Ambient Assisted Living solutions (AAL) aim to improve the quality of life, especially of elderly with cognitive and physical disabilities, by providing as- assistive tasks such as medication management, reminders of daily activities or medical tests. However, the loss of physical functions (such as mobility, eyesight and hear- ing), as well as the loss of cognitive functions (starting from amnesia to severe disabilities as dementia or Alzheimer), require appropriate solutions in order to of- fer personalised assistive tasks according to user needs and characteristics. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology that is based on the integration of a service-oriented approach with normative reasoning to automatically generate assistive tasks customised for differ- ent target user's profiles, and deployable in any AAL environment. The formalisation of the conceptual steps of the methodology is provided, together with a framework implementing them. The advantages of dynamic customisation obtained by decoupling the functional and not functional aspects of assistive technology are shown through a validation scenario.
Customisable Assistive Plans as Dynamic Composition of Services with Normed-QoS
Claudia Di Napoli;Patrizia Ribino;Luca Serino
2020
Abstract
Ambient Assisted Living solutions (AAL) aim to improve the quality of life, especially of elderly with cognitive and physical disabilities, by providing as- assistive tasks such as medication management, reminders of daily activities or medical tests. However, the loss of physical functions (such as mobility, eyesight and hear- ing), as well as the loss of cognitive functions (starting from amnesia to severe disabilities as dementia or Alzheimer), require appropriate solutions in order to of- fer personalised assistive tasks according to user needs and characteristics. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology that is based on the integration of a service-oriented approach with normative reasoning to automatically generate assistive tasks customised for differ- ent target user's profiles, and deployable in any AAL environment. The formalisation of the conceptual steps of the methodology is provided, together with a framework implementing them. The advantages of dynamic customisation obtained by decoupling the functional and not functional aspects of assistive technology are shown through a validation scenario.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.