A Middleware Architecture for Human-Centred Pervasive Adaptive Applications

As software is more and more interweaving with our everyday life, designing software in a way that it reflects and respects the user and her emotional physical conditions, cognitive engagement, and emotional state, become imperative. However, how such human-centred pervasive adaptive applications are to be designed and realized is still hardly understood. Both engineering approaches and runtime support for such applications are still in their infancy. In this paper, we present the REFLECTive middleware, a framework that facilitates the development and operation of such applications. The middleware is explained on the base of an envisioned example, the affective music player. By offering design patterns geared towards pervasive adaptive applications and leveraging them for achieving adaptivity, the REFLECTive middleware support a systematic and clear approach to engineering and deploying human-centred pervasive adaptive applications in daily life situations.