Personalized healthcare through intelligent gadgets.
No Thumbnail Available
Date
2009-02-16
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
An intelligent gadget is a wearable platform which is reconfigurable scalable and component based and which can be equipped carried as a personal accessory or in a certain case implanted internally into a body Various kinds of personal information can be gathered with intelligent gadgets and that information is used to provide specially personalized services to people in the ubiquitous computing environment In this paper we show a personalized healthcare service through intelligent gadgets A service based on intelligent gadgets can be built intuitively and easily with a context representation language called the intelligent gadget markup language IGML based on the event condition action ECA rule The inherent nature of extensibility not only environmental information but also physiological information can be specified as a context in IGML and can be dealt with an intelligent gadget with ease It enables intelligent gadgets to be adopted to many different kinds of personalized healthcare services