HomeTL : A Tool Set to Support Service Monitoring Development

Alberto Rugnone,Chris Nugent,Mark Donnelly,Enrico Vicaro,Cristiano Paggetti 한국과학기술원 인간친화 복지 로봇 시스템 연구센터 2008 International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Me Vol.9 No.1

  The integration of intelligent technology into the home environment has become recognized as a means of providing higher levels of autonomy and independence for the aging population. Within this technology domain, an area of particular interest is in the development of the services offering the facility to monitor and react to contextual scenarios based on the information sampled from sensorised environments. To facilitate the definition of the set of rules upon which the monitoring service can react, healthcare professionals are consulted to define the specifications of scenarios and to profile user specific needs. This activity also requires technical expertise to design, implement and refine the set of rules which guide the context under which the technology operates. As a result healthcare professionals are unable to fully participate in the development of the service model. This has resulted in an emerging barrier between the coherence of the healthcare professional descriptions and the understanding of technology providers. The current work proposes a set of tools to reduce this barrier and involve the health care professionals in the development process. Initial results from a user evaluation suggest that such tools hold the potential for real world adoption in the process of designing and interpreting the set of rules used to govern an intelligent environment.

A Logical Framework for Behaviour Reasoning and Assistance in a Smart Home

Liming Chen,Chris Nugent,Maurice Mulvenna,Dewar Finlay,Xin hong,and Michael Poland 한국과학기술원 인간친화 복지 로봇 시스템 연구센터 2008 International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Me Vol.9 No.4

Smart Homes(SH) have emerged as a realistic intelligent assistive environment capable of providing assistive living for the elderly and the disabled. Nevertheless, it still remains a challenge to assist the inhabitants of a SH in performing the ""right"" action(s) at the ""right"" time in the ""right"" place. To address this challenge, this paper introduces a novel logical framework for cognitive behavioural modelling, reasoning and assistance based on a highly developed logical theory of actions - the Event Calculus. Cognitive models go beyond data- centric behavioural models in that they govern an inhabitant's behaviour by reasoning about its knowledge, actions and environmental events. In our work we outline the theoretical foundation of such and approach and describe cognitive modelling of SH. We discuss the reasoning capabilities and algorithms of the cognitive SH model and present the details of the various tasks it can support. A system architecture is proposed to illustrate the use of the framework in facilitating assistive living. We demonstrate the perceived effectiveness of the approach through presentation of its operation in the context of a real world daily activity scenario.

A Logical Framework for Behaviour Reasoning and Assistance in a Smart Home

Liming Chen,Chris Nugent,Maurice Mulvenna,Dewar Finlay,Xin Hong,Michael Poland 동국대학교 정보융합기술원 2008 International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Sy Vol.9 No.4

Smart Homes (SH) have emerged as a realistic intelligent assistive environment capable of providing assistive living for the elderly and the disabled. Nevertheless, it still remains a challenge to assist the inhabitants of a SH in performing the “right” action(s) at the “right” time in the “right” place. To address this challenge, this paper introduces a novel logical framework for cognitive behavioural modelling, reasoning and assistance based on a highly developed logical theory of actions - the Event Calculus. Cognitive models go beyond datacentric behavioural models in that they govern an inhabitant’s behaviour by reasoning about its knowledge, actions and environmental events. In our work we outline the theoretical foundation of such an approach and describe cognitive modelling of SH. We discuss the reasoning capabilities and algorithms of the cognitive SH model and present the details of the various tasks it can support. A system architecture is proposed to illustrate the use of the framework in facilitating assistive living. We demonstrate the perceived effectiveness of the approach through presentation of its operation in the context of a real world daily activity scenario.

HomeTL: A Tool Set to Support Service Monitoring Development

Alberto Rugnone,Chris Nugent,Mark Donnelly,Enrico Vicaro,Cristiano Paggetti 동국대학교 정보융합기술원 2008 International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Sy Vol.9 No.1

The integration of intelligent technology into the home environment has become recognized as a means of providing higher levels of autonomy and independence for the aging population. Within this technology domain, an area of particular interest is in the development of the services offering the facility to monitor and react to contextual scenarios based on the information sampled from sensorised environments. To facilitate the definition of the set of rules upon which the monitoring service can react, healthcare professionals are consulted to define the specifications of scenarios and to profile user specific needs. This activity also requires technical expertise to design, implement and refine the set of rules which guide the context under which the technology operates. As a result healthcare professionals are unable to fully participate in the development of the service model. This has resulted in an emerging barrier between the coherence of the healthcare professional descriptions and the understanding of technology providers. The current work proposes a set of tools to reduce this barrier and involve the healthcare professionals in the development process. Initial results from a user evaluation suggest that such tools hold the potential for real world adoption in the process of designing and interpreting the set of rules used to govern an intelligent environment.

Preface for the Special Issue on uHealthcare

Sungyoung Lee,Chris Nugent,Lionel M. Ni 한국정보과학회 2011 Journal of Computing Science and Engineering Vol.5 No.3

PHealth Service Deployment Methodology: A Case Study

Cristiano Paggetti,Alberto Rugnone,Elena Tamburini,Chris Nugent 한국정보과학회 2012 Journal of Computing Science and Engineering Vol.6 No.1

It has been proved that information and communication technology (ICT) solutions for personalized health (PHealth) and ambient assisted living (AAL) can support people in their daily life activities. Several solutions have been demonstrated to empower different levels of services through seamless data acquisition and specific users’ interaction modalities. Usually services usability and accessibility are handled in the design process and are validated with small users’ groups. Moreover, while service design and systems development have been extensively described in literature, service deployment methodologies are not properly addressed and documented. Proper reference guidelines are also missing. The most common methodologies like unified process (UP) or ICONX can cover only the design and the development of PHealth services without a clear description on the following phases such as deployment, service provision and maintenance. These phases present several risks to be taken into account right from the beginning of the implementation of PHealth or AAL services. This paper focuses on the description of a structured methodology to deploy PHealth services and how this process can be supported by integrated software routines and adapting the UP framework in particular the “Transition phase.”

PHealth Service Deployment Methodology: A Case Study

Paggetti, Cristiano,Rugnone, Alberto,Tamburini, Elena,Nugent, Chris Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Eng 2012 Journal of Computing Science and Engineering Vol.6 No.1

It has been proved that information and communication technology (ICT) solutions for personalized health (PHealth) and ambient assisted living (AAL) can support people in their daily life activities. Several solutions have been demonstrated to empower different levels of services through seamless data acquisition and specific users' interaction modalities. Usually services usability and accessibility are handled in the design process and are validated with small users' groups. Moreover, while service design and systems development have been extensively described in literature, service deployment methodologies are not properly addressed and documented. Proper reference guidelines are also missing. The most common methodologies like unified process (UP) or ICONX can cover only the design and the development of PHealth services without a clear description on the following phases such as deployment, service provision and maintenance. These phases present several risks to be taken into account right from the beginning of the implementation of PHealth or AAL services. This paper focuses on the description of a structured methodology to deploy PHealth services and how this process can be supported by integrated software routines and adapting the UP framework in particular the "Transition phase."