Wearable sensors for pervasive healthcare management

Daniel Olguin Olguin; Peter A. Gloor; Alex (Sandy) Pentland

3d International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

Wearable sensors for pervasive healthcare management

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6033,
    author={Daniel Olguin Olguin and Peter A. Gloor and Alex (Sandy) Pentland},
    title={Wearable sensors for pervasive healthcare management},
    proceedings={3d International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2009},
    month={8},
    keywords={Area measurement Biomedical monitoring Delay estimation Hospitals Humans Instruments Laboratories Medical services Speech Wearable sensors},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6033}
}

Daniel Olguin Olguin
Peter A. Gloor
Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Year: 2009
Wearable sensors for pervasive healthcare management
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6033

Daniel Olguin Olguin¹^,*, Peter A. Gloor²^,*, Alex (Sandy) Pentland¹^,*

1: Human Dynamics Group, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA 02139
2: Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA 02139

*Contact email: dolguin@media.mit.edu, pgloor@mit.edu, pentland@media.mit.edu

Abstract

We show that it is possible to identify individual personality traits and measure group performance in a Post-anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) using wearable sensors.We instrumented a group of 67 nurses working in the PACU of a Boston area hospital with sociometric badges capable of measuring physical activity, speech activity, face-to-face interaction, and physical proximity. Using the data collected with these sensors we were able to estimate the daily average length of stay (LOS) and number of delays.

Keywords: Area measurement Biomedical monitoring Delay estimation Hospitals Humans Instruments Laboratories Medical services Speech Wearable sensors

Published: 2009-08-04

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.6033