Authors:
M. T. Segarra
1
and
F. André
2
Affiliations:
1
Institut Telecom, TELECOM Bretagne, France
;
2
IRISA / INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique, France
Keyword(s):
Distributed adaptation model, Adaptive software, Ambient assistive living application.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT
;
Development of Assistive Technology
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
Ambient assistive living applications are generally intended to allow older people to easily access medical and emergency services, and maintain social and relatives contacts. In order to improve performance, elderly related data may be distributed among the medical staff and/or the relatives. However, access to such data may require different properties such as confidentiality or urgency depending on the actor accessing data, the computing environment used to access them, and their nature. Therefore, ambient assistive living applications should be designed as adaptive software and include the necessary mechanisms to dynamically modify their behavior. In this paper, we propose a model for dynamic adaptation that clearly separates adaptation from business logic and that can be customized by applications designers in order to satisfy adaptation needs. The model is based on a set of mandatory functionalities that manage basic adaptation operations and an optional functionality that can
be used to distribute adaptation mechanisms.
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