Activity recognition for context-aware hospital applications: Issues and opportunities for the deployment of pervasive networks

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 155-171

  Favela, Jesus ^a   Tentori, Monica ^a   Castro, Luis A ^a   Gonzalez, Victor M ^b   Moran, Elisa B ^a   Martínez García, Ana I ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity estimation; Context aware computing; Hospital activities; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTATION THEORY; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ACTIVITY ESTIMATION; ACTIVITY-AWARE APPLICATIONS; CONTEXT-AWARE COMPUTING; HOSPITAL ACTIVITIES;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 34548248134     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11036-007-0013-5     Document Type: Article

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