Transcript GROUP AGENT
Group communication for healthcare workers designed in ServiceFrame Project 73, Marte Forthun AGENDA Scenarios from Trondheim University Hospital Context-aware information Design NEED FOR TECHNOLOGY AT THE HOSPITALS? • Care of the patient in focus • Technology needs to be a positive supply and mirrow the actual need FICTITIOUS DEPARTMENT Medical Department Stroke Unit G1 G2 G3 Heart Unit G4 G1 G2 G3 Kidney Unit G4 G1 G2 G3 G4 SCENARIO 1 FROM TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL – HELP WITH PATIENT Primary group – G1 Lise Location: Room 333 Presence: Busy with patient GroupSession: 1 Per Stroke Unit Primary group - G1 Help Patient Location: Room 331 Presence: Meeting GroupSession: 0 Ole Location: Room 338 Presence: Busy with patient GroupSession: 0 Interface on handheld terminal Lise Location: Room 333 Presence: Busy with patient GroupSession: 1 Kari Location: Room 337 Presence: Free GroupSession: 0 SCENARIO 1 FROM TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL – HELP WITH PATIENT Lise Kari Location: Room 333 Presence: Busy with patient GroupSession: 1 Location: Room 337 Presence: Free with patient Busy GroupSession: 1 0 Stroke Unit Primary group - G1 Help Patient Stroke Unit Primary group - G1 Able to help with patient in Room 333? Yes Interface on handheld terminals No SCENARIO 2 FROM TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL – EMERGENCY Per Location: Room 333 Presence: Emergency GroupSession: 1 Primary group - G1 Primary group - G1 Stroke Unit Stroke Unit Emergency EMERGENCY IN ROOM 333 Interface on the terminals The patient’s doctor Emergency team CONTEXT-AWARE INFORMATION ”Context is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An enitiy is a person, place or object that is considered relevant to the interaction between the user and an application, including the user and applications themselves” (Dey, June 1999) USE OF CONTEXT-AWARE INFORMATION IN THE HOSPITAL •Location: Indoor positioning – sensors •Calendar: User’s calendar, group calendar etc. •Sessions: Call sessions, instant message session, real-time sessions etc. •Role: Trained nurse, doctor etc. •Presence Types: ”Free”, ”Busy with patient”, ”Meeting”, ”Lunch”, ”Emergency”, ”Offline” GROUP AGENT SYSTEM GroupManager: Groupname, address, user’s group GroupAgent: Groupname, users, access to update GROUP AGENT UserSession: Real-time messaging, context-information USER AGENT USER AGENT SERVICE GroupService: Exist when user subscribe on group services GROUP SERVICE GroupSession: Updating user session with context information, routing of messages Administration: Administrative privileges Questions? PATS lab http://www.pats.no Report http://www.item.ntnu.no/lab/nettint1/activities.html