Challenges of Designing Privacy Enhanced Context-Aware Middleware for Assisted Healthcare

  • Authors:
  • Gautham Pallapa;Sajal K. Das

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, 76019;Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, 76019

  • Venue:
  • ICOST '08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

After more than fifty years of designing computers that require users to adapt to them, we now enter the epoch of human-centric computing, where systems are designed to adapt to users. A primary concern in ubiquitous computing research is to understand the potential relationship between computation and embedded context. Developers currently face challenges in interpreting context and incorporate little support in designing frameworks that help end-users manage their privacy in an intuitive way. In this paper, we investigate context in assisted healthcare, and provide a more comprehensive definition of context. Based on this, we present the major challenges faced by developers in creating privacy enhanced context aware ubiquitous middleware.