Author: bardram

The “Intelligent Context­Aware Systems for Healthcare, Wellness, and Assisted Living” (iCareNet for short) project was an EU funded Initial Training Network (ITN). iCareNet focused on healthcare, wellness, and assisted living (HWA) applications and made a decisive contribution towards solutions, leveraged through an interdisciplinary perspective ranging from sensing and sensor integration, to human-computer interaction and social factors involved in the deployment of context-aware applications.

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Maintaining social awareness of the working context of fellow co-workers is crucial to successful cooperation. For mobile, non co-located workers, however, this social awareness is hard to maintain. In the iHospital project we have developed the concept of Context-Based Workplace Awareness , which denotes how context-aware computing can be used to facilitate people with an awareness of the unfolding of work in a hospital.

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Over a long period, I have been investigating the relationship between usability and security. More specifically, I have investigated issues related to user authentication. The background for this research is observational studies on hospitals, which revealed that clinicians spend lots of time and effort on getting access to electronic medical systems . Continue reading “Security, Usability, and User Authentication”