Human activity recognition in pervasive health-care: Supporting efficient remote collaboration

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 628-655

  Osmani, Venet ^a   Balasubramaniam, Sasitharan ^a   Botvich, Dmitri ^a  

^a Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Activity inference; Collaborative environments; Human activity recognition; Pervasive Computing; Pervasive health care; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HEALTH; HOSPITALS; NURSING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; ALLOCATION PROCESS; COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (CT); COST CUTTING MEASURES; ELSEVIER (CO); EMBEDDED DEVICES; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; IN ORDER; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LIFE EXPECTANCIES; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; QUALITY OF LIFE (QOL); REMOTE COLLABORATION; RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS; SELF-ORGANISATION; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS; VIRTUAL COLLABORATION; WORKING ENVIRONMENTS;

HEALTH CARE;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; COMMUNICATION; COSTS; DOCTORS; FORESTRY; HEALTH; HOSPITALS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL SURGICAL SUPPLIES; PATHOLOGY; PERSONNEL; SENSORS; SIMULATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 47949111330     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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