ASSISTIVE ENVIRONMENTS
J. Abascal, José Luis Sevillano, A. Civit, G. Jiménez, Jorge L. Falcó · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2005
In the last decade, Assistive Technology researchers have studied and developed accessible and adaptable environments intended to enhance the autonomy and the quality of life of the people with disabilities and elderly people. Their efforts, technologically rooted in the Ubiquitous Computing technologies, are firmly supported by the Ambient Intelligence concept. In the assistive scenario the main problem that researchers have to face is the integration of diverse local and remote services that were previously provided through different network technologies. In this paper we identify the main issues that may influence design decisions regarding the integration of -and the interaction among- different subsystems in the context of assistive technologies.