia T., Hein A., Bruder I. and Karopka T. (2009). MARIKA: A Mobile Assistance System for Supporting Home Care . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mobilizing Health Information to Support Healthcare-related Knowledge Work - Volume 1: Workshop MobiHealthInf, (BIOSTEC 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-78-4, pages 69-77. DOI: 10.5220/0001815200690077


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@conference{workshop mobihealthinf09,
author={Tobias Umblia and Albert Hein and Ilvio Bruder and Thomas Karopka},
title={MARIKA: A Mobile Assistance System for Supporting Home Care},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mobilizing Health Information to Support Healthcare-related Knowledge Work - Volume 1: Workshop MobiHealthInf, (BIOSTEC 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={69-77},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001815200690077},
isbn={978-989-8111-78-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mobilizing Health Information to Support Healthcare-related Knowledge Work - Volume 1: Workshop MobiHealthInf, (BIOSTEC 2009)
TI - MARIKA: A Mobile Assistance System for Supporting Home Care
SN - 978-989-8111-78-4
AU - Umblia T.
AU - Hein A.
AU - Bruder I.
AU - Karopka T.
PY - 2009
SP - 69
EP - 77
DO - 10.5220/0001815200690077