In this study, we developed nursing care support system using Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) with wireless and barcode reader. Our goals were to minimize the cost of deployment, to maximize the ease of operation, and to adapt to existing features and tasks of nursing care. The success of achieving these objectives was evaluated from the case study results involving system training session an...

This paper is about a research project known as reGossip. reGossip is a network game about gossip and social status. The multi-modal network includes mobile phones, personal digital assistants, and desktop computing systems. The paper describes the interaction model, the game design and system design of reGossip, preliminary results and next steps. The primary research question is can an intera...

The telephone provides an easy-to-use, reliable and cheap computer interface. We review computer telephony applications for patient care, clinical research and medical education. We describe uses at our academic health sciences centre and discuss strengths and weaknesses of this technology. Until more sophisticated interfaces, for example personal digital assistants with wireless Internet acces...

Introduction With the arrival of the Internet, cheaper and more powerful computers, hand held communication devices [such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs)], and the ever-decreasing time taken for these technologies to enter everyday use, the world has truly entered the ‘Information Age’. During the 4 days of the conference, a total of 15 talks, spread over six sessions ad...

While much research in HCI has examined control design and layout on keyboards and other user devices such as personal digital assistants (PDA) not much research has been identified that looks at web-page button (control) design used in single-step navigation. This research proposes the development of differentiation characteristics to be used on web page control tools and seeks to test the eff...

Invisible and ubiquitous computing aims at defining environments where human beings can interact in an intuitive way with surrounding objects. Those objects, which can be personal digital assistants, electronic rings, doors or even clothes, offer embedded chips with computation power and communication facilities and are generally called artifacts. Because virtual electronic services are embodie...

The rapid expansion of mobile networks globally, coupled with the decreasing cost of mobile equipment [1], is allowing global health programs increasingly to utilize mobileand cloud-based technology in their efforts to target important challenges to public health. Our initial electronic data collection system employed personal digital assistants (PDAs) [2,3], but these proved to have significan...

The growing popularity of digital cellular phones and personal digital assistants (PDA) is setting new demands for Internet content producers. One problem with these devices is the small visual display. WWW pages are usually designed for traditional desktop computers and they are difficult to view with small displays. In this paper, a solution is presented that uses the audio capabilities of su...

Recordings involving cellular telephones or personal digital assistants (“PDAs”) are increasingly the source evidence in audio forensic examinations, compared to recordings originating with other devices such as hand-held digital recorders. On modern PDA cellular telephones recordings can be made either directly to the telephone or transmitted as voice mail messages. The current investigation f...

Intelligent software personal assistants are an active research area with the potential to revolutionize the way that human organizations operate, but there has been little research quantifying how they will impact organizational performance or how organizations will or should adapt in response. In this chapter we develop a computational model of the organization to evaluate the impact differen...