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Healthcare Tomorrow: Toward Self-adaptive, Ubiquitous and Personalized Services

Authors:
Diletta Cacciagrano
Flavio Corradini
Rosario Culmone
Emanuela Merelli
Leonardo Vito

Keywords: Ubiquitous computing; Self-adaptive systems; Ambient Assisted Living; Semantic Web.

Abstract:
Abstract—Ubiquitous computing is shifting welfare for elderly from traditional models, like family and in-hospital care,toward self, mobile, home and preventive care. This evolution is expected to be supported by Ambient Intelligent systems, embedded in smart homes and providing personalized services at the right time, place and manner. This is the vision of our proposal, an innovative methodological approach for designing and developing personalized and ubiquitous healthcare services that autonomously adapt at run-time to changes of the user needs and of the environment where he lives, so that improving the quality of its life.

Pages: 245 to 250

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: November 20, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-171-7

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 20, 2011 to November 25, 2011