2022 Volume 58 Issue 5 Pages 232-236
The purpose of this study is to develop a wearable nurse call that uses hand movements as input. We aim to find candidate gestures that do not overlap with patients' hand movements in their daily activities in order to suppress error transmission. First, we clarified the movements that inpatients frequently perform in their daily lives from a web questionnaire. Next, we investigated how similar the input gestures of multiple assumed wearable nurse calls were when healthy elderly participants acted out these frequent daily actions. As a result, it may be possible to improve the accuracy by devising a combination of circle and triangle gestures.
