• DocumentCode
    3143893
  • 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
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    1-3 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    846
  • Lastpage
    851
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIS.2009.182
  • Filename
    5223105