Monitoring of patients suffering from special phobias exploiting context and profile information

Context acquisition and active context construction is key to delivering personalized services and ubiquitous medical treatment to patients suffering from special phobias, which are disorders caused by excessive anxiety. User profiles turn out to be a critical tool for this. This paper proposes an active context construction method, which exploits user profiles to resolve active contexts. Moreover, it analyzes context information investigating the parameters that play significant role in certain phobias. We also propose an ontology based context and profile information model and an active context-aware framework based on a standardized computing environment that adds the appropriate functionality to our approach, while handling security and interoperability issues. In order to show the significance of active context-awareness and user profiles in the psychology domain, a discussion regarding patients, medical stuff and personalized medical treatments is made.