The patient room of the future would be able to sense the needs and preferences of the patients and nursesand adapt itself accordingly by combining all the heterogeneous data offered by the different technologies.This goal can be achieved by developing a context-aware framework, which exploits and integrates the hetero-geneous data by utilizing a continuous care ontology. The existing ontology engineering methodologies arerather extreme in their choices to include domain experts. On the one hand, there are methodologies that onlydiscuss the scope, use and requirements of the ontology with the domain experts. On the other hand, thereare approaches in which the ontology is completely constructed by the domain experts by providing themwith user-friendly and collaborative tools. In this paper, a participatory ontology engineering methodologyis presented that ?nds a middle ground between these two extremes. The methodology actively involves so-cial scientists, ontology engineers and stakeholders. The stakeholders participate in each step of the ontologylife cycle without having to construct the ontology themselves or attribute a large amount of their time. Theapplicability of the methodology is illustrated by presenting the co-created continuous care ontology.
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