Disability centered approach in smart space management

The recent convergence of ubiquitous computing and context-aware computing has seen a considerable rise in interest in applications that exploit aspects of the contextual environment to enhance implicit user interaction, offer services, present information, tailor application behavior or trigger adaptation. However they are often insufficient to provide adequate environments for people with special needs and allow them to be an integral part of society. This paper presents our approach to enhance environment services to peoples with special needs. Particularly it highlights the data representation and implementation of this approach under a framework based on the Web Ontology Language OWL-DL. A prototype of this framework was integrated in a smart home demonstrator and tested with users under a laboratory conditions.