8th International Conference on Body Area Networks

Research Article

ROCHAS: Robotics and Cloud-assisted Healthcare System for Empty Nester

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253922,
        author={Min Chen and Yujun Ma and Sana Ullah and Wei Cai and Enmin Song},
        title={ROCHAS: Robotics and Cloud-assisted Healthcare System for Empty Nester},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Body Area Networks},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
        year={2013},
        month={10},
        keywords={cloud computing mobile cloud healthcare robotics body area networks},
        doi={10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253922}
    }
    
  • Min Chen
    Yujun Ma
    Sana Ullah
    Wei Cai
    Enmin Song
    Year: 2013
    ROCHAS: Robotics and Cloud-assisted Healthcare System for Empty Nester
    BODYNETS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253922
Min Chen1,*, Yujun Ma1, Sana Ullah2, Wei Cai3, Enmin Song1
  • 1: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • 2: King Saud University
  • 3: University of British Columbia
*Contact email: minchen2012@hust.edu.cn

Abstract

In recent years, provisioning of human-centric services through body area networks, robotics technology and cloud computing is continuously attracting extensive attention from both academia and industry. In this paper, we propose a novel robotics and cloud-assisted healthcare system (ROCHAS), which combines these three technologies to provide pervasive healthcare services and especially the mental healthcare for empty-nester who are typically old-aged, lonely and depressed. ROCHAS includes four major components, i.e., robotics-assisted health monitoring and healthcare services, wireless and wired networks, cloud-assisted healthcare system, and healthcare service supporting infrastructure.