HealthPal: An Intelligent Personal Medical Assistant for Supporting
the Self-Monitoring of Healthcare in the Ageing Society
Proceedings of UbiHealth 2006: The 4th International Workshop on
Ubiquitous Computing for Pervasive Healthcare Applications, (2006)Abstract
Abstract. In this paper we introduce HealthPal, an intelligent dialogue-based
mobile health monitoring system, which aims at supporting the elderly
people who lack IT skills into monitoring their health condition
on a daily basis, in their preferred environments and without relying
on the assistance of their caretakers. HealthPal is a software application
that we have designed in order to assist the ageing society take
care of their health related needs in an independent and autonomous
manner. The most innovative feature of the HealthPal system is the
dialogue-based application that it incorporates and which enables
the effective interaction between the system and the user even if
the latter has no technology skills at all. This paper discusses
the system architecture and usage scenarios, while commenting on
the expected social impact of the system on the ageing society in
general.