The context of this project is the growing need for automated health-care support for the sick and the elderly at home that can provide them with more comfort and safety while reducing the overall cost of the health-care system. Smart spaces have the potential to provide such automated support as numerous projects have demonstrated [Anliker04, Moulton04, Quarrie07, Baker07, Gonçalves09] and as a recent European research funding initiative on Ambient Assisted Living emphasizes (http://www.aal-europe.eu/).

The goal of this project is to develop and evaluate a novel approach based on meta-reality reflection and search algorithms that helps finding and deploying interference-free health-care smart-space configurations. To achieve this goal, we will:
– use reflection to dynamically reify the structure and behavior of smart spaces into a virtual-reality meta-model and reflect changes in the meta-model back to the smart-space;
– use search algorithms to efficiently navigate the meta-model configuration space and find interference-free configurations of health-care smart-systems;

UFP participants:
– Prof. Doctor Rui Silva Moreira
– Prof. Doctor José Manuel Torres
– Prof. Doctor Pedro Sobral
– Mr. Christophe Soares
– Mr. Filipe Silva
– Mr. Sérgio Vale

Submitting entity:
– INESC TEC
– Fundação Ensino e Cultura Fernando Pessoa

Project supported by:
– ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) através do programa COMPETE (Operational Programme for Competitiveness) e por fundos nacionais da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia através do projeto PTDC/EIA-EIA/108352/2008 (COMP-01-0124-FEDER-010143)