Ein wissensbasiertes Framework zur flexiblen Konfiguration von AAL-Umgebungen

Die Herausforderung in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) ist es, die vielen heterogenen Komponenten in der AAL-Umgebung geeignet zu arrangieren, um auf die individuellen, schnell wechselnden Bedürfnisse der Nutzer einzugehen. Die Lösung ist ein semantisches Konfigurationsframework. Dieses Framework beinhaltet geeignete Prozesse, Werkzeuge sowie einen ontologiebasierten Austausch, Wiederverwendung und Automatisierung der Informationen zwischen den einzelnen Integrationsschritten

Towards a Requirement Framework for Online Participation Platforms

Online participation platforms (OPPs) are frequently used by public institutions to involve citizens in political opinion forming and decision making. A literature re-view reveals different approaches to evaluate these OPPs. These approaches focus only on partial requirements of participation processes. In this research in progress, we develop and pretest an interdisciplinary literature-based requirement frame-work. It includes the categories usability, security, information, transparency, inte-gration, and mobilisation. Our aim is to close the research gap of a context-specific analysis and evaluation of OPPs

A New Method for Structured Integration of User Needs in Two Health Technology Development Projects: Action Sheets

An early integration of users and stakeholders is needed for a successful innovation process. Nonetheless, the integration of users is often hard to realize - especially when dealing with persons with chronic diseases. In addition, patients or users in general often are not able to formulate the requirements in a technical manner. Therefore, even if user requirements are collected, it is not certain that the developers know or understand \u27what is really wanted\u27. To overcome these \u27gaps\u27, we have developed so-called Action Sheets (AS). This article presents the use of AS in two projects: the development of health technologies for people with cancer (INFOPAT) and dementia (QuartrBack). Depending on the project context, group sessions were conducted with different stakeholders to identify the needs of (potential) users. Within the INFOPAT project, ten focus groups were conducted with patients, physicians and other healthcare professionals. In QuartrBack stakeholders like e.g. care professionals, technical assistance organizations and citizens participated in two focus groups and three world cafes. Their requirements were then \u27fed\u27 into the technology development by the use of AS. AS appear to be a promising tool to make user needs based on social values more tangible and implementable into technology development processes. In addition, it shows up that four phases seem to be necessary for transferring identified user and stakeholder needs into AS, which can therefore be seen as essential to translate non-technically formulated requirements into technically feasible ones. The case study shows as lessons learned that despite the successful integration of user needs, context-sensitive adjustments are still necessary