Socio-technical Factors in the Deployment of Participatory Pervasive Systems in Non-Expert Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 296-317
Author(s):  
Andreas Komninos ◽  
Brian MacDonald ◽  
Peter Barrie
Keyword(s):  
Pervasive Computing ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Pervasive Systems ◽  
Tiered System ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Guide System ◽  
Technical Factors ◽  
Mobile Tourist Guide

This chapter discusses the design and development of an interactive mobile tourist guide system according to the principles of Pervasive Computing laid out by Hansmann (2004) and presents solutions to the technical issues encountered in the development of a multi-tiered system that encompasses a wide ecology of devices. The chapter further presents the non-technical issues encountered during a live trial of the system and uses the experience gathered from this deployment to present evidence that Hansmann’s (2004) four principles require the addition of a fifth principle, which is defined and based on hedonic values. In this view, the latter are crucial to the successful adoption of mobile and pervasive systems.

Ontology-based models in pervasive computing systems

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUAN YE ◽  
LORCAN COYLE ◽  
SIMON DOBSON ◽  
PADDY NIXON
Keyword(s):  
Pervasive Computing ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Shared Representations ◽  
Pervasive Systems ◽  
Structured Information ◽  
Compare And Contrast

AbstractPervasive computing is by its nature open and extensible, and must integrate the information from a diverse range of sources. This leads to a problem of information exchange, so sub-systems must agree on shared representations. Ontologies potentially provide a well-founded mechanism for the representation and exchange of such structured information. A number of ontologies have been developed specifically for use in pervasive computing, none of which appears to cover adequately the space of concerns applicable to application designers. We compare and contrast the most popular ontologies, evaluating them against the system challenges generally recognized within the pervasive computing community. We identify a number of deficiencies that must be addressed in order to apply the ontological techniques successfully to next-generation pervasive systems.

Ontological Representation and an Architecture for Homecare Pervasive Systems

2013 ◽  
pp. 215-234
Author(s):  
Leandro Freitas ◽  
Rafael T. Pereira ◽  
Henrique G. G. Pereira ◽  
Ricardo Martini ◽  
Bruno A. Mozzaquatro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Representation ◽  
Pervasive Computing ◽  
World Population ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Pervasive Systems ◽  
High Level ◽  
Representation Of Knowledge ◽  
Patient Attendance

Queues in hospitals grow due to, among others, the increasing world population and delay in patient attendance. One way of solving this problem is developing systems to provide treatment directly in the homes of patients. These systems help to decrease queues, improving the attendance to those looking for assistance. In this chapter, the authors present an ontological representation of knowledge of homecare environments and the modeling of an architecture for pervasive systems to this kind of domain. Systems with this modeling aim to improve services provided by professionals during treatment of patients located in their houses. The authors used concepts of pervasive computing to provide access to information anytime and wherever the user is, once a homecare environment has a high level of dynamicity. The knowledge representation is done through ontologies due to the possibility of reuse of information stored, as well as the interoperability of information among different computational devices.

scholarly journals Design and Development of a Guide System for Building an Ontology based on Task/Domain Role Concepts

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 585-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seiichi ISHIKAWA ◽  
Shigeki KUBO ◽  
Kouji KOZAKI ◽  
Yoshinobu KITAMURA ◽  
Riichiro MIZOGUCHI
Keyword(s):  
Design And Development ◽  
Guide System

Sensor Networks in Pervasive Healthcare Computing

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhilbert Tafa
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Pervasive Computing ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Pervasive Healthcare ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Systems Implementation ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Sensor Networking ◽  
Technical Issues

Advances in wireless sensor networking (WSN) have opened up new opportunities in distributed informatics. Pervasive healthcare, based on WSN, is an emerging technology area with great potential of future applicability. Small size devices capable of sensing, computing and communicating, enable pervasive platforms; while opening up the large number of technical, medical, social and ethical questions and challenges. Though mostly focused on technical issues, this chapter also addresses some non-technical aspects implied by the technology implementation in medicine. It presents the general philosophy of the pervasive computing and technical design space of wireless sensor networks, mostly highlighting: the energy conservation, communication aspects, security, and software implementation. The state of the art in ubiquitous healthcare, challenges, open questions, as well as the non-technical aspects of the systems implementation are also presented here. As such, this chapter intends to give an insight on most important WSN-based pervasive computing issues, the multidisciplinary application-driven design of these systems, and their position in healthcare pervasive computing.

Representing and reasoning with situations for context-aware pervasive computing: a logic programming perspective

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
SENG W LOKE
Keyword(s):  
Logic Programming ◽  
Pervasive Computing ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Pervasive Systems ◽  
Computational Environment ◽  
Meta Programming ◽  
Context Aware System ◽  
High Level

Context-aware pervasive systems are emerging as an important class of applications. Such systems can respond intelligently to contextual information about the physical world acquired via sensors and information about the computational environment. A declarative approach to building context-aware pervasive systems is presented, and the notion of the situation program is introduced, which highlights the primacy of the situation abstraction for building context-aware pervasive systems. There is also a demonstration of how to manipulate situation programs using meta-programming within an extension of the Prolog logic programming language which is called LogicCAP. Such meta-reasoning enables complex situations to be described in terms of other situations. Furthermore, a discussion is given on how the design of situation programs can affect the properties of a context-aware system. The approach encourages a high-level of abstraction for representing and reasoning with situations, and supports building context-aware systems incrementally by providing modularity and separation of concerns.

scholarly journals Social capital factors in disaster risk reduction on West Sumatera non-engineered house

2019 ◽  
Vol 276 ◽  
pp. 02004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yervi Hesna ◽  
Benny Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
House Construction ◽  
The People ◽  
Earthquake Vulnerability ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Technical Factors ◽  
Relationship Of

The increasing of earthquake vulnerability in Padang City based on earthquake zoning map demanded preparedness from the community. To ensure that the house is built in accordance with the concept of the non-engineered house, so it is more secure and minimizes the risk of casualties and losses caused by the earthquake. For the people who live in disaster-prone regions, it is important to build social capital in disaster preparedness, not just on technical issues. Technical factors are not enough to educate the community, besides it requires non-technical factors that may play a significant role in disaster reduction in the community. This study intends to identify the social capital factor that is needed in the application of earthquake-resistant housing concept in the implementation of non-engineered house construction as an effort to reduce disaster risks by the community. Social capital is identified from the relationship of homeowners with builders implementing the construction of the non-engineered house. The research location was conducted in Padang city of West Sumatera Province. Through this research, it is hoped that in the future, it will produce social-related policies that help local governments to encourage the increase of public awareness in realizing the construction of non-engineered houses.

Socio-technical issues in professional translation practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow ◽  
Gary Massey
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Computer Interfaces ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Feedback Culture ◽  
Professional Environment ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Technical Factors ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract According to the International Ergonomics Association, a focus on organizational ergonomics recognizes that people work within socio-technical systems that encompass tools, equipment, and computer interfaces as well as other actors in their professional environment and networks. In recent research, we have started investigating such socio-technical factors from an ergonomic perspective. Observations at professional workplaces, responses to questionnaires, and in-depth interviews with translators suggest that their perceived self-determination is more important to the success of socio-technical change than the technological developments themselves. A lack of involvement in decision-making at the workflow level may explain why so many translators have been resistant to taking new technology on board. We discuss how a feedback culture could mitigate many socio-technical issues by giving translators a voice in change and empowering them to contribute to organizational learning and growth.

scholarly journals Designing technology in the age of digitalization: needs for technology assessment and ethics

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 612-623
Author(s):  
Armin Grunwald
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Ethics And Technology ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Self Driving Cars ◽  
Future Technologies

Abstract Technology research, design, and development is confronted with rapidly advancing digitalization in two respects: (1) digitally supported or enabled technologies need to be designed and developed, and (2) the respective R&D processes themselves will happen in a much more digitalized environment. Technology design generally must take into account the values involved and possible consequences of the development and use of the resulting products, services, and systems. In a digitalizing environment, the issue of values gains even more significance because more and more close and intimate interfaces between humans and technology have to be shaped. Designing human-machine interfaces is not only a functional issue but touches upon ethical questions such as the distribution of responsibility, but also upon anthropological issues related to the human self-image and ideas about future society as well. In the respective research, design, and development processes, value-laden issues such as control, privacy, empathy, responsibility, and accountability must be taken into account beyond technical issues of efficiency and reliability. The need for designing and shaping digital future technologies involving ethics and technology assessment will be demonstrated by three examples: future industrial production and the fields of self-driving cars and care robots. Value sensitive design and responsible research and innovation will be introduced as approaches to deal with these challenges.

Sensor Networks in Pervasive Healthcare Computing

2011 ◽  
pp. 24-45
Author(s):  
Zhilbert Tafa
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Pervasive Computing ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Pervasive Healthcare ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Systems Implementation ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Sensor Networking ◽  
Technical Issues

Advances in wireless sensor networking (WSN) have opened up new opportunities in distributed informatics. Pervasive healthcare, based on WSN, is an emerging technology area with great potential of future applicability. Small size devices capable of sensing, computing and communicating, enable pervasive platforms; while opening up the large number of technical, medical, social and ethical questions and challenges. Though mostly focused on technical issues, this chapter also addresses some non-technical aspects implied by the technology implementation in medicine. It presents the general philosophy of the pervasive computing and technical design space of wireless sensor networks, mostly highlighting: the energy conservation, communication aspects, security, and software implementation. The state of the art in ubiquitous healthcare, challenges, open questions, as well as the non-technical aspects of the systems implementation are also presented here. As such, this chapter intends to give an insight on most important WSN-based pervasive computing issues, the multidisciplinary application-driven design of these systems, and their position in healthcare pervasive computing.

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