Multimodal notification framework for elderly and professional in a smart nursing home
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ORIGINAL PAPER
Multimodal notification framework for elderly and professional in a smart nursing home Mahmoud Ghorbel · Stéphane Betgé-Brezetz · Marie Pascale Dupont · Guy Bertrand Kamga · Sophie Piekarec · Juliette Reerink · Arnaud Vergnol
Received: 4 April 2012 / Accepted: 2 November 2012 © OpenInterface Association 2012
Abstract This article presents a multimodal notification framework allowing the optimal delivery and handling of multimedia requests and medical alerts in a nursing home. Multimodal notifications are automatically adapted to different criteria such as the device characteristics, capabilities and modalities, the emergency of the situation, the semantics of the notification, the recipient, etc. This framework is operated with various applications (e.g., health alert, medicine reminder, activity proposition) that have been supported by user requirement analysis done nearby an elderly population and healthcare professionals (e.g., nurses, caregivers). An acceptability study was performed to understand the users’ expectations regarding this new technology and modalities. This study was followed by the evaluation of proposed services with different real end-users in a pilot site. Results of these studies presented in this paper highlight the added value M. Ghorbel (B) · S. Betgé-Brezetz · M. P. Dupont · G. B. Kamga · S. Piekarec · A. Vergnol Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France, Researcher ALBLF Vx Route de villejust, 91620 Nozay, France e-mail: [email protected] S. Betgé-Brezetz e-mail: [email protected] M. P. Dupont e-mail: [email protected] G. B. Kamga e-mail: [email protected] S. Piekarec e-mail: [email protected] A. Vergnol e-mail: [email protected] J. Reerink University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille1, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France e-mail: [email protected]
of the proposed framework to enhance the quality of life of elderly people as well as the efficiency of the medical staff. Keywords Multimodal notification · Adaptive selection · Multimodal assistance · Intelligent nursing home · Acceptability · Evaluation · Reminder · Communication platform
1 Introduction Current statistics show that the longevity of the population has increased thanks to the social, economic and scientific development in the last period. The growth of the longevity coupled with the very few children being born directly implies a significant imbalance in the population pyramid; by 2050, there will be more people aged 60 and over than children under the age of 15 [1]. Based on such studies, experts warned that a major health care crisis will impend authorities (American) [2] due to the massive shortage of health care services and assistance for aged population to face their more and more complex health and social needs. In this direction, maintaining high quality of life, autonomy, wellbeing and social inclusion of the aged population as long as possible has become a wish of governments and health authoritie
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