Authors:
Bastian Wollschlaeger
and
Klaus Kabitzsch
Affiliation:
Chair of Technical Information Systems, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden and Germany
Keyword(s):
Health Smart Home, Assistive Technology, Design of Assistance Systems, Ambient Assisted Living, Digitalized Health, Interoperability.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Assistive Technologies
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
ICT, Ageing and Disability
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Pattern Recognition
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
Health Smart Homes offer assistance capabilities and facilitate the shift towards individual, precise health care. However, due to the variety of patient requirements and the enormous amount of existing solutions, the manual engineering of customized assistance systems becomes infeasible. By further automating this design approach, a customization of home-based assistance systems can be facilitated. In order to enable an automated design approach of assistance systems for home-based health care, a common functional vocabulary needs to be agreed upon. This paper proposes a literature-based categorization of established assistance functions and a literature comparison based on these categories to facilitate standardization of assistance functions. Therefore, we analyze standards and experience reports to identify and categorize the most common assistance use cases and functions. The results show that there is no single standard defining the most common assistance functions, which hampe
rs communication and impedes the design process of health smart homes. To mitigate this effect, we envision a building block-based definition of a common vocabulary for assistance functions.
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