This paper presents the outcome of the evaluation of existing practices and services that assist the independent living of elderly population. In the context of this investigation we examined already existing practices and services and promote the ones that have the greatest impact to their lives and potential for wider commercial exploitation.
Assistive technologies are directly linked to the elderly and the disabled people. The necessary services offered by an assistive technologies ecosystem are provided mostly through internet. It is also well known that elderly and disabled people find difficult to access the internet. The resulting challenge is to discover a combination of assistive technologies, meaning devices and software interface characteristics in order to give the opportunity to elderly and disabled to access the internet and enhance their autonomy to the extent made possible by electronic services. To address this, we elaborate on the concept of ecosystems to propose the notion of assistive living ecosystems for the design of a common framework and present a real example of a platform that builds on the notions of assistive environment exploiting technologies that empower elderly autonomy.
Presents work carried out in the wider context of the IST Adrenalin project whose aim is to facilitate formation and lifecycle management of networked enterprises utilising concepts from two key information research areas. The approach described places heavy emphasis on the notion of mobile agent technologies and their adaptation for achieving the IT realisation of the above theoretical background. It covers specification, design and conceptual realisation of how information supply chains and routes can be organised and navigated across networked enterprise activities within the context of a branch independent model. Builds on the distribute and integrate concept as well as on the fractal idea by supporting self‐similarity, self‐organisation, self‐optimisation and dynamic organisational behavior. The harmonised combination of the concepts formulated in the Adrenalin theoretical framework and their IT realisation are employed within the context of a real‐world case study in an industrial ERP system.
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