Multimodal Interface Design of Ubiquitous Smart Space in the Wellbeing Life-care Service Environment

Abstract

Since the Wellbeing Life-care service station with the Ubiquitous Computing Network (UCN) allows for wellbeing and healthcare systems to be used in the patients' living space environments, it is crucial to develop a life-care system that is equipped with both synchronous vital data transmission and interactive multimodal user interface. This study proposes the development of a Wellbeing Life-care service system with interactive multimodal interface system that uses smart objects, such as wellbeing life-care space 1and smart-table2, in the ubiquitous computing life. The major functions of this service system are the unrestricted vital data acquisition and its manipulation, as well as an interactive multimodal interface acquired by smart-table including the interactive visual, acoustic, smell and touch modality functions for the related user interface technologies. The smart station is designed for the life-care required users who are not accustomed to the current smart spaced community computing environment; an usability model was designed on the convenience of operating the services. Furthermore, a supporting service application was developed to the Point of Care System3 and was installed in this healthcare service system to provide the patient's health information to the doctor directly. This system assists in ubiquitously providing the users' health information to the medical agents or institutes as well as communicating with community users who are involved with Ubiquitous technology and UCN environments.