Wieslawa Gryncewicz

Design and Assessment of User Interface Optimized for Elderly People. A Case Study of Actgo-Gate Platform.

In much of the world, particularly the developed world, there’s a growing aging population. Our work focuses on user experience and its impact on user interface design of web-based applications for elderly people. The paper presents the set of aging-centered user interface design guidelines. An initial collection of guidelines was first developed through an extensive review of the human-computer interaction and agingoriented literature and through applying a series of classification methods. Then the Authors proposed an assessment framework, which could be used as an universal tool to evaluate the web-based system according the user interfaces dedicated for elderly people. The detailed guidelines were grouped into 7 categories which were granted with appropriate importance weights. In the next section ActGo-Gate platform was presented as a web-based application dedicated for activating and supporting elderly people. Finally, the user interface of the system was evaluated according the proposed criteria.

Towards an Architecture of Electronic Service Market System - requirements analysis and evaluation.

The last decade was a time of a very successful growth of Electronic Markets (EMs). EM is an electronicallysupported system which is rather focused on selling physical goods. Electronic Service Market (ESM) is a special case of EM, focused on selling services. The raising business of running ESM seems to be the next possible evolution of the classic EM, and in last few years, several ESM projects were started by various organizations. This paper presents the essential Functional and Architectural Requirements needed in ESM system. The way of their transformation into the architecture of real-life application based on STCMBER meta-architecture was presented. The proposed architecture was validated in the series of pilot implementations performed in compliance with Consortium Research method.

Web Oriented Architectural Styles for Integrating Service e-Marketplace Systems

e-Marketplaces for services have faced many challenges in the last few years. Many factors, including user expectations, service specificity or technological development, influence the scope of requirements for integrated solutions on that market. Such an integration can help in creating the place in the cyberspace, where any user obtain an access to any service he or she actually needs. However, the integration isn’t an easy task, especially in such a diversified environment. That is why there is a need to find a suitable way of integrating the service e-marketplaces. Using loose coupling and WOA principles can make this task easier, what was proved during the real-life experiment, using the “consortium research” method. In the paper authors proposed the concept of integration of service e-marketplaces that bases on three foundations: user interface, data & business logic and security. In that context authors described the integration procedure which takes into account not only the classic software lifecycle, but also agile development principles. Having such foundations, verification of this procedure on the example from ActGo-Gate research project was performed. The high-level architecture of the project IT solution was presented and the way of integration of the offer synchronization process was described.

The model of delivering an IT product designed to activate and support senior citizens in Poland.

In the article the authors would like to find the most suitable model of delivering an IT product for elderly people designed to activate them and support their everyday activities. The article consists of a few parts. At the beginning the situation and forecasts for the population of elderly people in Poland are presented. Later the methodology of conducted research is described. In the next part the analysis of the factors influencing the activation and support of elderly people has been made. On the basis of the results of the PEST analysis key roles of stakeholders of the microand macroenvironment of the particular IT product are identified and their influence on the delivery model is explained. The core functions of each role are elicited and briefly described in the context of the IT product delivery model for the chosen target group.

Using Togaf for Building a National Implementation Strategy for E-Health Services and Technologies in Burundi

In order to better align existing and future ICT implementations in the health domain with the strategic options defined by the National Plan for Health Development, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Burundi initiated in 2014 the development of a national e-health enterprise architecture based on the TOGAF methodology. A first part of the development cycle consisted of a detailed analysis of regulatory documents and strategic plans related to the Burundian health system. In a second part, semi-structured interviews were organized with a representative sample of relevant MoH health structures. The study demonstrated the donor driven unequal distribution of hardware equipment over health administration components and health facilities. Internet connectivity remains problematic and few health oriented business applications found their way to the Burundian health system. Paper based instruments remain predominant in Burundi’s health administration. The study also identified a series of problems introduced by the uncoordinated development of health ICT in Burundi such as the lack of standardization, data security risks, varying data quality, inadequate ICT infrastructures, an unregulated e-health sector and insufficient human capacity. The results confirm the challenging situation of the Burundian health information system but they also expose a number of bright spots that provide hope for the future: a political will to reclaim MoH leadership in the health information management domain, the readiness to develop e-health education and training programs and the opportunity to capitalize the experiences with DHIS2 deployment, results based financing monitoring and hospital information management systems implementation.

Business Challenges and Technological Innovations Applied in the ICT Platform for Occupational Activation of Senior Citizens.

One of the key challenges for the next several years is to face, especially in highly developed countries, the problem of aging and its impact on the general quality of citizens’ life. Due to this trend, the Authors have presented a concept of ICT platform aimed at increasing the activity of people at retirement age. It is dedicated to members of local communities, can be used to support entrepreneurship, self-fulfilment and activation in the field of independent social life. During the realization of the project, the Authors have noticed the different business requirements of senior citizens. They were described in the article together with respective technological innovations which were implemented in the ActGo-Gate platform as an answer to these challenges and requirements.

Integrated Service E-Marketplace for Independent and Assisted Living – Business and Software Engineering Challenges

E-Marketplaces for services are governed by similar, but not the same business and technology principles as e-marketplaces for products. Additionally, in the particular case of e-marketplaces for senior citizens, service innovation must be requestor-focused. Immobile (residential, fixed) and mobile ambient (sensors, actuators) intelligence devices cover the spectrum of people monitoring (daily living, health status). On the society side, the aim is to enable elderly people, nearing or in retirements, healthy or unhealthy, to live socially-included and economically-active lives. On the IT side, the aim is to provide innovative systems and solutions embracing contemporary shifts of computing paradigm to service science, cloud computing, mobile connectivity, business processes, and societal participation. In this paper the Authors present the service e-marketplace as an ecosystem that is able to utilize the capital of elderly people with the whole added value they can contribute. The special attention is put on integration of elementary e-marketplace systems which provide senior citizens with the specific kinds of services. The importance of the integrator entity is explained and the concept of information system that plays such a role is presented. Selected business and technological implications of embarking on the development of a service e-marketplace platform for independent and assisted living are reported. The Authors discuss also plausible business models, identify major success factors, and present software engineering challenges underpinning development of such platforms.

Building а National Clinical Data Warehouse

Turkey has created an e-health vision along with the Health Transformation Program. In this framework, standard coding systems such as standard definitions of the institutions, databank of healthcare providers, standard disease, drug and medical supplies classifications have been developed and a national clinical data warehouse (Health-NET) was established. Health-NET is an integrated, safe, fast and expandable health information system which aims to improve efficiency and quality of health services by collecting all kinds of data produced in the health institutions in line with the standards and generating information adequate for all stakeholders of the collected data.

The Application of PEST Analysis to the Creation of the Profile of na IT Product Designed to Activate and Support Senior Citizens in Poland

The purpose of the paper is to create a profile of an IT product, using IT tools to collect and to analyse information and enable communication between elderly people to support and activate them. PEST Analysis method was used to determine different factors of influence on the domain of elderly people activation and support Having evaluated the factors and defined the product characteristics, the Authors focused on defining the profile of the IT product by referring the aforementioned characteristics to the structure of the product in the marketing understanding thereof.

Interoperability Within E-Health Arena

Integrated care that starts with patients taking care for their health, that includes truly multidisciplinary team approach to treating patients’ conditions and that utilizes enormous existing common knowledge in an efficient way, is one big step towards increasing healthcare provisioning quality while in the same time having healthcare cost under control. The foundation of the integrated care is timely availability of comprehensive information for all stakeholders within healthcare processes independent on their location and information system or application they use. The absolute precondition for this is ability of different IT systems / applications to exchange and display information in a way that is not only comprehensible to all stakeholders but also means the same to all of them. This ability is called interoperability. In this paper, overview of different interoperability aspects for electronic healthcare records / personal healthcare records is given. The main standards / initiatives are explained along with some challenges and possible way forward. Index Terms — Electronic Healthcare Record, Personal Healthcare Record, interoperability EN 13606, openEHR, archetype, HL7 CDA, IHE