Strategies to reduce interruptions from mobile communication systems in surgical wards

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 389-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terje Solvoll ◽  
Jeremiah Scholl
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Gastrointestinal Surgery ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Context Aware System ◽  
The University

We conducted interviews with two surgeons from the department of gastrointestinal surgery at the University Hospital of North Norway. The results confirmed that interruptions from mobile devices were a problem, especially in surgical theatres, outpatient wards, emergency wards and inpatient rooms. Users in hospitals, especially surgeons and physicians, need a better communication system. Our proposed system would intercept the signals from the existing communication system before they are sent out to the mobile devices. The signals would then be routed through a context-aware system, paired with context information and available rules defined by the doctor, which will decide what to do with the call/page. A single device which integrates both the pager and the phone system, and makes use of context information to control interruptions automatically yet allow the caller to decide whether to interrupt, would be highly appreciated by the users.

scholarly journals Energy Conservation in Mobile Devices and Applications: A Case for Context Parsing, Processing and Distribution in Clouds

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad Liaquat Kiani ◽  
Ashiq Anjum ◽  
Nik Bessis ◽  
Richard Hill ◽  
Michael Knappmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Processing Load ◽  
Context Processing ◽  
Collaborative Modelling ◽  
Significant Performance ◽  
Context Aware System ◽  
Distributed Infrastructure

Context information consumed and produced by the applications on mobile devices needs to be represented, disseminated, processed and consumed by numerous components in a context-aware system. Significant amounts of context consumption, production and processing takes place on mobile devices and there is limited or no support for collaborative modelling, persistence and processing between device-Cloud ecosystems. In this paper we propose an environment for context processing in a Cloud-based distributed infrastructure that offloads complex context processing from the applications on mobile devices. An experimental analysis of complexity based context-processing categories has been carried out to establish the processing-load boundary. The results demonstrate that the proposed collaborative infrastructure provides significant performance and energy conservation benefits for mobile devices and applications.

Savings And Costs Of A Picture Archiving And Communication System In The University Hospital Utrecht

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. T. H. Andriessen ◽  
B. M. ter Haar Romeny ◽  
F. H. Barneveld Binkhuysen ◽  
I. E. van der Horst-Bruinsma
Keyword(s):  
Communication System ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Picture Archiving ◽  
Picture Archiving And Communication ◽  
The University

scholarly journals The usage of mobile communication systems in the trucking industry

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
R Stephen Parker ◽  
John L Kent ◽  
Karl B Manrodt
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Satellite Communications ◽  
Trucking Industry ◽  
Mobile Communication Systems ◽  
Mobile Communication System ◽  
Decision Factors

This article reports the findings of a mobile communications survey mailed out to over 2,000 trucking firms. The findings indicate that 68% of respondents use some form of mobile communication system in their firm. Various types of mobile communication systems were reported, including two-way pagers, one-way pagers, cell phones, two-way radio, and satellite communications. Additionally, implementation decision factors for mobile communication systems were evaluated for both users and non-users of mobile communication systems.

Is Group-Awareness Context-Awareness?

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro ◽  
Carine Souveyet
Keyword(s):  
Context Awareness ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
System Behavior ◽  
Group Awareness ◽  
Awareness Information ◽  
Unified View ◽  
Context Aware System ◽  
Awareness Context

This article discusses the interest of emerging a unified view for group awareness and context information on groupware and context-aware systems. Group awareness corresponds to an important concept on Groupware applications, allowing individual users to be kept aware of group's activities and status. Context is defined by ubiquitous computing as any relevant information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. We assume that group awareness information should be considered as context information and handled as such. Group awareness information is often employed for decision making, contributing to users' activities and decisions, but it gives also an important clue about user's context, characterizing individual's actions regarding the group. As such, group awareness may be used for adaptation purposes, adapting the system behavior, the supplied content or its services. Besides, architectural concerns adopted on context-aware system should also be considered when developing new groupware applications that are more and more designed as context-aware systems.

Mobile Communication in Hospitals

2012 ◽  
pp. 287-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terje Solvoll
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Medical Errors ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Hospital Workers ◽  
Wireless Phones ◽  
Communication Methods

The work setting in hospitals is communication intensive and can lead to significant difficulties related to interruptions from co-workers. Physicians often need information fast, and any delay between the decision made and the action taken could cause medical errors. One suggested solution for this problem is to implement wireless phone systems. However, psychological theory and empirical evidence, both suggest that wireless phones have the potential of creating additional problems related to interruptions, compared to traditional paging systems. The fact that hospital workers prefer interruptive communication methods before non-interruptive methods, amplifies the risk of overloading people when phones are widely deployed. This challenge causes some hospital staff to resist the diffusion of wireless phones, and a key is how to handle the balance between increased availability, and increased interruptions. In this chapter, the authors present solutions based on context aware communication systems, aiming to reduce interruptions.

Context-Aware Framework for the Support of User Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 811 ◽  
pp. 602-607
Author(s):  
Hoon Jeong ◽  
Ha Na Do ◽  
Eui In Choi
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Wireless Network ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Current State ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
The Web

The development of mobile devices and the spread of wireless network help share and exchange information and resources more easily. Therefore users are able to use the information and service more free than previous wire network due to development of wireless network and device. In order to provide appropriate user services, it enables to recognize users current state, analyze the users profile like users tendency and preference, and draw the service answering the users request. Most existing frameworks, however, are not very suitable for mobile devices because they were proposed on the web-based. And other context information except location information among users context information is not much considered. Therefore, this paper proposed the context-aware framework, which provides more suitable services by using users context and profile.

scholarly journals Current Situation and Development Trend of Mobile Communication Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Jun
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mobile Communication System ◽  
The Development Trend

This paper introduces the development background of mobile communication and the development of mobilecommunication. It introduces the application principle, network structure, main technology, the advantages anddisadvantages of the three generations of mobile communication system respectively, and introduces the currentthird generation mobile communication system, including its technical support and research direction, analysis andcomparison of the European WCDMA system, the United States CDMA2000 system and China's TD-SCDMA systemtechnical characteristics. Finally, the development trend and prospect of future mobile communication system arediscussed.

Infrastructures for Development of Context-Aware Mobile Applications

2011 ◽  
pp. 1104-1118
Author(s):  
Hugo Feitosa de Figueirêdo ◽  
Tiago Eduardo da Silva ◽  
Anselmo Cardoso de Paiva ◽  
José Eustáquio Rangel de Queiroz ◽  
Cláudio De Souza Baptista
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Wireless Networking ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Context Model ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Communication Method ◽  
Context Aware System

Context-aware mobile applications are becoming popular, as a consequence of the technological advances in mobile devices, sensors and wireless networking. Nevertheless, developing a context-aware system involves several challenges. For example, what will be the contextual information, how to represent, acquire and process this information and how it will be used by the system. Some frameworks and middleware have been proposed in the literature to help programmers to overcome these challenges. Most of the proposed solutions, however, neither have an extensible ontology-based context model nor uses a communication method that allows a better use of the potentialities of the models of this kind.

Evaluating the Context Aware Browser

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Davide Menegon ◽  
Stefano Mizzaro ◽  
Elena Nazzi ◽  
Luca Vassena
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Reliable Tool ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Web Contents ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Context Aware System

The authors discuss the evaluation of highly interactive and novel context-aware system with a methodology based on a TREC-like benchmark. We take as a case study an application for Web content perusal by means of context-aware mobile devices, named Context-Aware Browser. In this application, starting from the representation of the user’s current context, queries are automatically constructed and used to retrieve the most relevant Web contents. Since several alternatives for query construction exist, it is important to compare their effectiveness, and to this aim we developed a TREC-like benchmark. We present our approach to early stage evaluation, describing our aims and the techniques we apply. The authors underline how, for the evaluation of context-aware retrieval systems, the benchmark methodology adopted can be an extensible and reliable tool.

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