VirtualECare: Intelligent Assisted Living

Costa, Ricardo; Nováis, Paulo; Lima, Luís; Carneiro, Davide; Samico, Dário; Oliveira, João; Machado, José; Neves, José

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_17

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“…Furthermore, VirtualECare uses a MAS approach not only to monitor their users, but also to be interconnected to other computing systems and devices running in different healthcare institutions, leisure centers, training facilities, or shops [12]. The system's architecture is a distributed schema whose components are unified through a network [13]. The system was implemented under the standards of the OSGi platform [14] thus providing modularity and real-time integration of components with different architectures.…”

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User-Centered Ubiquitous Multi-Agent Model for e-Health Web-Based Recommender Applications Development

Álvarez

Salazar

Ovalle

2013

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. Despite recent progress in e-health system development, there are still significant problems in health service recommendation processes such as searching for healthcare specialists or medical appointments in hospitals and healthcare centers. Also, there are not so many e-health user-centered systems that provide assistance and good recommendations to users at any time in the location they are situated. The aim of this paper is to propose a model based on the integration of several approaches such as: ubiquitous computing, adaptive and recommender systems, web-based and user-centered multi-agent systems, and ontologies. In addition, an e-health web-based system prototype was built based on this model adopting mechanisms to search for information from anywhere and anytime, thus providing ubiquity characteristics. Finally, we present the validation of the U-MAS-HEALTH system by means of a case study.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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User-Centered Ubiquitous Multi-Agent Model for e-Health Web-Based Recommender Applications Development

Álvarez

Salazar

Ovalle

2013

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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“…user can interact with many eventually mobile devices, user can start or stop devices, user can incorporate new devices), we can state that an architecture for Ambient Intelligence should be dynamic, modular, expansible, flexible, scalable and compatible [14,15]. In order to implement such an architecture the two previously mentioned technologies will be considered together, joining the advantages of Service Oriented Architectures and Multi-agent Systems in order to build a dynamic environment that can incorporate a multitude of heterogeneous devices.…”

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“…This example is a simplification of what was the development process of the VirtualECare project [15]. In this example we will assume that we have only temperature and luminosity sensors.…”

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Developing Intelligent Environments with OSGi and JADE

Carneiro

Nováis

Costa

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Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice III

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Abstract. The development of intelligent environments poses complex challenges, namely at the level of device heterogeneity and environment dynamics. In fact, we still lack supporting technologies and development approaches that can efficiently integrate different devices and technologies. In this paper we present how a recent integration of two important technologies, OSGi and Jade, can be used to significantly improve the development process, making it a more dynamic, modular and configurable one. We also focus on the main advantages that this integration provides to developers, from the Ambient Intelligence point of view. This work results from the development of two intelligent environments: VirtualECare, which is an intelligent environment for the monitorization of elderly in their homes and UMCourt, a virtual environment for dispute resolution.

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“…The VirtualECare project [10] is an intelligent multi-agent system able, not only to monitor, but also to interact with its users (patients and/or relatives). It can, and should, be interconnected with other computing systems running in different health care institutions, leisure centers, training facilities and/or shops.…”

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Memory Support in Ambient Assisted Living

Costa

Nováis

Costa

et al. 2009

Leveraging Knowledge for Innovation in Collaborative Networks

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Abstract. Human collective set of experiences makes us who we are and help us delineate a path for our ongoing life. Ageing, however, progressively limits our ability to save, in our internal memory, these same experiences, or, at least, limits our capability to remember them. The capability to remember, intrinsic to our memory, is a very important one to us, as a human been, being this what deferent's us from several other species. In this paper we present a memory assistant sub module of a bigger project, the VirtualECare, which ability will be to remember us, not our past experiences, but our routine day-to-day tasks and activities, in a somehow proactive manner, thus, allowing us to have some relaxation about them, and focus the remaining of our ability in most important facts.

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VirtualECare: Intelligent Assisted Living

Cited by 16 publications

References 3 publications

User-Centered Ubiquitous Multi-Agent Model for e-Health Web-Based Recommender Applications Development

User-Centered Ubiquitous Multi-Agent Model for e-Health Web-Based Recommender Applications Development

Developing Intelligent Environments with OSGi and JADE

Memory Support in Ambient Assisted Living

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