Home Healthcare

Enabling technology and user-centered systems

The Home Healthcare SITI project at Santa Anna IT Research Institute AB is carried out in collaboration with Computer Science and Medical Informatics at Linköping University and with SOCLAB/SITI Syd at Blekinge Institute of Technology. The project is funded by industry and The Knowledge Foundation (KK-Stiftelsen) through SITI, the Swedish IT Institute. Project leader at Santa Anna is professor Sture Hägglund and at BTH/Soclab professor Rune Gustavsson.

Objectives of the Home Healthcare project

The objective of the Home Healthcare project within the SITI e-Society program is to study and develop enabling technologies for new everyday IT-based systems from a human-centered perspective with an emphasis on internet-embedded residential and mobile services for the citizen, in particular distributed healthcare. Issues for scientific study in the project include methods for the design of intuitive interfaces for robust and reliable control of home appliances and information services, software architectures and tools for supporting internet-embedded home systems, and empirical studies of the situated interplay between technical solutions and use qualities.

Project activities:

• Status and symptom control. The activity develops technical solutions for convenient control of symptoms for patients at home, based on Anoto pens for entering data on paper directly through wireless connections to the ward. Field trials are currently performed with real patients in Linköping.
  Collaboration with Medical Informatics, Linköping University.
  Leili Lind, LiU / Ericsson AB, and dr Daniel Karlsson, project leader, et al.
• •Sustainable mobile services. Systems supporting mobile home healthcare teams can be developed and supervised both from the perspective of the central organization or alternatively from the careteam. A technical platform based on existing industrial standards has been developed and its use for monitoring distributed healthcare in realtime is demonstrated.
  Collaboration with SOCLAB, Blekinge Institute of Technology.
  Martin Fredriksson, prof Rune Gustavsson, et al.
• Ubiquitous computer interfaces for everywhere interaction. This activity demonstrates how data capture and registration can be implemented in a home environment, using things and appliances naturally occuring in the environment, and at the same time providing a high degree of interactivity.
  Collaboration with Computer Science, Linköping University.
  Magnus Bång LiU/Proxigo, Anders Larsson et al.

Partners: Anoto AB, Enovation AB, Ericsson AB, Gatespace AB, Landstinget i Östergötland , Nokia Home Communications, Proxigo AB, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Vodafone Sverige AB.

Home Healthcare project brief (pdf).