A Collaborative Workflow for Computer-Aided Design in Ambient Assisted Living: The ASIM Project
Résumé
In 2014, the worldwide context is that the population is increasingly both expanding and aging in
industrial countries. In contrast, the personal health levels of individuals could decrease. Although retirement
homes and health-care centers assume most of the demand, they will most probably overflow in the
next few years. One of the current solutions is e-Health, which involves biomedical monitoring but also home
automation functions to compensate for disabilities that tend to increase with age. In this context, several
domains have to be merged while respecting the entire ecosystem: the users, their needs and environment,
but also all the various actors/experts involved in this process. The issue, however, is that enormous effort
is required to combine the multiple expert domains because these can be antinomic. Hence, this paper proposes
a collaborative workflow that brings together these different actors and generates the control/command
application. Applying model-driven engineering, this workflow makes a clear distinction between people ’ s
health requirements, the home automation functions, and the user interface points of view. Thus, it allows
experts in each field to adapt their system in terms of the user ’ s needs, disability, and health state.