Services Integration in Pervasive Environments Workshop

Research Article

Dynamic Selection of Interactive eHomeCare Services

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283941,
        author={Sofie  van Hoecke and Kristof  Taveirne and Filip  de Turck and Bart  Dhoedt},
        title={Dynamic Selection of Interactive eHomeCare Services},
        proceedings={Services Integration in Pervasive Environments Workshop},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={SIPE},
        year={2007},
        month={8},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283941}
    }
    
  • Sofie van Hoecke
    Kristof Taveirne
    Filip de Turck
    Bart Dhoedt
    Year: 2007
    Dynamic Selection of Interactive eHomeCare Services
    SIPE
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283941
Sofie van Hoecke1,*, Kristof Taveirne1, Filip de Turck1, Bart Dhoedt1
  • 1: Department of Information Technology, IBCN - IBBT - IMEC, Ghent University, Gaston Crommenlaan 8 bus 201, Ghent, Belgium, fax: +32 9 264 9960 - tel: +32 9 264 9970
*Contact email: sofie.vanhoecke@intec.ugent.be

Abstract

Ehomecare services can save money and improve patient care due to increased feelings of well-being at home. However, since not all patients are technical experts and ehomecare services are developed by different vendors, using different languages and data definitions, acceptance of ehomecare might become difficult due to the complexity of managing all the different service locations and login information or due to unavailability of requested services. Therefore in this paper the authors present a patient centered application as a facade to the broker platform providing dynamic service selection. The client application is adjusted dynamically to fit the patient's profile, fulfilling the specific needs for each patient personally and presents only the ehomecare services that are of interest to the patient. In order to alleviate users from service localization, the broker platform provides transparent service selection and switching and guarantees that service requests are handled by dynamically selecting the best or least loaded service, this way also providing reliability.