CARe: an ontology for representing context of activity-aware healthcare environments

Representing computational activities is still an open problem in the field of Activity-Aware Computing. In this paper, drawn from our experiences in developing activityaware applications in support of two populations: nurses working in hospitals and elders living independently; we defined the Context Aware Representational (CARe) model. CARe is an ontology that enables the representation and management of computational activities. We illustrate, through application scenarios, that the CARe ontology is flexible enough to enable developers to customize the computational representation of healthcare activities.