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Identifier

000377049

Title

Support for context-aware healthcare in Ambient Assisted Living

Alternative Title

Υποστήριξη γενικού πλαισίου ιατρικής φροντίδας στον τομέα της υποβοηθούμενης διαβίωσης

Author

Ζωγραφιστού, Δήμητρα Αντώνιος

Thesis advisor

Πλεξουσάκης, Δημήτρης
Αντωνίου, Γρηγόρης

Abstract

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) has been one of the greatest visions of the Information Society. It brings intelligence to people’s everyday environment making it autonomously adaptable, proactive and context-sensitive to the users’ needs. In parallel, the evolution of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) field has attracted considerable attention in the scientific community and it constitutes one of the most significant applications of AmI technologies. AAL gives the opportunity to elderly to lead independent lives, confiding in part the care of their health and their living in smart devices that operate in people’s most intimate environment, their home. The objective of the current thesis is to develop the concept of an integrated contextaware system that combines technologies of the semantic web, with those of Ambient Intelligence, in a way of assisting an old person with his/her daily routine. Particularly, we exploit advantages of ontologies and semantics for creating a formal representation of context information, which in our domain includes environment entities, user profiling and health aspects. This information constitutes the knowledge base of our system. Three types of reasoning are applied upon this knowledge: a first level rule-based reasoning for inferring additional information about the context, a case based reasoning for recognizing the current activity and a final reasoning step that undertakes to offer personalized assistance in the form of rules expressed in a high-level rule language. The rules about the assistance conclude to actions related with the recognized activity, with aspects of the person’s health, or with emergency situations. Furthermore, we present a use case scenario that captures the functionality supported by the current approach. A subset of this has also been demonstrated with realistic conditions and users showing that it can perform in real time with compensatory results.

Language

English

Subject

Ambient Intelligence

Assisted Living

Context-Aware Systems

Διάχυτη νοημοσύνη

Συστήματα επίγνωσης παραμέτρων του περιβάλλοντος

Υποβοηθούμενη διαβίωση

Issue date

2012-11-16

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