End-user development of activity-supporting services for smart homes

Independent living often requires assistive computing support to be tailored to the specific needs of each older adult. We propose a tool-based approach to allowing caregivers to define services for in-home daily living activities, leveraging their knowledge and expertise on the older adult they care for. This approach consists of two stages: 1) a wizard allows caregivers to define an assistive service, which supports aspects of a daily activity, specific to an older adult; 2) the wizard-generated service is uploaded in an existing smart home platform and interpreted by a dedicated component, carrying out the caregiver-defined service.