Introduction
The motivating question
Interacting with computers have for sometime been the question about how to design good interfaces that fit a desktop PC with a screen, a keyboard and a mouse. However, with computers being more pervasive, resisting to stay on the desk, but moving into the environment, our pockets and requesting to be part of our daily lives, interacting with pervasive computers suddently becomes much more complicated. How do you design applications that fits in the pocket
or on a large display in a public room? Welcome to pervasive-interaction.org. |
Our work
We have worked with pervasive-interacting in a variarity of setting. One of them is in hospitals. We have looked at how information technology can support highly mobile, physical, distributed and collaborative work?
The work in hospitals today is characterized by being collaborative, distributed,
physical and mobile.
That is, it differs tremendously from the work done in an office. However,
the technology and the system used in hospitals today is the same as the
one used in offices. In three projects we are looking at how to build IT
systems that support mobile, physical, distributed and collaborative work.
In the projects we have worked with a lot of different technologies such as programming for mobile phones, Bluetooth, multimodal interaction, gesture recognition and speech recognition. By following the links to the left you can read more about the different projects, read some of our publications, see some concept videos and read about our experiences with the different technologies.
The project started January 2003 and continues until August 2006.
Projects
We have been working with a set of projects that address the challenges stated above.
Field study of cooperation and use of technology under hard constrains in a hospital
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Several field studies have been conducted with the focus on the two main scenarios: “interactive operating theatre” and “nomadic clinician”. Three different departments have been studied at two different hospitals. One of them had introduced the electronic patient record and the other one still used the paper record. |
The AWARE project
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The AWARE project started Marts 2003. The main focus in the beginning of the project has been on how to support awareness among clinicians working in a hospital. Field studies have provided valuable input to the project and several workshops with clinician have been carried out. A first version of a prototype running on advanced mobile phones has been developed and a new version is under development. |
Mixed Interaction Spaces
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Mixed Interaction Spaces is a new interaction concept where gestures done with the mobile phone is recognised and used to for instance natural interaction with large x-rays on mobile phones. |
The interactive operating theatre project
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This project was started August 2003 and the focus in this project is on how to support the surgeons’ interaction with technology within an operating theatre. Field studies and workshops have been conducted to identify possible constrains and needs within the setting. A first preliminary prototype has been developed of a simple “Electronic Speech Patient Record” that uses speech and gestures as input and responds with visual and oral output. |
Links
Centre for Pervasive Computing
[Pervasive Computing...]
Centre for Pervasive Healthcare
[Pervasive Healthcare...]
Centre for Interactive Spaces
[Interactive Spaces...]
Contact Information
Thomas Riisgaard Hansen
Centre for Pervasive Healthcare
Department of Computer Science
University of Aarhus
thomasr@daimi.au.dk
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~thomasr/
Editor: Thomas Riisgaard Hansen (web, email) - last updated Feb. 2006.