Developing a wearable assistant for hospital ward rounds: An experience report

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4952 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 289-307

  Adamer, Kurt ^d   Bannach, David ^a   Klug, Tobias ^b   Lukowicz, Paul ^a   Sbodio, Marco Luca ^c   Tresman, Mimi ^e   Zinnen, Andreas ^b   Ziegert, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^d Steyr Hospital   (Austria)

^e Edna Pasher PhD and Associates   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; HOSPITALS; PERSONNEL;

HOSPITAL WARD ROUNDS; STAFF INTERVIEWS; WEARABLE ASSISTANTS; WORKPLACES;

WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

EID: 41549131198     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78731-0_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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