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Opportunities for Pervasive Computing in Chronic Cancer Care

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Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2008)

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While changing from a predominantly terminal to an increasingly chronic condition, cancer is still a growing concern. Accompanying this change are new opportunities for technologies to support patients, their caregivers, and clinicians. In this paper, we present an in-depth study of cancer communities. From this exploration, we define and describe the concept of a personal cancer journey. We examine lessons and design opportunities across this journey for sensing and context-awareness and capture and access applications.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Bren School of ICS, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

    Gillian R. Hayes

  2. GVU Center & School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Gregory D. Abowd, Maria Ebling & Elizabeth D. Mynatt

  3. T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Research Hawthorne, NY, USA

    John S. Davis & Marion L. Blount

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Hayes, G.R., Abowd, G.D., Davis, J.S., Blount, M.L., Ebling, M., Mynatt, E.D. (2008). Opportunities for Pervasive Computing in Chronic Cancer Care. In: Indulska, J., Patterson, D.J., Rodden, T., Ott, M. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Pervasive 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79576-6_16

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