Enabling e-services based on affective exergaming, social media and the semantic web: A multitude of projects serving the citizen-centric vision for ICT in support of pHealth

摘要

Recent studies and workshops have stressed the fundamental importance of providing harmonised health and social care services that meet the extended needs of the individual, taking into account diversity in need, preferences, ability and support. For a real caring society, the notion of "information sharing" becomes clearly crucial when communication and interaction in health care is needed. This paper revisits recent funded projects undertaken by our team, in view of the so-called coordination of planned activities for elderly/disabled care and independent living support. Three development pillars are taken under consideration herein, namely, affective exergaming services for seniors/disabled, social media and the semantic web. Outputs from a multitude of projects are then used to provide evidence of how issues recently encountered under the so-called blue line dimensions are tackled; these are technological interoperability, semantic integration, modern interfaces, people needs/expectations and societal incentives. As the latter synthesize a con-temporary puzzle of personalised health care approach, this paper provides an innovative perspective of interlinking developments and outputs of research in view of improving healthcare.