Semantic Space: An Infrastructure for Smart Spaces
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Towards personalised home care systems
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
HYCARE: A Hybrid Context-Aware Reminding Framework for Elders with Mild Dementia
ICOST '08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics
A User Interface Level Context Model for Ambient Assisted Living
ICOST '08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics
A middleware for context-aware agents in ubiquitous computing environments
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2003 International Conference on Middleware
A discussion of using mental models in assistive environments
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
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Home care systems need to be personalised to meet individual needs, and must be easily adjusted as the user's symptoms develop. Care policies (i.e. Event-Condition-Action rules) can be used to specify care services, facilitating changes in the behaviour of a home care system. Context modelling allows a user to specify the trigger and conditions of a care policy, using high-level context rather than raw sensor data. The actions of a care policy are, however, still dependent on the implementations details of actuators. We propose a framework that allows the actions of a care policy to be specified abstractly using human-understandable concepts. The framework takes care of discovering and using specific actuators, hiding the low-level home networking details from ordinary users. It therefore makes personalisation and modification of home care systems more accessible to ordinary users, requiring very little technical knowledge.