An Adaptive User Interface Framework for eHealth Services based on UIML

New sensory technologies and smaller, more capable mobile devices open opportunities for pervasive computing in the healthcare sector. Patients as well as medical professionals are, from a information and communication technology (ICT) point of view, better equipped than ever before. Despite this, many hospitals and other healthcare service providers have yet to exploit the potential unleashed by these technologies. In this paper, we present a framework for adaptive user interfaces for home care and smart hospital services. The framework uses the current context to provide healthcare professionals or patients with simpler, more efficient user interfaces. In a home care environment, user interface adaption is needed to tailor user interfaces to patients needs and impairments. In a smart hospital, user interface adaption considers medical professionals’ preferences and priorities. In addition, by using context to make input suggestions simplifies the input and limits the scope for errors. Our frameworks uses a modelbased approach and includes the current context in the interface generation process

A SOA-based Model Supporting Adaptive Web-based Applications

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) supports the integration of distributed and heterogeneous services by offering Web Service composition standards which describe service composition as a business process. However, the composition model proposed in SOA does not explicitly deal with personalization and context-awareness. In order to address such limitations, we have developed the CAWE conceptual framework. In this paper, we describe the personalization support offered by our framework to the development of context-aware, adaptive web-based systems. CAWE handles the integration of heterogeneous services and information sources; moreover, it manages long-lasting interactions with multiple cooperating users and it personalizes the business logic of the application by adapting the workflow activities to be carried out. 1