E-servant: an intelligent, programmable system to support and integrate assisted living technologies

The ‘E-servant’, a programmable system to control and manage assistive technologies, telehealth and telecare devices in a home environment is presented. The E-servant is programmed using a simple graphical interface that allows the user to build a dialogue in the form of a production rule system, wh...

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Veröffentlicht in:Healthcare technology letters Jg. 1; H. 2; S. 64 - 67
Hauptverfasser: Picking, Richard, Grout, Vic, Casas, Roberto, Blasco, Ruben
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: England The Institution of Engineering and Technology 01.06.2014
Schlagworte:
assisted living
assisted living technologies
central management system
cognition
daily living
e‐servant
graphical interface
graphical user interfaces
home environment
integrated support environment
intelligent programmable system
knowledge based systems
older patients
patient‐initiated event
personalised user interface
production rule system
technology‐initiated event
telecare devices
telehealth
telemedicine
telemedicine
telecare devices
older patients
graphical user interfaces
cognition
personalised user interface
central management system
assisted living technologies
assisted living
home environment
graphical interface
technology-initiated event
e-servant
knowledge based systems
telehealth
production rule system
patient-initiated event
daily living
integrated support environment
intelligent programmable system
ISSN:2053-3713, 2053-3713
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Zusammenfassung:The ‘E-servant’, a programmable system to control and manage assistive technologies, telehealth and telecare devices in a home environment is presented. The E-servant is programmed using a simple graphical interface that allows the user to build a dialogue in the form of a production rule system, which is triggered by a patient- or technology-initiated event. The patient interacts with the system through a personalised user interface to reach their goal of completing a task. These tasks, which the authors call ‘scenarios’, can be designed for users of different abilities (cognitive and/or physical). They can also be given priority levels, for example if a potential emergency situation arises in the patient's home, a scenario associated with the sensing of this event takes highest priority. The research presented in this Letter outlines the E-servant, its programming tool and reports its evaluation in living laboratory settings. The results suggest that it can be used as a central management system for supporting an integrated support environment for facilitating healthcare and activities of daily living, especially for older patients.
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ISSN:2053-3713
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DOI:10.1049/htl.2014.0052