Managing first response medical aids with an altruistic Web application

Stefano Ferretti; Silvia Mirri; Marco Roccetti; Claudio Sermenghi; Vito Conforti

3d International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

Managing first response medical aids with an altruistic Web application

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5946,
    author={Stefano Ferretti and Silvia Mirri and Marco Roccetti and Claudio Sermenghi and Vito Conforti},
    title={Managing first response medical aids with an altruistic Web application},
    proceedings={3d International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2009},
    month={8},
    keywords={Altruistic Web Pervasive Healthcare Semantic DataDissemination Profiling.},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5946}
}

Stefano Ferretti
Silvia Mirri
Marco Roccetti
Claudio Sermenghi
Vito Conforti
Year: 2009
Managing first response medical aids with an altruistic Web application
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5946

Stefano Ferretti¹^,*, Silvia Mirri¹^,*, Marco Roccetti¹^,*, Claudio Sermenghi¹^,*, Vito Conforti¹^,*

1: Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Mura Anteo Zamboni 7, 40127, Bologna, Italy

*Contact email: sferrett@cs.unibo.it, mirri@cs.unibo.it, roccetti@cs.unibo.it, sermengh@cs.unibo.it, vconfort@cs.unibo.it

Abstract

The use of the Web as a mean to express and satisfy users personal needs is widespread. However, this novel way to exploit online applications to give voice to any opinion has rapidly degenerated; now, the Web 2.0 is more and more recognized as a tool to foster “human egocentrism”. Nevertheless, many experts assert that contents produced and distributed through Web 2.0 technologies can be exploited also for “altruistic” purposes. In this paper, we show how contents created through a selfish use of the Web 2.0 can be recycled into “altruistic” applications for pervasive healthcare services and first response medical aids. The idea is that of trading the online advertisement of doctors and healthcare workers with their availability to be located and their agreement to intervene in case of emergency. The key to technically build such pervasive applications is based on an approach to profile patients, doctors and their location, employed together with communication protocols able to spread information over heterogeneous networks.

Keywords: Altruistic Web Pervasive Healthcare Semantic DataDissemination Profiling.

Published: 2009-08-04

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5946