The future of ubiquitous computing on campus
Communications of the ACM
Charting past, present, and future research in ubiquitous computing
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction in the new millennium, Part 1
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
A finger on the pulse: temporal rhythms and information seeking in medical work
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Activity and Location Recognition Using Wearable Sensors
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Using Logic Programming to Detect Activities in Pervasive Healthcare
ICLP '02 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Logic Programming
Pattern Classification (2nd Edition)
Pattern Classification (2nd Edition)
Applications of context-aware computing in hospital work: examples and design principles
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
"Constant, constant, multi-tasking craziness": managing multiple working spheres
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Inferring Activities from Interactions with Objects
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Predicting human interruptibility with sensors
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Bluetooth-based Indoor Proximity Sensing for Nursing Context Awareness
ISWC '05 Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Context as a dynamic construct
Human-Computer Interaction
Supporting the management of multiple activities in mobile collaborative working environments
CRIWG'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Groupware: design, implementation, and use
Practical metropolitan-scale positioning for GSM phones
UbiComp'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Context-aware systems: A literature review and classification
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Activity Inference through Sequence Alignment
LoCA '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness
Mobile Shared Workspaces to Support Construction Inspection Activities
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Collaborative Decision Making: Perspectives and Challenges
Experiencing NFC-based touch for home healthcare
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
A Novel Approach for Creating Activity-Aware Applications in a Hospital Environment
INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part II
Understanding and supporting lightweight communication in hospital work
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Towards a reference architecture for the design of mobile shared workspaces
Future Generation Computer Systems
Abnormality detection for improving elder's daily life independent
ICOST'10 Proceedings of the Aging friendly technology for health and independence, and 8th international conference on Smart homes and health telematics
Activity analysis: applying activity theory to analyze complex work in hospitals
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Semi-Markov conditional random fields for accelerometer-based activity recognition
Applied Intelligence
An infrastructure for smart hospitals
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Activity recognition for emergency care using RFID
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Body Area Networks
Applications of mobile activity recognition
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Affective and cognitive design for mass personalization: status and prospect
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
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Hospitals are convenient settings for the deployment of context-aware applications. The information needs of hospital workers are highly dependent on contextual variables, such as location, role and activity. While some of these parameters can be easily determined, others, such as activity are much more complex to estimate. This paper describes an approach to estimate the activity being performed by hospital workers. The approach is based on information gathered from a workplace study conducted in a hospital, in which 196 h of detailed observation of hospital workers was recorded. Contextual information, such as the location of hospital workers, artifacts being used, the people with whom they collaborate and the time of the day, is used to train a back propagation neural network to estimate hospital workers activities. The activities estimated include clinical case assessment, patient care, preparation, information management, coordination and classes and certification. The results indicate that the user activity can be correctly estimated 75% of the time (on average) which is good enough for several applications. We discuss how these results can be used in the design of activity-aware applications, arguing that recent advances in pervasive and networking technologies hold great promises for the deployment of such applications.