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What is Pervasive Computing

Chapter 21
Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care
It is the computing paradigm that proposes a proactive interaction between devices and environment with the goal of making one or more technologies transparent to the user.
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Pervasive Multiplatform Health Care Support
Álvaro Alvares de Carvalho César Sobrinho (Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil), Leandro Dias da Silva (Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil), Leonardo Melo de Medeiros (Federal Institute of Alagoas, Brazil & Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil), and Ana Cláudia de Brito Câmara (Estadual University of Health Sciences of Alagoas, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch021
Abstract
In recent years, there has been a great advancement in technology for wireless communication. This facilitates the availability of devices using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi that allows other devices to exchange information and actions. Consequently, the paradigm of pervasive computing is increasingly present in several areas assisting to conduct various types of activities. Healthcare is one of the important sectors that benefits from this paradigm. The clinical monitoring associated with the control of Electronic Health Record from patients has the potential to offer better care for their health and improve their everyday life. This chapter presents a study about the use of the pervasive computing paradigm for health care through the development of a multiplatform tool for mobile devices.
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Chapter 21
Pervasive Multiplatform Health Care Support
It is the computing paradigm that proposes a proactive interaction between devices and environment with the goal of making one or more technologies transparent to the user.
Published in Chapter: Pervasive Multiplatform Health Care Support; From: Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care
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Chapter 19
Definition of a Pervasive Architecture for a Central Monitoring of Homecare Systems
It goes beyond the realm of personal computers. It is the idea that almost any device can be imbedded with chips to connect the device to an infinite network of other devices. The goal of pervasive computing, which combines current network technologies with wireless computing, voice recognition, Internet capability and artificial intelligence, is to create an environment where the connectivity of devices is embedded in such a way that the connectivity is unobtrusive and always available.
Published in Chapter: Definition of a Pervasive Architecture for a Central Monitoring of Homecare Systems; From: Handbook of Research on Trends in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Conditions
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Chapter 194
E-Collaboration in Organizations
Pervasive computing can be described as computing that is embedded into professional or personal environments to provide seamless computing anytime and anywhere.
Published in Chapter: E-Collaboration in Organizations; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 113
Latest Trends in Mobile Business
Pervasive computing or ubiquitous computing, as the name indicates, refers to the trend toward increasingly connected computing devices in the environment. The devices need not be computers, but very tiny (even invisible) and either mobile or embedded in almost any type of object, including cares, clothing, and appliances. The pervasive computing devices communicate through increasingly interconnected networks.
Published in Chapter: Latest Trends in Mobile Business; From: Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition
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Chapter 6
A Survey on the use of Emotions, Mood, and Personality in Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
Pervasive Computing is related with all the physical parts of our lives, the user may have not notion of the computing devices and details related with these physical parts.
Published in Chapter: A Survey on the use of Emotions, Mood, and Personality in Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments; From: Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: Trends and Perspectives
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Chapter 56
Digital Photography
Also called ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing refers to efforts to allow computers to disappear into the everyday environment by becoming ever-present and allowing natural interaction from users. The notion is that once computers become sufficiently integrated in the environment, users no longer “use a computer” but simply perform a task that happens to draw on computing power to accomplish the task. Cameraphones are sometimes seen as a step toward “smart” phones becoming successful pervasive computing devices that allow users to communicate via audio, video, still images, e-mail, and the Internet without having to stop and deal with issues such as connectivity and technical issues.
Published in Chapter: Digital Photography; From: Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
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Chapter 30
Can M-Commerce Benefit from Pervasive Computing?
A model of human-computer interaction in which information processing is seamlessly integrated into everyday objects and activities allowing the user to concentrate on the specific task rather than on details of interacting with the system.
Published in Chapter: Can M-Commerce Benefit from Pervasive Computing?; From: Handbook of Research on Telecommunications Planning and Management for Business
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Chapter 554
Smart Learning through Pervasive Computing Devices
Pervasive computing consists of inexpensive microprocessors embedded in everyday objects and environments. Characterized by being numerous, casually accessible, often invisible computing devices, frequently mobile or imbedded in the environment and connected to an increasingly ubiquitous network structure.
Published in Chapter: Smart Learning through Pervasive Computing Devices; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 491
Pervasive Wireless Sensor Networks
Also known as ubiquitous computing, this is the study of how computing can be integrated into the environment in a way that makes it easily accessible to users. It includes an emphasis on ease and naturalness of use, and unobtrusiveness is paramount.
Published in Chapter: Pervasive Wireless Sensor Networks; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 25
Business Decisions through Mobile Computing
This is a new dimension of personal computing that integrates mobile communication, ubiquitous embedded computer systems, consumer electronics, and the power of the Internet.
Published in Chapter: Business Decisions through Mobile Computing; From: Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition
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Chapter 28
Information Security at Large Public Displays
The concept of ‘Pervasive Computing’ is very similar to the one of Ubiquitous Computing. But while the term Ubiquitous Computing is mainly used in the academic domain, the notion of Pervasive Computing is mainly used in industry (see, e.g., Burkhardt et al., 2001 or Hansmann et al., 2003). The term was originally coined by IBM and refers to a shift in corporate computing systems (Friedewald et al., 2006). The only difference of both visions is their temporal scope. While Ubiquitous Computing envisions the omnipresent usage of computer-enhanced everyday objects, the focus of Pervasive Computing is on available respectively emerging technologies, like, e.g. mobile commerce applications or web-based business processes (Mattern, 2005).
Published in Chapter: Information Security at Large Public Displays; From: Handbook of Research on Social and Organizational Liabilities in Information Security
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Chapter 62
Personalized Redirection of Communication and Data
As a major evolutionary step, following on from two distinct earlier steps–distributed systems and mobile computing, it is concerned with universal access to communication and information services in an environment saturated with computing and communication capabilities, yet having those devices integrated into the environment such that they “disappear.”
Published in Chapter: Personalized Redirection of Communication and Data; From: Handbook of Research on Mobile Multimedia, Second Edition
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Chapter 65
OntoHealth: An Ontology Applied to Pervasive Hospital Environments
It aims to integrate the physical world with the virtual world and to change the current focus of the computing (process based) to the users' daily activities, creating an invisible computing to non-specialist eyes.
Published in Chapter: OntoHealth: An Ontology Applied to Pervasive Hospital Environments; From: Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing: Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts
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Chapter 30
Nutritional Monitoring and Advising Information System for Healthcare Support
Trend towards a computing environment in which users have access to information throughout the environment.
Published in Chapter: Nutritional Monitoring and Advising Information System for Healthcare Support; From: Handbook of Research on Developments in E-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives
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Chapter 10
Autonomic Computing
This is the trend toward increasingly ubiquitous connected computing devices in the environment and particularly, wireless technologies and the Internet. Pervasive computing devices are not broadly speaking personal computers as we tend to think of them, but rather small (often micro like)—electronic mobile embedded devices in almost any type of real world object, including cars, tools, household appliances, clothes, and so forth—all communicating through increasingly interconnected networks.
Published in Chapter: Autonomic Computing; From: Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
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Chapter 621
Usable M-Commerce Systems
An environment where computers have the capability to obtain information from the environment in which it is embedded and utilize it dynamically
Published in Chapter: Usable M-Commerce Systems; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 42
Enhancing User Experience with Context-Dependent Tasks in Smart Home
Refers to the use of computers in everyday life, including PDAs, smartphones, and other mobile devices. It also refers to computers contained in commonplace objects such as cars and appliances, and implies that people are unaware of their presence. In pervasive computing environment, all these devices communicate with each other over wireless networks without any interaction required by the user.
Published in Chapter: Enhancing User Experience with Context-Dependent Tasks in Smart Home; From: Handbook of Research on Mobile Multimedia, Second Edition
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Chapter 55
Balancing Business, Technology, and Global Expertise
This is a new dimension of personal computing that integrates mobile communication
Published in Chapter: Balancing Business, Technology, and Global Expertise; From: Handbook of Research in Mobile Business, Second Edition: Technical, Methodological and Social Perspectives
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Chapter 2
Secure Service Discovery
Pervasive computing is the evolution of distributed computing in which networked computing devices are integrated throughout the personal and work environments in a connected way, also referred to as ubiquitous computing.
Published in Chapter: Secure Service Discovery; From: Handbook of Research on Wireless Security
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Chapter 5
The Ubiquitous Grid
Pervasive computing aims to develop interaction paradigms, where information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities, allowing computers to vanish into the background.
Published in Chapter: The Ubiquitous Grid; From: Handbook of Research on Mobile Multimedia, Second Edition
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Chapter 675
Home UbiHealth
Refers to the embodiment of computers into physical objects connected into networks, that are consistently available, exchanging information, existing everywhere and operating whenever and wherever needed. The term is used interchangeably with Ubiquitous Computing or UbiComp.
Published in Chapter: Home UbiHealth; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 8
Identity Management for Wireless Service Access
Pervasive computing is the use of computing devices everywhere and these devices communicate with each other over wireless networks without any interactions required by the user.
Published in Chapter: Identity Management for Wireless Service Access; From: Handbook of Research on Wireless Security
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Chapter 44
Context-Awareness in Pervasive Environments
The vision conceived by Mark Weiser which consists of a world where computing is a part of our lives, being embedded in every day objects.
Published in Chapter: Context-Awareness in Pervasive Environments; From: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
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Chapter 25
Technologies and Services in Support of Virtual Workplaces
A technology environment that supports nomadic workers using wireless networking, context awareness, personalization, and human-device interaction.
Published in Chapter: Technologies and Services in Support of Virtual Workplaces; From: Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices
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Chapter 50
Individual and Group Cognitive-Based Therapy Support
An approach to software and human-computer interaction in particular that considers the development of computer applications and the associated information dissemination and interaction in a ubiquitously way, deeply integrated into everyday objects and activities.
Published in Chapter: Individual and Group Cognitive-Based Therapy Support; From: Handbook of Research on Developments in E-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives
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Chapter 145
Data Communications and E-Learning
Technology that has moved beyond the personal computer to everyday devices with embedded technology and connectivity. The goal of pervasive computing is to create an environment where the connectivity of devices is embedded in such a way that the connectivity is unobtrusive and always available.
Published in Chapter: Data Communications and E-Learning; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 14
Ambient Intelligence Environments
Pervasive Computing is related with all the physical parts of our lives, the user may have not notion of the computing devices and details related with these physical parts.
Published in Chapter: Ambient Intelligence Environments; From: Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
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Chapter 39
Research Policies for Information and Communication Technologies in Europe
Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities. In the course of ordinary activities someone “using” ubiquitous computing engages many computational devices and systems simultaneously, and may not necessarily even be aware that they are doing so. This model is usually considered an advancement from the desktop paradigm.
Published in Chapter: Research Policies for Information and Communication Technologies in Europe; From: Handbook of Research on Information Communication Technology Policy: Trends, Issues and Advancements
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Chapter 7
Service-Oriented Architectures for Pervasive Computing
“Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities. In the course of ordinary activities, someone “using” ubiquitous computing engages many computational devices and systems simultaneously, and may not necessarily even be aware that they are doing so”, as defined in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing)
Published in Chapter: Service-Oriented Architectures for Pervasive Computing; From: Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications
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Chapter 138
Technology in the Cities
A model of computing in which computer functions are integrated into everyday life, often in an invisible way.
Published in Chapter: Technology in the Cities; From: Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
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Chapter 56
Digital Photography
Also called ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing refers to efforts to allow computers to disappear into the everyday environment by becoming ever-present and allowing natural interaction from users. The notion is that once computers become sufficiently integrated in the environment, users no longer “use a computer” but simply perform a task that happens to draw on computing power to accomplish the task. Cameraphones are sometimes seen as a step toward “smart” phones becoming successful pervasive computing devices that allow users to communicate via audio, video, still images, e-mail, and the Internet without having to stop and deal with issues such as connectivity and technical issues.
Published in Chapter: Digital Photography; From: Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
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Chapter 514
Pervasive Mobile Health
Refers to an embedding microprocessor in device (mobile) to connect and communicate in the networks.
Published in Chapter: Pervasive Mobile Health; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 160
Deploying Pervasive Technologies
The next computing paradigm based on environments with information and communication technology—everywhere, for everyone, at all times.
Published in Chapter: Deploying Pervasive Technologies; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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