Title
Proxemic interactions in mobile devices to avoid the spreading of infections
Date Issued
12 October 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
IEEE Computer Society
Abstract
Currently, people's daily lives are affected by the pandemic produced by the COVID-19. One of the main problem is the quickly and easy spreading of the virus. Healthcare workers are affected by nosocomial infections (also called as hospital-acquired infections) that exist in workplaces and more specifically, from health care equipment. In practice, the use of technology is quite common in health care settings. However, due to the touchability of mobile digital devices, their use contributes to nosocomial infections, according to several studies. Some applications based on tracking people have been implemented in order to facilitate Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and preventing contamination of surfaces by people's hands. Notwithstanding, their use still presents limitations related to implementing applications to be used in some hospital environments, such as care rooms, laboratories, clinical workrooms. To overcome these limitations, we propose the use of interpersonal distances and proxemic dimensions (i.e., Distance, Identity, Location, Movement, and orientation- DILMO) for implementing HCI with mobile devices that reduces their touchability. The aim is to facilitate the development of mobile apps with proxemic HCI, supported in a proposed architecture, to stop spreading of nosocomial infection of COVID-19 and others. To show the usability and suitability of our proposal, we present two prototypes of apps for mobile devices as proof-of concept, using several combination of proxemic DILMO dimensions to model proxemic HCI that allow flexibility in interpersonal and devices people interactions.
Volume
2020-October
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85097305260
ISSN of the container
21619646
ISBN of the container
9781728197227
Conference
International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications: 16th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2020
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