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
Objectives
The objective of the IMAGO project is to develop and test a navigation and positioning technology for the blind and visual impaired exceeding the quality, accuracy and applicability of positioning technology based on satellite data. Through this IMAGO technology blind and visual impaired should be able to increase their independence in mobility.
Expected results and impact
An image-based positioning and navigation system will be implemented at the functional prototype level and validated with users. Image generated data will be converted into tactile information to communicate effectively with blind and visual impaired users. This IMAGO based application will be most likely be a part of the I-Cane product series which apply electronics and tactile communication.
Furthermore the results will be used to explore new options in handling image based medical information.
Partners
Partners involved in the IMAGO project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Biomedical Systems bv | SME | The Netherlands | www.ab-sys.eu |
| RWTH Aachen, dept medical information UNIKLINIK | SME | Germany | www.ukaachen.de |
| Mediafiler | R&D | The Netherlands | www.mediafiler.nl |
| NVBS, Oogvereniging | End User | The Netherlands | www.oogvereniging.nl |
| Blindenzorg Licht & Liefde | End User | Belgium | www.blindenzorglichtenliefde.be |
| I-Cane social technologies | SME | The Netherlands | www.i-cane.org |
- Project name: IMAGO
- Website: www.aal-imago.eu
- Coordinator: I-Cane Social Technology BV
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2012
- Total budget: € 1.267.571
- Public contribution: € 793.668
Contact
Hans Slijp
E.: hans.slijp@i-cane.nl
T.: +31 (0)641182393
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