Research
Research Interest:
Next generation pervasive computing domains will be made up of an abundant of autonomous: processing, communicating and sensing devices. These may include personal digital assistants (PDA) wireless sensor networks (WSN) or of a medical patient centric importance, Body Area Networks (BAN). Before any data management or Information System task may be executed, the context or situation of the user and their environment needs to be taken into account. This large paradigm shift from centralised decision making networks to remote autonomy creates new challenges within the data management information quality community. In particular, how to collect, correlate and disseminate this new information pool in an intelligent manner to help support our medical decision support systems (DSS).
Key Terms:
Data/Information Management and Quality, Intelligent Ubiquitous Decision Support Systems, Pervasive Medical Environments and Body Area Networks (BAN)
Referred Publications:
O‘Donoghue, J. O‘Reilly, P., Sammon, D. and Herbert, J.: The Integration of Body Area Networks within Electronic Health Records: A Data Quality Necessity. The 7th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematic (ICOST), to appear 2009.
Fensli, R., Dale, J.G., O’Reilly, P., O’Donoghue, J., Sammon, D., Gundersen, T.: Towards Improved Healthcare Performance: Examining Technology Possibilities and Patient Satisfaction with Wireless Body Area Networks. In the Journal of Medical Systems, to appear 2009.
Heart, T., O’Reilly, P., Sammon, D., O’Donoghue, J.: Bottom Up or top down: A comparative analysis of EHR, Special Issue Innovation in Health Information Systems in the Journal of Systems and Information Technology (JOSIT), to appear 2009.
O'Donovan, T., O'Donoghue, J., Sreenan, C., O'Reilly, P., Sammon, D. and O'Connor, K.: A Context Aware Wireless Body Area Network (BAN), In proceedings of the Pervasive Health Conference 2009.
O’Donoghue J.: Pervasive Data Quality and its Impact on Health Care Provision, ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality, to appear 2009.
Herbert, J., O’Donoghue J. and Chen, X.: A Context-Sensitive Rule-based Architecture for a Smart Building Environment, International Journal of Smart Home, Vol.3, No. 1, ISSN 1975-4094, 2009.
Augusto, J. and O’Donoghue, J.: Context-Aware Agents (The 6Ws Architecture), In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, 2009.
O’Donoghue, J., Herbert J.: Bingchuan, Y.: Context-Aware Data Management within Smart Buildings, IEEE International Symposium on Smart Homes 2008 (SH’08), 2008.
Herbert J., O’Donoghue J. and Xiang, C.: A Context-Sensitive Rule-based Architecture for Smart Buildings, IEEE International Symposium on Smart Homes 2008 (SH’08), 2008.
O’Donoghue, J., Herbert, J., Sammon, D. and Barton, J.: Information Quality and Data Management within a Pervasive Medical Environment, International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ), 2008.
O’Donoghue, J., Herbert, J., Sammon, D. and O’Connor, K.: Quality-Based Real-Time Information Management System within a Medical Environment: The Case of Falls Assessment, In the proceedings of the European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME 2008), 2008.
O’Donoghue, J., Herbert, J. and Sammon D.: Patient Sensors: A Data Quality Perspective, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematic (ICOST), 2008.
O’Flynn, B., Angove, P., Barton, J., Gonzalez, A., O’Donoghue, J. and Herbert, J.: Wireless ECG - Biomonitor for Implementation for E-Health, In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks Research in Ireland (WiSen), 2007.
Angove, P., O’Flynn, B., Barton, J., Gonzalez, A., O’Mathuna, C., O’Donoghue, J., Min, S. and Herbert, J.: A Biomonitor Implementation for E-Health, In Proceedings of the forth IEEE pHealth conference, 2007.
Herbert, J. and O’Donoghue, J.: Mobile Agent Architecture Integration for a Wireless Sensor Medical Application, In Proceedings of First IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks (IA-WSN), 2006.
O’Donoghue, J. Herbert, J. and Fensli, R.: Sensor Validation within a Pervasive Medical Environment, In Proceedings of IEEE Sensors, South Korea, ISBN: 1-4244-0376-6, 2006.
O’Donoghue, J., Herbert, J. and Kennedy, R.: Data Consistency within a Pervasive Medical Environment, In Proceedings of IEEE Sensors, South Korea, ISBN: 1-4244-0376-6, 2006.
O’Sullivan, T., O’Donoghue, J., Herbert, J. and Studdert R.: CAMMD: Context Aware Mobile Medical Devices, International Journal of Universal Computer Science, Special Issue on Pervasive Health Management: New Challenges for Health Informatics, Volume 12, Issue 1, 45-59, 2006.
O’Flynn, B., Angove, P., Barton, J., Gonzalez, A., O’Donoghue, J. and Herbert, J.: Wireless Biomonitor for Ambient Assisted Living, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems (ICSES), 2006.
O’Donoghue, J. Herbert, J. and Stack, P.: Remote Non-Intrusive Patient Monitoring, In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematic (ICOST), 2006.
O’Donoghue, J. and Herbert, J.: An Intelligent Data Management Reasoning Model within a Wireless Patient Sensor Network, In Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence workshop (AITAmI'06), 2006.
O’Donoghue, J. and Herbert, J.: A QoS Data Management System within a Pervasive Medical Environment, In Proceedings of the Doctor Colloquium in conjunction with Pervasive 2006 International Conference, 2006.
O’Donoghue, J. and Herbert, J.: Profile Based Sensor Data Acquisition in a Ubiquitous Medical Environment, In Proceedings of UbiCare 2006 workshop in conjunction with IEEE PerCom, 2006.
O’Donoghue, J. and Herbert, J.: Data Management System: A Context Aware Architecture For Pervasive Patient Monitoring, In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematic (ICOST), 2005.
Barton, J., O’Flynn, B., Angove, P., Gonzalez, A., O’Donoghue, J. and Herbert, J.: Wireless Sensor Networks and Pervasive Patient Monitoring, In Proceedings of Information Technology & Telecommunications Annual Conference (IT&T), 2005.
O’Donoghue, J. and Creagh, J.: The Reservation of Static Resources in a Controlled Mobile Environment Using General Purpose Applications, In Proceedings of the HSC International Conference, 2004.
Miscellaneous:
The Nature & Scope of the Market for Immigrants Remittances from Ireland, including Mechanisms, Providers, Risks & Costs, compiled for the consumer panel of the Irish Financial Regulator, 2009.
Money Matters: plotting the smart future for financial services, Enterprise Ireland Magazine, 2008.
Thesis:
Ph.D. Thesis Title:
Context-Sensitive Quality Data Management for Pervasive Computing Environments.
Winner of the MIT 2008 Ballou/Pazer DQ/IQ Research Award, which recognises a PhD dissertation that demonstrates a significant contribution to the field of Information Quality (IQ).
M.Sc. Thesis Title:
The Reservation of Static Resources in a Controlled Mobile Environment
Research Projects:
Science Foundation Ireland Funded, National Access Program, NAP174
Title: A Medical Based Body Area Network for Falls Assessments
Description: Currently, when older people present themselves at the falls clinic as day patients or in-patients the Consultant Physicians in Geriatric Medicine can investigate changes in heart rate and blood pressure with changes in posture (within a controlled environment). Using the current method, older people are strapped on a tilted table and are wired to devices that are used for monitoring changes in heart rate and blood pressure (beat-to-beat) while the position of the table is changed and visual monitoring of position is recorded. This examination lasts for a maximum of 40 minutes only, is time consuming to setup and labour intensive (generally requiring 2 medical practitioners to conduct the examination activity). Furthermore, the frequency of such examinations is limited to 8 to 10 a month. The focus of this research project is to develop a more sophisticated technological device to conduct these examinations which would increase their frequency and would be less time consuming and more closely related to real life human mobility. All of which would provide a greater volume of real-time patient-specific data with new richness in terms of falls monitoring.
Science Foundation Ireland Funded, National Access Program, NAP19
Title: QoS Issues within a Medical environment using Wireless Sensor Networks
Description: There is a need to develop sophisticated Quality of Service (QoS) infrastructures to facilitate effective data management within real-world ubiquitous environments. The goal of this research project is to analyse how software agents may enforce our DMS (Data Management System) QoS rules using the Tyndall-BAN (Body Area Network). The primary advantage for introducing such a model within medical based environments include better patient care (management of patient records) validation of medical procedures and better real-time patient analysis, particularly patient care within the home.
