A Virtual Research Environment to Support Remote Behaviour Monitoring from Data Collection to Analysis
Frank Krüger, Sebastian Bader, Albert Hein, Thomas Kirste · 2017
Virtual research environments (VRE) allow to collaboratively work on research projects. Typically, they provide a web-based interface to share documents and data for analysis. However, currently there is no support for earlier stages of research projects in the context of behaviour monitoring such as data collection. With the rise of solutions based on information and communication technologies (ICT), the number of clinical studies using such technologies increases. Thus, the need to support collaboration during earlier project phases increases as data collection has to be monitored remotely. We developed a VRE to provide support during all phases of ICT based studies. During a study on agitated behaviour of people with dementia based on ICT solutions, we employed this VRE. In this paper, we describe the VRE and its features with respect to the research project.