Title :
Ubiquitous Services for Senior Citizens - Living Process Detection and Middleware
Author :
Metso, Antero ; Pulli, Petri ; Hickey, Seamus ; Zheng, Xiaosong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Process. Sci., Univ. of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Abstract :
Ubiquitous services are designed to help senior citizenspsila daily lives. Living processes and middleware are the key enablers of ubiquitous services. In this paper a ubiquitous service system is established with detailed descriptions of its key components and their functions. Game engine is proposed as middleware for ubiquitous services. This paper discusses ubiquitous service system, living process detection and middleware building in details. At the end of the paper conclusions are made and future research directions are outlined.
Keywords :
handicapped aids; middleware; ubiquitous computing; game engine; living process detection; middleware; senior citizen; ubiquitous service system; Buildings; Disaster management; Engines; Health information management; Information science; Medical services; Middleware; Pervasive computing; Quality function deployment; Senior citizens; architecture; game engine; middleware; ontology; senior citizen; ubiquitous service;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Information Science, 2009. ICIS 2009. Eighth IEEE/ACIS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3641-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICIS.2009.182
