PEER ASSIST
PeerAssist will provide an accessible, adaptable, multimodal and multilingual user interface and integrate behind the scenes the appropriate knowledge and context management and peer-to-peer ...
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The main objectives of the proposed PeerAssist project are the conceptualisation, design, implementation and demonstration of a flexible Peer-to-Peer (P2P) platform, which will allow elderly people (not necessarily familiar with ICT technologies) to build virtual communities dynamically based on interests and needs they share. The PeerAssist platform will facilitate establishing on demand ad-hoc communities with friends, family, neighbours, caregivers, facilitators, care providers, etc., based on shared interests and communication needs. The community building and the P2P interaction will be achieved using information extracted from peer roles, profiles and user modelling, context that describes the overall user environment, and the specific request initiated, or service provided, by a peer, all of which are represented semantically in a machine understandable form.
Expected results and impact
To the best of our knowledge there is no example for a context-aware system that can support elderly individuals in forming virtual ad-hoc communities in response to a user query, by evaluating the context of several elderly people with similar or complementary needs or interests. Moreover, a P2P approach will have high impact since it goes beyond the state of art solutions for elderly for three reasons: (i) P2P services constitute a social communication that goes beyond a service provider – client interaction; (ii) P2P services in many cases constitute exchanges between more than two parties and stimulates processes of community building; (iii) P2P services can be integrated into a network of added-value components of caregiver and technical service providers. The proposed solution is also in line with the modern practice of “triple-play”, a marketing term for the provisioning of the three services; high-speed Internet, television (Video on Demand or regular broadcasts) and telephone service over a single broadband connection. Finally, we will explore the spoken only user interaction.
Partners
Partners involved in the PeerAssist project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Athens (Communication Networks Lab) | R&D | Greece | www.cnl.di.uoa.gr |
| Seekda GmbH | Large Industry | Austria | www.seekda.com |
| InAccess Networks | Large Industry | Greece | www.inaccessnetworks.com |
| Warp Networks, S.L. | Large Industry | Spain | www.warp.es |
| Fundación Instituto Gerontologico Matia Country | R&D | Spain | www.ingema.es |
| Municipality of Athens Development Agency | End User | Greece | www.aeda.gr |
| Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck | R&D | Austria | www.sti-innsbruck.at |
- Project name: A P2P platform supporting virtual communities to assist independent living of senior citizens
- Website: www.cnl.di.uoa.gr/peerassist
- Coordinator: Prof. Lazaros Merakos Department of Informatics and Telecommunications University of Athens
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2010
- Total budget: € 2.147.151
- Public contribution: € 1.411.604
Contact
Dr. Nikos Passas
T.: +30 210 7275651
Objectives
The main objective of SAAPHO is to support Active Ageing by assisting seniors to participate in the self-serve society preserving and enhancing independence and dignity through the application of innovative ICT-based solutions. The system proposed is focused on boosting accessibility to a diverse number of healthcare, participation and security services by means of easy-to-use and easy-to-configure user interfaces. Thus, intelligent, intuitive and user-friendly tools stating on tactile screen-based fixed and mobile devices will allow and facilitate the access to these services, according to these three main axes of Active Ageing.
Expected results and impact
Key components of SAAPHO solution are the flexibility and the modularity to all European countries where the ‘needs’ that SAAPHO satisfies have been identified as such.
At the end SAAPHO basic components will be touch screens devices, NFC mobiles, NFC tags, home-security sensors, etc. All these components are available in all EU countries and no specific solution or customisation needs to be considered when deployed outside Spain or Slovenia. On the other hand with a successfully completed field trial the consortium expects a high interest from Health Care Providers (HCP’s) and public organisations around Europe.
Partners
Partners involved in the SAAPHO project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona Digital Centre Tecnològic | R&D | Spain | www.bdigital.org |
| L’Institut d’Envelliment | End User | Spain | www.envelliment.org |
| TECHNOSITE | Large Industry | Spain | www.technosite.es |
| Aibis Informationssysteme GmbH | SME | Germany | www.aibis.de |
| Zveza društev upokojencev Slovenije | End User | Slovenia | www.zdus-zveza.si |
| Cypak | SME | Sweden | www.cypak.com |
| Touchtech | SME | Sweden | www.touchtech.se |
| FhG – Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Fördering der angewandten Forschung e.V. - Institute für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration | R&D | Germany | www.izm.fraunhofer.de |
- Project name: Secure Active Aging: Participation and Health for the Old People (SAAPHO)
- Website: www.saapho-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Barcelona Digital Centre Tecnològic (BDIGITAL)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2011
- Total budget: € 3.072.388
- Public contribution: € 1.685.516, 37
Contact
Felip Miralles
E.: fmiralles@bdigital.org
T.: +34 93 553 45 40,
Jesús Fernández
E.: jfernandez@bdigital.org
T.: +34 93 553 45 40
Objectives
It is the key objective of this project to develop a new product which supports elderly in having more social contacts by using the social web. An easy to use user interface motivates the elderly to be more active and have more face-to-face communication.
The Target Vision of this project has therefore been determined as:
“A new economically, socially and culturally sustainable social interaction tool that enables elderly people to easily stay or get in touch with existing and new people of interest and which helps to find and participate in accessible local activities, health and well-being offers.”
Expected results and impact
The core result of the project is a product that supports the interaction of elderly people with the “Social Web“ and the integration of user oriented local services through an image based multimedia device that is adjusted to the needs of the target group. The focus is on easy to use, motivational and intuitive usability and the improvement of quality of life through increased social interaction and support of autonomy. Thereby, the user interface will be mainly based on pictures – in contrast to today’s text centred user interfaces in the Social Web and WIMP paradigm.
Partners
Partners involved in the SI-Screen project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Innovationsmanufaktur GmbH | SME | Germany | www.innovationsmanufaktur.com |
| Brainware & Data United | SME | Germany | www.brainware.ag |
| Bundeswehr University Munich | R&D | Germany | www.kooperationssysteme.de |
| VIOS Medien | End User | Germany | www.vios-medien.de |
| Porsche Design Studio | Large Industry | Austria | www.porsche-design.com |
| Helios | SME | Italy | www.helios.bz |
| Federació d'Associacions de Gent Gran de Catalunya | End User | Spain | www.gentgran.org |
| Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia | R&D | Spain | www.ibv.org |
| Tioman & partners | SME | Spain | www.tioman-and-partners.com |
| Servicios de Teleasistencia | Large Industry | Spain | www.teleasistencia.com |
- Project name: Social Interaction-Screen
- Website: www.si-screen.eu
- Coordinator: SportKreativWerkstatt
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2010
- Total budget: € 2.744.500
- Public contribution: € 1.714.100
Contact
Dr. Javier Gámez Payá
E.: jgp@innovationsmanufaktur.com / jgp@sportkreativwerkstatt.de
T.: +34 628 873 340
Objectives
The SOCIALIZE project will develop a hardware/software platform able to put in close contact the elder users with the community where they live, promote elderly social interaction and proactive involvement in the democratic development of their own community through the use of new technology implemented in the elderly day by day contest. SOCIALIZE technology will be accessible by different channel and in different geographical locations. Furthermore the SOCIALIZE mobile user interface will offer to the users to benefit of a subset of system functions through mobile devise.
Expected results and impact
The key principle of SOCIALIZE is to create a complete technological solution which fulfils effectively the general objectives of simplify the modalities with which elderly people have access to dedicated services provided from different devices (in particular mobile devices), with particular focus on the age group from 55 to 80 with a basic or already consolidated knowledge of Information Technologies and use of electronic devices, already accessing internet services and knowing at least basic computer fundamental because of their working experience or everyday job, living in a technology-served environment.
Partners
Partners involved in the SOCIALIZE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| IRIS CONSORTIUM SRL | R&D | Italy | www.irisconsortium.eu |
| Italian National Council of Research (ISTI-CNR) | R&D | Italy | www.isti.cnr.it |
| Fondazione Politecnico di Milano | R&D | Italy | www.fondazionepolitecnico.it |
| Consorzio Nazionale IDEE IN RETE | End User | Italy | www.ideeinrete.coop |
| Spring Techno GmbH & Co KG | SME | Germany | www.springtechno.de |
| Asociacion de Investigacion de la Industria Textil | R&D | Spain | www.aitex.es |
| Embedded Technologies Innovation Center s. coop. | SME | Spain | www.embedded-technologies.org |
| SUPSI TTHF - Telecom Telemetry and High Frequency | R&D | Switzerland | www.tthf.supsi.ch |
| Casa Santa Lucia | End User | Switzerland | www.casasantalucia.ch |
- Project name: Service OrIented Assisted Living InfrastucturE SOCIALIZE
- Website: ww.irisconsortium.eu
- Coordinator: IRIS Consortium srl, Italy
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2012
- Total budget: € 3.847.772,40
- Public contribution: € 1.956.381,00
Contact
Massimo Galante
E.: m.galante@irisconsortium.eu
T.: + 39 (0)835 345000
Objectives
The aim of AALuis is to facilitate the connection of different services to different types of user interfaces and thus to enable future users of AAL systems to use more services interacting in their preferred way. We will develop an open middle-ware layer that can be used for different AAL middle-ware platforms to connect different user interfaces to existing AAL Systems. This will also be demonstrated by developing new services and connecting them to newly developed, innovative user interfaces. The project will contribute to a wider usage of AAL Systems.
Expected results and impact
At the end of the project a framework will be provided with a set of user descriptions and suitable user profile settings for the user interaction, new user interfaces with adaptation possibilities based on user profiles, the open source AALuis user interface layer where those and other user interfaces can be connected to and a set of AAL Services. AALuis aims to significantly contribute to the freedom of choice for end-users of services and users interfaces. This will help to support de-stigmatisation of care products and put them on a self-serve continuum from ‘Comfort to Care to Cure’.
Partners
Partners involved in the AALuis project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| weTouch e.U. | SME | Austria | www.wetouch.at |
| CURE - Center for Usability Research & Engineering | R&D | Austria | www.cure.at |
| zoobe message entertainment GmbH | SME | Germany | zoobe.com |
| Verklizan BV | SME | Netherlands | www.verklizan.com |
| ProSyst Software GmbH | SME | Germany | www.prosyst.com |
| 50plus GmbH | End User | Austria | www.50plusgmbh.com |
| Hilfswerk Österreich | End User | Austria | www.hilfswerk.at |
| Philips Consumer Lifestyle B.V. | Large Industry | Netherlands | www.philips.com |
- Project name: AALuis, Ambient Assisted Living user interfaces
- Website: www.aaluis.eu
- Coordinator: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2011
- Total budget: € 3.238.624
- Public contribution: € 2.149.027
Contact
Christopher Mayer
E.: christopher.mayer@ait.ac.at
T.: T +43(0) 50550-4833
Objectives
Setting up an online platform, based on e-services, of thematic travels for the elderly persons. This platform will allow:
- Elderly people to select the best travel itinerary based on their needs and capabilities ;
- Tour operator to propose relevant thematic travel for elderly people and optimized services.
Then during the travel, the STIMULATE platform (through the mobile device) will offer aid and assistance to elderly people to facilitate and make better their travel.
Expected results and impact
IT solution that will be validated and market tested with the primary user segment (elderly), and to have validated a proposed business model with a detailed exploitation plan by the close of the project term. This exploitation plan will have identified the value chain, developed a preliminary business and marketing plan, and created a network of key potential future business partners (content providers, tour operators, etc.) to launch the STIMULATE service within one year of the project’s completion.
Partners
Partners involved in the STIMULATE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor | R&D | Luxembourg | www.tudor.lu |
| Cybercultus | SME | Luxembourg | www.cybercultus.lu |
| Technische Universitat Wien | R&D | Austria | www.tuwien.ac.at |
| Utrecht School of the Arts | R&D | Netherlands | www.hku.nl |
| Au fil des Cévennes | End User | France | |
| E-Seniors | End User | France | www.eseniors.eu |
| Europäische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Osterreich - EURAG | End User | Austria | www.eurag.at |
| Dessine-moi mon répit – DMMR Tourisme | End User | France | www.alloj.fr |
- Project name: Sustainable E² Mobility services for elderly persons – STIMULATE
- Website: www.stimulate-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2011
- Total budget: € 1.748.019
- Public contribution: € 1.290.000
Contact
Dr. Djamel KHADRAOUI
E.: djamel.khadraoui@tudor.lu
T.: +352 661 42 59 14
Objectives
The goal is to develop an attractive, intelligent, demand oriented and age-independent personal protection and caring system (2PCS device and infrastructure) without stigmatisation, restriction of freedom and permanent monitoring. The aim of the project is to improve the mobility, the information accessibility and the subjective as well as objective safety of elderly people. Another goal of the 2PCS system is to reduce the emotional and psychological burden for care persons as well as for family members and to improve mobility, safety and freedom along all relevant life-phases.
Expected results and impact
By empowering primary end-users 2PCS helps to overcome subjective insecurity, individual fears, disorientation, lack of relevant local based information and lack of communication abilities. 2PCS is adaptable to each person´s individual life-phase and provides three basic solutions:
- A business edition (for stationary care / assisted living / rehab.);
- A home edition (for ambulatory care / home care);
- A private edition (for leisure, travel and sports). The consortium has developed KPIs for the addressed solutions to focus on and monitor the qualitative, quantitative and economic criteria set.
Partners
Partners involved in the 2PCS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tertianum Stiftung | R&D | Switzerland | www.stiftung.tertianum.ch |
| European Academy of Bozen/ Bolzano | R&D | Italy | www.eurac.edu |
| Curena AG | SME | Switzerland | www.curena.ch |
| Humanocare GmbH | SME | Austria | www.humanocare.at |
| Mieloo & Alexander B.V. | SME | Netherlands | www.mielooandalexander.com |
| Odenwälder Kunststoffwerke Gehäusesysteme GmbH | SME | Germany | www.okw.com |
| RF-Embedded GmbH | SME | Germany | www.rf-embedded.eu |
| Privatklinik Villa Melitta – Casa Di Cura | SME | Italy | www.villamelitta.it |
- Project name: Personal Protection and Caring System – 2PCS
- Website: www.2pcs.eu
- Coordinator: University of Innsbruck Department for Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism, Austria
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2011
- Total budget: € 1.741.213
- Public contribution: € 1.114.679
Contact
Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Kurt Promberger
E.: kurt.promberger@uibk.ac.at
T.: +43-512-507-7600
Mag. Dr. Felix Piazolo
Objectives
The WayFiS project aims at improving the capability of seniors to plan, manage and execute travel and transportation projects at their own discretion by solving the problems elderly people cope with when trying to move in unknown outdoor environments, thus enabling them to take part in the self-serve society. The problems that are approached are mainly related to the access to information, sight problems, walking/motor abilities, cognitive abilities, associated health limitations, scarce availability of proper information (regarding transport adaptations, stations/stops accessibility) etc…
Expected results and impact
The product developed with WayFiS project will be constituted by a mobile interactive end-user application, delivered as a service, for elderly people that has been thought to be used with minimum intrusiveness for them and maximum benefit. First estimations of time to market (that may be modified after receiving users’ feedback) let us plan a needed period of 15 months after the finalisation of the project for the development of the first ready to market service. This final phase will consist in the development of the final product, final test users’ validation, marketing strategies, publication of the service in applications stores, advertising agreements.
Partners
Partners involved in the WayFiS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| HI-Iberia Ingenieria y Proyectos SL | SME | Spain | www.hi-iberia.es |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | www.qol.unige.ch |
| ArxIT SA | SME | Switzerland | www.arxit.com |
| CETIEX | End User | Spain | www.cetiex.es |
| Bay Zoltán Foundation For Applied Research, Institute for Applied Telecommunication Technologies | R&D | Hungary | www.bzlogi.hu |
| Teréz Anya Szociális Integrált Intézmény, Hévíz (HRS ) | End User | Hungary |
- Project name: WayFiS, Way Finding Seniors
- Website: www.wayfis.eu
- Coordinator: HI-IBERIA Ingeniería y Proyectos SL, Madrid, Spain
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2011
- Total budget: € 1.497.410
- Public contribution: € 962.526
Objectives
The aim of AmCo is to develop a new, innovative and integrated standard‑AAL-platform to enhance the quality of life and help all and especially elder people coping with every-day life, like bed‑linen‑changing‑, cleaning‑ or party‑services. Therefore smart living services are offered, adjusted to the needs of the individual. Communication should be endowed, advocated and inspirited, i.e. by easily video-conferencing and digital black boards. Furthermore the individual safety is increased, i.e. by automatic cooker-deactivation or in-house emergency calls. So the individual potentials can be brought into action.
Expected results and impact
Developing a new standard AAL-platform is the main purpose of the AmCo Project, therefore the AmCo Platform is the most remarkable result of the project. Another result will be the academic evaluation of the pattern-of-use categorised by demographic respectively geographic parameters, which can be consulted in future AAL projects. Furthermore the evaluation can be used to design service portfolios for new applications. Moreover the utilisation of the AmCo-platform will help elderly people living in their own homely ambience as long as possible with as little inpatient health care as possible.
Parners
Partners involved in the AmCo project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deutsches Rotes Kreuz | End User | Germany | www.drk-bitburg-pruem.de |
| FACO Immobilien GmbH | End User | Germany | www.faco.de |
| Fraunhofer-Institut für Software und Systemtechnik ISST | R&D | Germany | www.isst.fraunhofer.de |
| BEKO Engineering & Informatik AG Competence Center Smart Home Solutions | Large Industry | Austria | www.smarthome.ag |
| Wincasa AG Immobilien-Dienstleistungen | Large Industry | Switzerland | www.wincasa.ch |
| Competence Center Independent Living University of St. Gallen | R&D | Switzerland | il.iwi.unisg.ch |
- Project name: Ambient Concierge, AmCo
- Website: www.ambient-concierge.eu
- Coordinator: German Red Cross
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.11.2011
- Total budget: € 2.620.726,85
- Public contribution: € 1.427.109,00
Objectives
Care@Home is about enabling empowerment, wellness and social care services to the home of the elderly through interactive multimedia SmartTV. The idea is to enclose the social support system for the elderly and carry this as a personalised communication and service channel in their home. Whereby the technology provide a two-way communication for family, friends and care givers as well as entertainment and services for household, shopping and community information.
Expected results and impact
The progress beyond to the state-of-the-art of Care@Home project is that relevant technology regarding sensors, wireless networks, communication and multimedia is to be integrated in community driven products and services for the elderly, which are highly personalised and easy-to-use. Because of the easy accessible ‘design platform’ of Philips SmartTV, development new applications and services are in reach of many organisations and companies.
Partners
Partners involved in the Care@Home project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delft University of Technology | R&D | Netherlands | www.tudelft.nl |
| Philips Consumer Lifestyle | Large Industry | Netherlands | www.philips.com |
| Singular Logic Romania / INTRAROM | Large Industry | Romania | www.singularlogic.eu |
| Healthcare over Internet Protocol Community Interest Company | SME | United Kingdom | www.hoip.eu |
| The Building Research Establishment | R&D | United Kingdom | www.bre.co.uk |
| Mextal BV | SME | Netherlands | www.mextal.com |
| National Elderly Foundation | End User | Netherlands | www.ouderenfonds.nl |
| Living Lab Foundation | End User | Netherlands | www.livinglab.nl |
| Actimage | SME | Luxembourg | www.actimage.com |
| Bournemouth Borough Council | End User | United Kingdom | www.bournemouth.gov.uk |
- Project name: CARE services advancing the social interaction, health wellness and well-being of elderly people AT HOME Care@Home
- Website: www.careathome-project.eu
- Coordinator: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 21.11.2011
- Total budget: € 3.907.881,34
- Public contribution: € 2.033.585,95