Trust based security auto-configuration for smart assisted living environments
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Assurable and usable security configuration
Search in virtual and study in real: a ubiquitous query/answer system
DNIS'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Databases in networked information systems
SEGEDMA: Sensor grid enhancement data management system for Health Care computing
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A system for localising and searching objects to enhance self-directed practical learning
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
Ubiquitous Healthcare Computing with Sensor Grid Enhancement with Data Management System (SEGEDMA)
Journal of Medical Systems
Hi-index | 0.01 |
Smart care technology is any sensor based technology used to aid and support human independent living. Such technologies offer new potential and can give rise to new problems for making the technology accessible to users. In this work we focus on integrated services for people with visual impairment. Web based information services have already been adapted for people with varying degrees of disability. What is needed now is a service oriented architecture that integrates information services with smart care technology such as sensor devices that generate data for input, processing, storage and query. The main new challenge we identified here is that users may be living in a perplexing contexture -- a chain of barriers affecting their ability to live independently. Contexts such as mobility dependencies must therefore be recorded and used, indoors and outside. Users should be monitored during their interactions with services, and the meaning of their behaviour inferred in order to refine the services. Moreover, by giving a set of user scenarios, we present a higher level view of users' needs than single service invocation; alternatives and follow-on services might be suggested and previous interactions built upon. Management of the architecture must allow for incorporation of new technology and upgrade of services. Technology for smart care is developing rapidly; its usefulness, and acceptance, requires a dynamic and flexible architecture to support ease of management and use.