User Modeling and Adaptation for Daily Routines

The goal of this chapter is to bring light about how adaptation technologies can ease daily living for people with special needs. Assistive technologies, adaptive systems and context-aware applications are three wellestablished research areas whose findings can be interestingly merged. In particular, adaptation methods and techniques support the adaptation of existing software to better suit each user’s need. In the last years, the need of building applications that allow the inclusion of people with special needs in different fields has been emphasized. Along this chapter, we present different research works that contribute to the integration of this collective, by providing means to support either their personal development or the accomplishment of their daily tasks. The technological solutions chosen for this chapter are mainly related to three areas of application: activities of daily living, health and education. This chapter also summarizes the most widely used adaptation features and processes in this context. E. Martı́n ( ) Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos I, Escuela Técnica Superior en Ingenierı́a Informática, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, c/Tulipán s/n, 28933 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain e-mail: estefania.martin@urjc.es P.A. Haya Instituto de Ingenierı́a de Conocimiento, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Francisco Tomas y Valiente, 11, 28049 Madrid, Spain e-mail: pablo.haya@iic.uam.es R.M. Carro Departamento de Ingenierı́a Informática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Francisco Tomas y Valiente, 11, 28049 Madrid, Spain e-mail: rosa.carro@uam.es E. Martı́n et al. (eds.), User Modeling and Adaptation for Daily Routines: Providing Assistance to People with Special Needs, Human–Computer Interaction Series, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4778-7 1, © Springer-Verlag London 2013 1

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