Perspectives of human centered design and interoperability in ubiquitous home care for elderly people

In response to elderly people with independent living, healthcare services for elderly people is intended to be provided at homes, particularly for elderly with long-term care services and some disabilities. The health service can be facilitated utilizing the use of ubiquitous home care, equipped by connected technologies. Interoperability system has an important role in ubiquitous home care. By understanding the system interoperability requirements, the resulting ubiquitous home care system design becomes more effectively. Unfortunately, usability in designing ubiquitous home care is still less concern. Lack of usability concern will contribute in poorly designed of home care system for elderly. Elderly people will get difficulties in learning and operating the system. Poor designed system can create many human errors. Designing a user friendly ubiquitous home care system based on needs and preferences of elderly is such an important thing. The objective of this paper is to investigate a ubiquitous home care model for the elderly from the perspective of human centered design and interoperability. As a result, a well-designed home care for elderly people based on human centered approach will be able to encapsulate interoperability problems among medical devices.