Architectural styles and the design of network-based software architectures
Architectural styles and the design of network-based software architectures
HIT and MIS: implications of health information technology and medical information systems
Communications of the ACM - The digital society
Towards personalised home care systems
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
Intelligent services for assisting independent living of elderly people at home
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
iCare home portal: an extended model of quality aging e-services
Communications of the ACM - Scratch Programming for All
The BehaviorScope framework for enabling ambient assisted living
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Service personalization for assistive living in a mobile ambient healthcare-networked environment
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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Assistive devices help elderly persons to live longer in their homes. Unfortunately, the devices on the market are incompatible with each other. Also, integration to higher-level services is an open issue. In this article, we propose a portal-based home care platform that integrates together multiple assistive devices and their online services. The integration is done at three levels: service, information, and device. At the service level, we use portal technology to integrate together Personal Health Record (PHR), external services, and web-based device user interfaces. At the information level, we integrate the different devices and services to the PHR using REST-based web services. At the device level, we use a home automation gateway to connect the different devices to the PHR and portal. We tested the architecture in a living lab environment. The results show that multiple integration levels improve the flexibility of home health care systems.