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Experiences from Real-World Deployment of Context-Aware Technologies in a Hospital Environment

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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.

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  1. Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aabogade 34, 8200, Aarhus N, Denmark

    Jakob E. Bardram, Thomas R. Hansen, Martin Mogensen & Mads Soegaard

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  1. Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, 92697-3440, Irvine, CA, USA

    Paul Dourish

  2. Computing Department, Lancaster University, InfoLab 2, South Drive, LA1 4WA, Lancaster, UK

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Bardram, J.E., Hansen, T.R., Mogensen, M., Soegaard, M. (2006). Experiences from Real-World Deployment of Context-Aware Technologies in a Hospital Environment. In: Dourish, P., Friday, A. (eds) UbiComp 2006: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4206. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11853565_22

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