An IoT-Aware Architecture for Smart Healthcare Coaching Systems

In recent decades the aging of the population has led to a change in the health field with special attention to the issue of home care and e-health. The aim is to provide different types of health care services to the patient's home rather than in hospital so improving the quality of life of patients by allowing them to stay in their own home environment. The healthcare sector is undergoing profound transformation thanks to the possibilities offered by the Internet of Things and new technologies, the mobile and wearable. The new model is oriented to the overall health of the patient, stimulated and implemented through a strong pro activities of the patient and realized using mobile devices and multi-channel technology. The idea is to introduce a set of functionalities in order to support the family or the patient, to act independently or to support existing treatments coaching systems. With this aim the paper proposes an architecture, based on a cognitive model, to realize a coaching system for daily living activities which relies on solving a problem as an human so modeling human cognition. The idea is to handle the process of acquiring skills as a transition from use of declarative knowledge of procedures that can be applied quickly and automatically in specific situations.