Comprehensible video acquisition for caregiving scenes—How multimedia can support caregiver training

Abstract

Caregiving requires a variety of techniques that directly affect carereceivers’ quality of life. However, caregivers have difficulties in objectively observing and confirming their skills and whether they are providing care-receivers with appropriate and acceptable care. Videotaping is often used in caregiver training for this purpose. This paper introduces a novel method for enhancing such videotaping using information media technology, capturing video using multiple cameras and editing the videos automatically into a single-stream video to achieve a recording purpose. The purpose is to provide an effectivemeans of observing and learning caregiving from typical important points of view. Our experiments showed that videos obtained through our proposed method are effective for the intended purposes.