A location-based ubiquitous crowdsourcing approach for the emergency supply of oxygen cylinders

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Publication Date

1-1-2020

Abstract

© 2020, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature. Many people with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) are subjected to emergencies triggered by breathing difficulties. Oxygen therapy, administered from medical oxygen cylinders, can be used to relieve respiratory airways, and restore the supply of oxygen to the body’s vital organs. In this paper, we present a location-based ubiquitous crowdsourcing solution to enable COPD patients to request an emergency supply of oxygen cylinders. At the heart of the solution is a trusted platform that acts as a mediator for the ambient social interaction among a virtual and socially engaged community of requestors and suppliers. The geo-temporal data generated by this social interaction can be analyzed to uncover meaningful ambient environmental patterns. Our approach also uses image processing and computer vision techniques to help validate crowd responses. We discuss the details of the human-centric computer interaction design and its key features. We also elaborate on the challenges faced in the design and development of the solution and summarize the actions taken to address them.

ISSN

1617-4909

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Last Page

12

Disciplines

Computer Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences

Keywords

Ambient social interaction, Computer vision, Crisis management, Crowdsourcing, Healthcare information systems, Human-computer interaction, Ubiquitous mobile sensing

Scopus ID

85092137422

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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