Profile management for dynamic groups
2009 (English)In: Intelligent Patient Management, Berlin: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology/Springer Verlag, 2009, p. 297-313Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
There is a growing need in supporting social networking for groups who often become isolated, such as elders living at home. In a social network people with similar diseases and ailments can find each other and share information to improve their understanding of their illness. Group communication tools can help maintain a virtual social network and provide a base for information retrieval. Nevertheless, they often lack the strengths of the social networking tools and vice versa. Within this work we have developed a new concept called dynamic groups. Dynamic groups make creation, management, and usage of groups for communication and social networking easy. Nevetheless, for this to work the profile management system is required to handle more than just user information, it is required to provide users with control over their data and offer privacy and customisation capabilities. This article presents HomeCom, a model for profile management in dynamic groups. It also presents the solutions for making queries, as well as the solutions for privacy and customisation using multiple profiles and an integrated rule engine.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berlin: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology/Springer Verlag, 2009. p. 297-313
Series
Studies in Computational Intelligence, ISSN 1860-949X ; 189
National Category
Other Medical Engineering Media and Communication Technology
Research subject
Medical Engineering for Healthcare; Mobile and Pervasive Computing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-20482DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00179-6_18Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-62249192869Local ID: 56350f20-29b9-11de-adf6-000ea68e967bISBN: 978-3-642-00178-9 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-20482DiVA, id: diva2:993526
Note
Validerad; 2009; 20090415 (ysko)
2016-09-292016-09-292018-07-10Bibliographically approved