Monitoring behavioral patterns in hospitals through activity-aware computing

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2008, PervasiveHealth

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 173-176

  Tentori, Monica ^a   Favela, Jesus ^a  

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

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Activity aware computing; Behavioral activities patterns; Hospitals

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS; NURSING; PATIENT MONITORING; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

ACTIVITY MONITORING; ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; ACTIVITY-AWARE COMPUTING; BEHAVIORAL ACTIVITIES PATTERNS; BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; CELL PHONES; HOSPITAL NURSES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; SYSTEM MONITORING;

HEALTH;

EID: 52149088126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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