TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluating the Applicability and Utility of an Elderly Care Ecosystem
AU - Baldissera, Thais A.
AU - Camarinha-Matos, Luis M.
N1 - The authors acknowledge the contributions of the Portuguese FCT-Strategic program UID/EEA/00066/2019 for providing partial financial support for this work.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - The improvement of life expectancy and the decline of total fertility rate worldwide have been key factors for the increasing percentage of the elderly population in the society. Aging comes with several personal needs, which require multiple care services specially tailored (personalized) for each individual. As these needs change throughout life, current services need to adapt (evolve) to reflect new requirements. Advances on collaborative networks for elderly care suggest the integration of services from multiple providers, encouraging collaboration as a way to provide better personalized and evolutionary services. This approach requires a support system to manage the personalized and evolving services for elderly care. In this paper, we present the Elderly Care Ecosystem (ECE) framework. ECE is a system designed to support the personalization and evolution of elderly care services following the principles of collaborative networks. To show the feasibility of our approach, we developed a prototype of ECE and evaluated it empirically using the technology acceptance model. Evaluation results are then presented and discussed.
AB - The improvement of life expectancy and the decline of total fertility rate worldwide have been key factors for the increasing percentage of the elderly population in the society. Aging comes with several personal needs, which require multiple care services specially tailored (personalized) for each individual. As these needs change throughout life, current services need to adapt (evolve) to reflect new requirements. Advances on collaborative networks for elderly care suggest the integration of services from multiple providers, encouraging collaboration as a way to provide better personalized and evolutionary services. This approach requires a support system to manage the personalized and evolving services for elderly care. In this paper, we present the Elderly Care Ecosystem (ECE) framework. ECE is a system designed to support the personalization and evolution of elderly care services following the principles of collaborative networks. To show the feasibility of our approach, we developed a prototype of ECE and evaluated it empirically using the technology acceptance model. Evaluation results are then presented and discussed.
KW - Collaborative business services
KW - Elderly Care Ecosystem
KW - ICT and ageing
KW - Technology acceptance model
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072971136&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-28464-0_32
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-28464-0_32
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85072971136
SN - 9783030284633
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 365
EP - 378
BT - Collaborative Networks and Digital Transformation - 20th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Camarinha-Matos, Luis M.
A2 - Afsarmanesh, Hamideh
A2 - Antonelli, Dario
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
T2 - 20th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2019
Y2 - 23 September 2019 through 25 September 2019
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