Objectives
The overall objective for COM’ON s to develop, test and deploy a digital platform and associated services for public transportation, which offer coping support to older persons – having mild to moderate problems with moving around. COM’ON will enhance their sense of self-efficacy through:
- Confidence and autonomy, through specific mobility information;
- Competence, by designing interfaces reflecting mental resources;
- Security and safety through access to assistance.
Expected results and impact
The COM’ON platform and associated services will increase user’s experience of independence, confidence and save resources through the increased use of public transport. Family members will be able to support their relatives, and encourage them to maintain their mobility and increase their self-reliance. Help elderly to stay longer in their own homes, reducing public sector cost deriving from nursing homes etc.
Partners
Partners involved in the COM’ON project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copenhagen Living Lab | SME | Denmark | www.copenhagenlivinglab.com |
| Xtel | SME | Denmark | www.xtel.dk |
| ACTIMO | SME | Denmark | www.actimo.dk |
| Laurea University of Applied Sciences | R&D | Finland | www.laurea.fi |
| Nearparent Oy | SME | Finland | www.nearparent.com |
| Enthoven Associates | SME | Belgium | www.yellowwindow.com |
| Concept Factory | SME | Luxembourg | www.conceptfactory.lu |
| I2CAT | SME | Spain | www.i2cat.net |
| City of Luxembourg | End User | Luxembourg | www.vdl.lu |
- Project name: Confident motion, COM’ON
- Website: www.comon.lu
- Coordinator: Copenhagen Living Lab, Denmark
- Duration: 28 Months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2012
- Total budget: € 2.698.711
- Public contribution: € 1.444.665
CONFIDENCE
CONFIDENCE offers a location-augmented voice channel (care persons are able to assist lost patients with voice instructions in order to bring them back to well-known places), a virtual video channel ...
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The aim of CONFIDENCE is to develop a community-based mobility safeguarding assistance service for people suffering from mild to moderate dementia. CONFIDENCE combines “assistive technologies” with “personal help”. The CONFIDENCE service is built around a “virtual companion” providing different levels of assistance, depending on the situational needs of the patient and the degree of orientation loss. The service is supplemented with personal help from family members, staff of home care agencies and/or trusted volunteers.
Expected results and impact
From a technical point of view, the expected outcome of CONFIDENCE is a mobility safeguarding assistance service running on a smartphone. It consists of a location-augmented voice service, a virtual video service, a location tracking service and a mobile community service. The technical solution is supplemented by an innovative, cooperative service model, which involves all relevant stakeholders of home care. CONFIDENCE aims at designing, implementing, testing and validating the technical solution as well as the service model.
Partners
Partners involved in the CONFIDENCE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H. | R&D | Austria | www.salzburgresearch.at |
| iHomeLab, Hochschule Luzern | R&D | Switzerland | www.ihomelab.ch |
| Raiffeisenlandesbank Kaernten -Rechenzentrum und Revisionsverband, reg. Gen.m.b.H. | Large Industry | Austria | www.raiffeisen-rechenzentrum.at |
| ilogs mobile software GmbH | SME | Austria | www.ilogs.at |
| Presence displays bv. | SME | Netherlands | www.yooom.com |
| Ralph Eichenberger Szenografie Cinematografie Fotografie | SME | Switzerland | www.szenografie.com |
| Hilfswerk Salzburg | End User | Austria | www.hilfswerk.at/salzburg |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| Ana Aslan International Foundation/Academy of Ageing | End User | Romania | www.brainaging.ro |
| Swisscom Participations Ltd | Large Industry | Switzerland | www.swisscom.com |
- Project name: Mobility Safeguarding Assistance Service with Community Functionality for People with Dementia – CONFIDENCE
- Website: www.confidence4you.eu
- Coordinator: Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H.
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2012
- Total budget: € 2.820.158
- Public contribution: € 1.526.321,49
Objectives
Taking into account, that outdoor activities become a more and more important part of the lives of elderly people it stands for a self-determined life to be able to practise outdoor activities irrespective of one’s age and constitution. Outdoor activities contribute largely to the health and well-being of the elderly and improve their quality of life.
The demographic changes in the next years show a significant growth of the elderly population within Europe. A commercial roll out of the developed system can contribute to a better health, enabling elderly people to keep up their mobility.
Expected results and impact
The expected result is a system which is deployed as an app on selected, outdoor-suitable mobile devices. The app includes a hiking guide, high quality route information and basic safety system, which constantly checks the surrounding conditions (weather, daylight) for critical situations. The app is connected to an emergency centre which is notified in critical situations and, based on the location information, can send out rescue teams. Notifications can be triggered manually or using a built-in tracking tool, which works on reaching preliminary defined GPS control points along the tour.
Partners
Partners involved in the DOSSy project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of St. Gallen | R&D | Switzerland | www.iwi.unisg.ch |
| University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen | R&D | Switzerland | www.fhsg.ch |
| Curena AG | SME | Switzerland | www.curena.ch |
| Augmentra Ltd. | SME | United Kingdom | www.viewranger.com |
| Bergverlag Rother GmbH | SME | Germany | www.rother.de |
| German Red Cross Herten | End User | Germany | www.drk-herten.de |
| Schweizer Alpen Club (SAC) | End User | Switzerland | www.sac-cas.ch |
- Project name: Digital Outdoor And Safety System (DOSSy)
- Website: www.dossy-aal.com
- Coordinator: University of St. Gallen, Institute of Information Management
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.08.2012
- Total budget: € 1.568.577,10
- Public contribution: € 733.757,90
Objectives
The proposal aims at enabling integral outdoor and indoor localisation and mobility services for elderly people with age-related sensory (visual, auditory) and cognitive (memory) impairments that help them in their daily routine activities far from home. Special attention will be given to key activities for their autonomous living (e.g. shopping, banking) and with a particular societal benefit (e.g. accompanying grandchildren); procuring active and convenient engagement of all relevant stakeholders (relatives, health-social-security services, establishments).
Expected results and impact
The aim to create an open platform in E-MOSION highlights the need and wish of the consortium to be compatible to or even better reuse other open AAL platforms, such as universAAL. As AIT is partner in universAAL there will be the possibility for a close collaboration and thus the chance to enable a European AAL ecosystem for the creation of market solutions. E-MOSION offers a suite of services delivered in an innovative business model that offers an unprecedented value proposition. Exploitation and utilisation is possible on two fronts – businesses and primary users.
Partners
Partners involved in the E-MOSION project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTEGRASYS | SME | Spain | www.integrasys-sa.com |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Noldus Information Technology BV | SME | Netherlands | www.noldus.com |
| INERTIA Technology | SME | Netherlands | inertia-technology.com |
| MATTERSOFT | SME | Finland | www.mattersoft.fi |
| Unie KBO | End User | Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
- Project name: E-MOSION: Elderly friendly MObility Services for Indoor and Outdoor sceNarios
- Website: www.emosion-project.eu
- Coordinator: Integrasys S.A. (Spain)
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2012
- Total budget: € 2.413.672,80
- Public contribution: € 1.538.170,00
Objectives
EXO-LEGS is aimed at developing lower body mobility exoskeletons for helping people move around to perform normal daily living tasks. The motions include tasks such as standing up, sitting down, straight walking on flat ground, stepping over objects, walking on soft and uneven ground, walking up- and down-stairs, etc. EXO-LEGS will develop theoretical and modular frameworks able to realise prototype devices that can be useful for assisting human mobility. Basic, Standard and Deluxe exoskeleton prototypes (half- and full- models) will be designed, developed and tested in the five target EU countries.
Expected results and impact
The project targets research to AAL scenarios requiring simple, standard and difficult mobility solutions for maximising the impact so that logical commercialisation can follow together with making advances in key scientific areas. Commercial exoskeleton products which are reliable, affordable and compliant to the ISO 13482 safety standard for exoskeletons will be focused upon. Once these solutions are available, other user segments will be able to benefit, namely, handicapped persons, overweight people, etc to increase the impact further. An EXO-LEGS Consortium Agreement has been signed for commercialising in both medical and non-medical sectors.
Partners
Partners involved in the EXO-LEGS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Gävle | R&D | Sweden | www.hig.se |
| Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | R&D | Germany | rob.ipr.kit.edu |
| Universidad Politécnica de Cartegena | R&D | Spain | www.upct.es |
| Chas A Blatchford & Sons Limited | SME | United Kingdom | www.blatchford.co.uk |
| Hocoma AG | SME | Switzerland | www.hocoma.ch |
| GIGATRONIK Technologies GmbH | SME | Germany | www.gigatronik.de |
| MRK Systeme GmbH | SME | Germany | www.MRK-Systeme.de |
| Proyecto Control Montaje, S.L. | SME | Spain | www.pcmsl.com |
| Mobile Robotics Sweden AB | SME | Sweden | www.mobile-robotics.com |
| Gävle kommun and other Gävleborg partners | End User | Sweden | www.gavle.se |
- Project name: Exoskeleton Legs for Elderly Persons (EXO-LEGS)
- Website: www.exo-legs.org
- Coordinator: University of Gävle, Sweden
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2012
- Total budget: €4.559.117
- Public contribution: €2.776.346
Objectives
The main objective of GameUp is to develop a platform for social and exercise games to reduce physical and motivational barriers of elderly people’s mobility.
The main contribution of the GameUp products and services is to sustain mobility of senior citizens, prolonging the time they can live autonomously in their preferred home environment and consequently enhance quality of life.
Examples are games or game-based technology that will help to better the balance and leg strength of the users. Social aspects and good feedback will be used as motivation.
Expected results and impact
Products and services will include social exergames that for instance will help balance and leg strength, and the games will be adaptable for physical limitations that are normal amongst elderly such as deteriorating sight and hearing, problems with grip, etc. The games will also be adapted to the elderly’s needs of taking the time they need. The platform developed will be social so that the users can play together – but maybe not simultaneously. The main impacts of the project are new fun tools for elderly to maintain mobility to stay at home longer, and a new type of useful products for elderly.
Partners
Partners involved in the GameUp project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ibernex | Large Industry | Spain | www.ibernex.es |
| UniversityofSeville | R&D | Spain | www.us.es |
| Klinik Valens | End user | Switzerland | www.klinik-valens.ch |
| Northern Research Institute | R&D | Norway | www.itek.norut.no |
| Cyberlab.org as | SME | Norway | www.cyberlab.org |
| Tromsøysund menighet | End user | Norway | www.ishavskatedralen.no |
| O-Berri | End user | Spain |
- Project name: Game-based mobility training and motivation of senior citizens – GameUp
- Website: www.gameupproject.eu
- Coordinator: IBERNEX Ingeniería S.L.
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2012
- Total budget: € 2.226.345,00
- Public contribution: € 1.041.306,00
Contact
Antonio Remartinez
E.: antonio.remartinez@ibernex.es
T.: +34976794226
HAPPY WALKER
Until now, the technical solutions to support the older adults in their mobility do not address their needs, wishes and capacities. The innovation in this project consists of the development of an ...
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The objective of Happy Walker is to develop an ICT-based solution, specifically targeted to the elderly people, that sustain the ability of the elderly people to use different types of transportation and their mobility.
Expected results and impact
The proposed mobility oriented services will help the older adults by:
- stimulating an active life style;
- enhancing the outdoor safety (features such as for example drop-off detection and finding an accessible and friendly walking/driving route);
- emergency alarming and localisation;
- providing travel planning and support over heterogeneous transportation means;
including taking into account the direct surrounding neighbourhood, life-style and self-management, combined with preparation and supervision functions for involved formal and informal caregivers and optimising the user-friendliness and usefulness by filtering out useful information.
Partners
Partners involved in the HappyWalker project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| TNO | R&D | The Netherlands | www.tno.nl |
| Vilans | R&D | The Netherlands | www.vilans.nl |
| Verhaert | SME | Belgium | www.verhaert.com |
| Zorgpalet | End User | The Netherlands | www.zorgpaletbaarnsoest.nl |
| Linkcare | SME | Spain | www.linkcarehs.es |
| Eljakim | SME | The Netherlands | www.eljakim.nl |
| I+ | SME | Italy | www.i-pui.it |
| CIBEK | SME | Germany | www.cibek.de |
| UUAS/HU | R&D | The Netherlands | www.hu.nl |
| Vision | SME | Spain | www.visionlocalizacion.com |
- Project name: Happy Walker
- Website: www.happyassistedliving.com
- Coordinator: TNO, The Netherlands
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2012
- Total budget: € 3.028.000
- Public contribution: € 2.063.000
I’CITYFORALL
The goal of I’CityforAll is to design “Audio Aged sensitive” ICT systems enhancing self-confidence, mobility, safety, for a better social and mental (overall) well being. The targeted ...
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The I’CityForAll project aims at enhancing the sense of security and self-confidence of presbycusic people whose hearing degradation increases with age. Two mobility environments are considered: public confined spaces and urban space. The ICT solutions consist of intelligent loudspeakers for better intelligibility of vocal messages in public confined spaces and systems embedded in vehicles for better localisation of urban sound alarms like ambulances, police cars, fire trucks, etc., as the presbycusis alters the perception of distance and the direction of sound source.
Expected results and impact
Three demonstrators will be presented at the end of the I’CityForAll project:
- Assessing Intelligibility product based on the I’CityForAll Objective quality criteria of vocal announces that will allow public companies such as Museums or transportation companies to assess their needs.
- Loudspeakers dedicated to large spaces (i.e. railway stations, museums…), integrating the global processing chain of emission, correction and generation of vocal announces with various ambient noises.
- Vehicles equipped with automatic real-time presbycusis equalisation and alarm localisation systems
Partners
Partners involved in the I’CityForAll project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives | R&D | France | www-list.cea.fr |
| Université Paris Descartes | R&D | France | www.lipade.mi.parisdescartes.fr |
| Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile | R&D | Italy | www.robotica.casaccia.enea.it |
| Technische Universität München | R&D | Germany | www.tum.de |
| Centro Ricerche FIAT | R&D | Italy | www.crf.it |
| Centre d’Expertise National des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication pour l’autonomie | End User | France | www.centich.fr |
| Active Audio | SME | France | www.activeaudio.fr |
| EPFL - Laboratoire d’Électromagnétisme et d’Acoustique | R&D | Switzerland | http://infoscience.epfl.ch |
- Project name: Age Sensitive ICT Systems for Intelligible City For All, I’CityForAll
- Website: www.icityforall.eu
- Coordinator: Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2012
- Total budget: € 5.082.399,00
- Public contribution: € 2.409.300,36
Contact
Sylvie Ghalila
E.: Sylvie.ghalila@cea.fr
T.: +33 (0)1 69 08 02 32 | F. +33 (0)1 69 08 18 19
Objectives
The objective of Mylife is to support independence for older people with reduced cognitive function by giving them access to simple and intuitive services that are adapted to their individual needs and wishes. The ambition of the Mylife project is to provide network-based access to, and management of, commercially and/or freely available software, and activities managed from the secondary end-uses’ locations enabling the primary end-users to access Mylife applications remotely via the internet. The final service offered by Mylife supports time-orientation, communication and recreational activities.
Expected results and impact
The expected outcome of Mylife for the primary end-users will be (1) increased independence and well-being in home environments, (2) decreased social isolation and thereby increased participation, (3) stimulation of cognitive abilities, and (4) self-services based on Internet-enabled applications. For the secondary end-users, the outcomes are: (1) simple and inspiring user instructions and (2) reduced stress caused by worries, repeated questions and calls, as well as passivity. Mylife will also create new business opportunities for SMEs and enable a greater uptake of electronic self-services.
Partners
Partners involved in the Mylife project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karde AS | SME / Large Industry | Norway | www.karde.no |
| Tellu AS | SME / Large Industry | Norway | www.tellu.no |
| Forget-me-not AS | SME / Large Industry | Norway | www.forgetmenot.no |
| Sidsel Bjørneby Sole Proprietorship | SME / Large Industry | Norway | www.sidselb.no |
| Housing21 | End User | United Kingdom | www.housing21.co.uk |
| Trent Dementia Services and Development Centre | End User | United Kingdom | www.trentdsdc.org.uk |
| Berlin Institute for Social Research | R&D | Germany | www.bis-berlin.de |
- Project name: Multimedia technology for independence and participation for people with dementia
- Website: www.mylife-project.org
- Coordinator: Karde AS, Norway
- Duration: 20 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2011
- Total budget: € 1.059.973
- Public contribution: € 620.335
Objectives
- OsteoLink was successfully created and launched in 2010
- Osteolink went live in Austria and Sweden in December 2010
- A total of 1,900 unique users from 16 countries (02-04/2011)
- OsteoLink provides a range of educational materials that is scientifically validated and credible.
- To date, 108 unique media articles have featured OsteoLink and the survey data. These have reached audiences throughout Europe and Australia.
- 13 IOF member societies from 9 countries are actively engaged in the pilot programme.
- In 2011, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Portugal, Spain, Greece and France will go live.
Expected results and impact
- Create the first online and in-person osteoporosis community that operates at the global and country level, addressing the educational and support needs of osteoporosis patients in Europe and Australia
- Provide tools for better communication for people with osteoporosis and health professionals to help improve adherence
- Encourage better dialogue among people with osteoporosis, healthcare professionals, friends and families
- Inform the osteoporosis community about OsteoLink and its role in improving communication
Partners
Partners involved in the OsteoLink project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Division of Bone Diseases | R&D | Switzerland | www.unige.ch |
| International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) | SME | Switzerland | www.iofbonehealth.org |
| Amgen (Europe) GmbH | Large Industry | Switzerland | www.Amgen.com |
| Hill & Knowlton | SME | United Kingdom | www.Hill&Knowlton.co.uk |
| Action for Healthy Bones (AHB) | End User | Austria | www.aktiongesundeknochen.at |
| Syzygy | SME | United Kingdom | www.syzygy.net |
- Project name: OsteoLink (T-Break)
- Website: http://www.osteolink.org/
- Coordinator: International Osteoporosis Foundation – Switzerland
- Duration: 20 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2010
- Total budget: € 1.536.668
- Public contribution: € 411.254
Contact
Victoria Monti
E.: vmonti@iofbonehealth.org
T.: +41 22 994 01 22
Laurence Triouleyre
E.: ltriouleyre@iofbonehealth.org
T.: +41 22 994 01 22