Also, preferences towards more pervasive ways to interact with such systems were identified.
The big challenge is to organize the distributed content, get the distributed multimedia content composed, produced and distributed to users in customized fashion according to users' preference, and their resource availabilities in pervasive environments.
This moves beyond providing 'systems-level-glue' to actively driving new functional possibilities through high-level, user-specified preferences, thus making the vision of pervasive, preventative and personalised healthcare a real possibility.
Less obviously, because it is more pervasive, is the economics of the trade and the preference of the customer for paying as little as possible.
Clearly, this becomes increasingly important in a pervasive health environment which needs to account for individual preferences, user mobility entailing interactions in completely new environments, and the fact that care interventions are event-based - requiring response on certain happenings.
A pervasive feature of contemporary health discourse [ 34], this latter principle underscored the preference of the consumer and clinicians' forums that any potential restriction to be based upon (individual) physiological markers rather than maternal age or cycle number.
In the development of ubiquitous and pervasive systems, it is understood that mechanisms are required to take adequate account of user preferences.
"Without pinpointing where you draw the line -- from the books I like to sexual preferences -- at some point people raise legitimate concerns that these technologies become so pervasive that they require some thinking on the other end about protecting the information being gathered by these devices," Mr. Hines said.
Diocletian's preference for autocratic government, combined with his self-image as a restorer of past Roman glory, presaged the most pervasive persecution in Roman history.
