Juan Garcia

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• Conference Proceeding: A Context-aware Component for Indentifying Risks associated to Elder’s Activities of Daily Living

  Saldaña D, Rodríguez M, Espinoza A, García-Vázquez JP
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  ABSTRACT: As elders age, performing everyday tasks can be filled with risks that threaten their health and independence. We present a context-aware component based on agents that enables developers to build Ambient Intelligence Systems for supporting the independent living of elders. This component uses the ELDeR ontology that we propose to model the context information inherent to the elder's daily activities and that enables agents to infer risks. Our aim is to provide a context-aware component flexible enough to easily enable developers to change the contextual conditions for inferring risks in order to respond to a different scenario. In this paper, we describe the component functionality and illustrate its use by presenting the design of a sample application.
  PervaSense 2009, London; 01/2009
• Conference Proceeding: Ambient Information Systems to Support the Elderly in Carrying Out Their Activities of Daily Living

  García-Vázquez J.P, Rodríguez M.
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  ABSTRACT: As they age, older adult’s present losses in their functional capabilities which cause them can’t continue performing their activities of daily living (ADL) independently at home. We propose Ambient Information Systems (AIS) as appropriate pervasive devices to promote their independent living. Therefore our aim is to determine the utility and usability of AIS to support the independent life of older adults by helping them to perform their activities. In this paper we present preliminary results of a case study that we carried out for understanding the problems and needs that older adults face in doing some of their activities of daily living. In particular, we present results regarding the elderly problems to adhere to their medication prescription. Based on these results we propose AIS to support older adults to medicate. Finally, we present the design attributes incorporated into this AIS, which were identified from the design taxonomies of AIS reported in the literature.
  OnTheMove 2009, Vilamoura Portugal; 01/2009
• Conference Proceeding: ELDeR: An Ontology for Enabling inDependently of Risks

  Saldaña D, Rodríguez M, García-Vázquez JP, Espinoza A
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  ABSTRACT: We present a Context-aware Component based on agents that enables developers to build Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Systems for supporting the independent living of elders. This component uses the ELDeR ontology that we propose to model the context information inherent to the elder’s daily activities and that enables agents to infer risks. Our aim is to provide an ontology flexible enough to easily enable developers to change the contextual conditions for inferring risks in order to respond to a different scenario. In this paper, we describe the functionality of the activity-aware component and the ELDeR ontology and illustrate their use by presenting the design of an application
  OnTheMove 2009, Vilamoura Portugal; 01/2009
• Conference Proceeding: Enhancing a Wearable Help Button to Support the Medication Adherence of Older Adults

  Espinoza A, García-Vázquez J.P, Rodríguez M, Andrade A, García-Peña C
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  ABSTRACT: Medication adherence has been identified as a problem that contributes to increasing the use of health-care services. In this paper, we present the design of a Wearable Notification Display for supporting Medication Adherence which was designed in the context of a project that will study the impact of using “help buttons” to provide permanent socio-medical assistance to the elderly. From a case study that we conducted with six (6) participants we gained an initial understanding of how the elderly manage their medications to avoid the inherent risks associated with medicating that are identified in the literature. From this understanding, we identified how the characteristics for Notification Systems should be implemented in a system with the goal of supporting an activity carried out by older adults. Thus, we present the design characteristics incorporated into the Wearable Notification Display for Medication Adherence, which we consider will enable the elderly to easily read and interpret the information presented on the display.
  Latin American Web Congress, Joint LA-WEB/CLIHC 2009, Yucatan Mexico; 01/2009
• Conference Proceeding: Ambient Information Systems for Supporting Elder’s Independent Living at Home

  García-Vázquez J.P., Rodríguez M., Andrade A.
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  ABSTRACT: As they age, older adult’s present losses in their functional capabilities which cause them can’t continue performing their activities of daily living (ADL) independently at home. We propose Ambient Information Systems (AIS) as appropriate pervasive devices to promote their independent living. Therefore our aim is to determine the utility and usability of AIS to support the independent life of older adults by helping them to perform their activities. In this paper we present preliminary results of a case study that we carried out for understanding the problems and needs that older adults face in doing some of their activities of daily living. In particular, we present results regarding the elderly problems to adhere to their medication prescription. Based on these results we propose AIS to support older adults to medicate. Finally, we present the design attributes incorporated into this AIS, which were identified from the design taxonomies of AIS reported in the literature.
  1st International Workshop of Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL 2009), Salamanca, España; 01/2009