A Legal View of Ambient Assisted Living Developments

Proceedings of: 8th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems, Salamanca, Spain, April 26-28, 2010.In this paper, a legal approach to Ambient Assisted Living is considered. A general framework for context-aware applications is presented and a general view of legal principles to be considered in this framework. The analysis of a specific application of AAL, developed in a previous work, allows understanding these principles in a real development and the applicability for designing AAL applications.This work has been partially supported by Projects CICYT TIN2008- 06742-C02-02/TSI, CICYT TEC2008-06732-C02-02/TEC, SINPROB, CAM CONTEXTS S2009/TIC-1485 and DPS2008-07029-C02-02.Publicad