Experiences from real-world deployment of context-aware technologies in a hospital environment

  • Authors:

  • Jakob E. Bardram;Thomas R. Hansen;Martin Mogensen;Mads Soegaard

  • Affiliations:

  • Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus N, Denmark;Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus N, Denmark;Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus N, Denmark;Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus N, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • UbiComp'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Context-aware computing is a central concept in ubiquitous computing and many suggestions for context-aware technologies and applications have been proposed. There is, however, little evidence on how these concepts and technologies play out in a real-world setting. In this paper we describe and discuss our experiences from an ongoing deployment of a suite of context-aware technologies and applications in a hospital environment, including a context-awareness infrastructure, a location tracking system, and two context-aware applications running on interactive wall displays and mobile phones. Based on an analysis of the use of these systems, we observe that many of the ideas behind context-aware computing are valid, and that the context-aware applications are useful for clinicians in their work. By reflecting on the nature of the designed context-aware technologies, we present a model which states that the triggering of context-awareness actions depend upon the accuracy of the sensed context information, the degree to which you know which action to perform in a given situation, and the consequence of performing the action.