OPTIMAL AUTO-REMINDER-CALLING ALGORITHM FOR SELF-REPORTING TYPE SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM BY USING TELEPHONE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE

Jun Sasaki, Takuhide Kikuchi, Masanori Takagi, Keizo Yamada, Michiru Tanaka, Akiko Ogawa

2012

Abstract

An increasingly aging society is a significant problem in advanced countries. Safety monitoring is required for elderly people especially in a rural area. This paper describes a self-reporting type safety monitoring system by using telephone and the field experimental results in Iwate prefecture and Aomori Prefecture in Tohoku area of Japan. In this system, a user (an elderly person) makes a daily wellness call to the Iwate Prefecture Council of Social Welfare (IPCSW). The IPCSW staff calls the user to check his/her wellness if no wellness-report is received from the user. However, the system introduced a new work load to the IPCSW staff when many users forgot to make the call. Our project is to reduce the staff’s phone work load by an automatic wellness-report reminder call. In this paper, the daily reporting time of long-term using users is analyzed and a new algorithm to determine an optimal auto-calling scheduler for each user based on the analyzed results is proposed.

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Sasaki J., Kikuchi T., Takagi M., Yamada K., Tanaka M. and Ogawa A. (2012). OPTIMAL AUTO-REMINDER-CALLING ALGORITHM FOR SELF-REPORTING TYPE SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM BY USING TELEPHONE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2012) ISBN 978-989-8425-88-1, pages 362-365. DOI: 10.5220/0003762203620365


in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf12,
author={Jun Sasaki and Takuhide Kikuchi and Masanori Takagi and Keizo Yamada and Michiru Tanaka and Akiko Ogawa},
title={OPTIMAL AUTO-REMINDER-CALLING ALGORITHM FOR SELF-REPORTING TYPE SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM BY USING TELEPHONE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={362-365},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003762203620365},
isbn={978-989-8425-88-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2012)
TI - OPTIMAL AUTO-REMINDER-CALLING ALGORITHM FOR SELF-REPORTING TYPE SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM BY USING TELEPHONE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE
SN - 978-989-8425-88-1
AU - Sasaki J.
AU - Kikuchi T.
AU - Takagi M.
AU - Yamada K.
AU - Tanaka M.
AU - Ogawa A.
PY - 2012
SP - 362
EP - 365
DO - 10.5220/0003762203620365