真實環境中以人為中心之情境感知年長者健康照護系統

隨著老年人口的快速增加，越來越多國家逐漸重視老年福利政策的實行。然而，在健康照護人口不足的情況下，要讓每位年長者得到足夠的服務是困難的。為減輕社會人力與資源在老年健康照護上的負擔，我們提出一個非侵入式之情境感知健康照護系統。藉由多模感測器偵測年長者行為並觀察長時間行為改變，照護者就算無法隨時在年長者身邊仍能掌握他們的健康狀態。本論文之特色在於，不同於以往大部分進行健康照護的研究，除了在資訊工程理論上的探討，跨領域的結合包含質性研究的分析亦被納入考量。為求讓所提出的照護系統能真正符合使用者需求以及適合被放入真實環境中。本論文之貢獻主要有三項：首先，對於真實環境(本論文中為台大醫院9A、9C護理站)進行需求分析並收集跨領域研究面臨的困難。其次，由於在醫院中建立複雜之情境感知環境是非常困難的。直至目前，台灣僅少數研究達成在醫院中進行情境感知相關的研究。如何在醫院中建立非侵入式之多元情境感知系統，亦為本論文之貢獻之一。第三則是基於行為辨識結果所採取的應用服務目前已有一套雛型，藉由訪談我們得知年長者對服務及情境感知系統的看法，這些意見將被納入系統改進方向。本研究為利用多模感測器進行情境感知並實現在醫院中的里程碑。期待如此科技與照護的結合不但能提供醫療照護者與年長者有用的幫助，更能激發跨領域健康照護工作者未來更多合作的可能。

關鍵字

普及健康照護；情境感知；行為辨識；多模感測器結合

並列摘要

Due to the rapid growth of the aging population, numerous countries have been attaching importance to establishing the well-being of the elderly. However, shortage of qualified caregivers makes it difficult to serve prompt care to elderly people. To alleviate the possible social costs associated with manpower and physical resources, we propose a context-aware healthcare system which makes use of multi-modal and un-obtrusive sensing technology meanwhile taking human feeling into account. By inconspicuously and automatically monitor the health status of the elderly, caregivers can get hold of the behavior changes even the elderly is not under caregivers’ supervision. Distinctively, rather than focusing on technological research purely, we take multidiscipline ideas into account to make our healthcare system more human-centric and practical in use. The main contribution of this thesis is three-fold. Firstly, we conduct qualitative research in National Taiwan University Hospital and summarize the difficulties and expectations of healthcare workers which can be used as the goal of healthcare assistance system. Secondly, novel way to utilize non-obtrusive sensing and context- aware technologies for detecting diversity situations in the real-world environment is present. Thirdly, since proposed healthcare system has been deployed in the National Taiwan University Hospital, the extensible fashion of proposed system makes it possible to involve other healthcare applications to be collaborated in the hospital.

並列關鍵字

Pervasive healthcare ； real-world healthcare ； context-aware ； situation awareness ； multi-modal sensor fusion

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