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A design process enabling adaptation in pervasive heterogeneous contexts

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In the next decades, the growth in population aging will cause important problems to most industrialized countries. To tackle this issue, Ambient Assistive Living (AAL) systems can reinforce the well-being of elderly people, by providing emergency, autonomy enhancement, and comfort services. These services will postpone the need of a medicalized environment and will allow the elderly to stay longer at home. However, each elderly has specific needs and a deployment environment of such services is likely unique. Furthermore, the needs evolve over time, and so does the deployment environment of the system. In this paper, we propose the use of a model-based development method, the adaptive medium approach, to enable dynamic adaptation of AAL systems. We also propose improvements to make it more suited to the AAL domain, such as considering heterogeneity and a composition model. The paper includes an evaluation of the prototype implementing the approach, and a comparison with related work.

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  1. Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, http://www.share-project.org.

  2. A set-top box is a programmable hardware connected to a TV set.

  3. http://www.omg.org/mda.

  4. We voluntarily don’t consider whether the triggering of the adaptation is manual or automatic, as it is out of scope of this work.

  5. http://www.osgi.org/

  6. http://www.belami-project.org/.

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The authors would like to thank the Direction Générale des Entreprises for their funding, and the members of the SIGAAL project [21].

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    Jean-Baptiste Lézoray, Maria-Teresa Segarra, An Phung-Khac, André Thépaut, Jean-Marie Gilliot & Antoine Beugnard

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Lézoray, JB., Segarra, MT., Phung-Khac, A. et al. A design process enabling adaptation in pervasive heterogeneous contexts. Pers Ubiquit Comput 15, 353–363 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-010-0356-y

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