Objectives
AWARE project aims at developing a Social Network totally designed basing on the requirements and the needs of the final users, and that will be integrated in the final platform with all the other modules.
This social network will be built implementing MAHARA, a stand-alone open-source system that can be integrated into a wider virtual learning framework such as MOODLE. MAHARA present improved capabilities for Social Networks, providing social networking facilities that can be easily interfaced with MOODLE.
This way these technological tools, designed under needs and requirements of the final users, will enable both social relationships between the elderly people and the creation of an inter-generational learning virtual environment between the older workers, the younger workers and the retired workers. This will contribute to close the gap between generations and to the integration of the ageing population through wide life learning strategies and by keeping connected different generations.
Expected results and impact
The advantages and benefits expected from the development of a platform with the described features are the following ones:
- Maintain the elder person active after retirement, hence promoting an active ageing;
- Create web communities of retired workers to share experience, skills and expertise;
- Respond to current trends of the Ageing workforce, by maintaining mentally and economically active the elder person;
- Support the companies during the whole retirement process.
The benefits derived from the implementation of this technology will result in the possibility of improving expertise transfer as well as maintaining the relationship with the retired worker.
Partners
Partners involved in the AWARE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia | R&D | Spain | www.ibv.org |
| Calvet, Vila & Arriaga Consulting, S.L. | SME | Spain | www.cvaconsulting.com |
| Ayuntamiento de Gandía | Other | Spain | www.gandia.org |
| Unión Democrática de Pensionistas y Jubilados de España | End User | Spain | www.mayoresudp.org |
| Media Touch | SME | Italy | www.mediatouch.it |
| Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD), Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft | R&D | Germany | www.arbeitswissenschaft.de |
- Project name: Ageing Workforce towards an Active Retirement
- Website: www.aware.ibv.org
- Coordinator: Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia (IBV)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2010
- Total budget: € 1.373.875
- Public contribution: € 747.330
Contact
Alberto Ferreras Remesal
E.: alberto.ferreras@ibv.upv.es
T.: +34 96 387 91 60
Objectives
The main goal of the proposed project is the development of an ICT-based Virtual Collaborative Social Living Community for Elderly (Co-LIVING) people.
The solution will utilise and scale up the successfully developed FP6 mPower open source middle-ware platform to be applicable to the elderly social community interaction field. Co-LIVING target group is the big group of healthy elderly or with light physical or psychological health problems who are self-supporting, able to move around, and can still contribute actively.
Two pilots, in the Netherlands and Norway, representing the two different use cases, will be carried out in which the Co-LIVING solution will be assessed and validated by considering its social, economical and psychological dimensions.
Expected results and impact
The approach used by Co-LIVING takes a proactive action providing a solution for elderly people at the very early stages of capabilities degradation, when they are still capable to have a non-assisted independent living.
Co-LIVING solution contributes to the advancement of knowledge in the elderly care field by the:
- development of an innovative social community model;
- development of highly innovative ICT based services;
- creation of innovative knowledge in the area of personalised support for the elderly giving new insight in how integrated personalised ICT services can support day to day activities and improve quality of life for each one of the related stakeholders (that is, not only the elderly bus also their families, friends, etc)
Partners
Partners involved in the Co-LIVING project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orbis Medical and Healthcare Group | End User | Netherlands | www.orbisconcern.nl |
| Philips Electronics Nederland B.V | Large Industry | Netherlands | www.philips.nl |
| University of Cyprus | R&D | Cyprus | www.cs.ucy.ac.cy |
| Stiftelsen SINTEF | R&D | Norway | www.sintef.no |
| Instituto Pedro Nunes - Associação Para A Inovação E Desenvolvimento Em Ciência E Tecnologia | R&D | Portugal | www.ipn.pt/si/initapplication.do |
| Inovamais S.A | SME | Portugal | www.inovamais.eu |
| Citard Services LTD | SME | Cyprus | citard-serv.com |
| Andago Ingeniería S.L. | SME | Spain | www.andago.com |
| Trondheim Kommune | End User | Norway | www.trondheim.kommune.no |
- Project name: Virtual Collaborative Social Living Community for Elderly
- Website: www.project-coliving.eu
- Coordinator: Orbis Medical and Healthcare Group, R. Beumers
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 13.10.2010
- Total budget: € 3.888.588
- Public contribution: € 2.706.921
Contact
J.U. Kemmerling
E.: j.kemmerling@orbisconcern.nl
T.: +31620857838
Objectives
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ALICE will research, develop and integrate a set of ICT based services into the existing TV set, allowing elderly people to enjoy experiences of communication and social interaction based on ICT.
The objectives of ALICE can be summarised as follows:
- Investigate current communication practices of elderly people. Simplify electronic communication based on novel and existing technology in fields like interactive TV and video conferencing. Optimise visual user interfaces and related input devices for specific use by elderly people
- Develop, test and comprehensively evaluate pilot Web applications, focusing on social networking and “togetherness”;
- Investigate economic issues in order to guarantee maximum commercial impact of the research results.
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Expected results and impact
Beyond processing a successful pilot trial in The Netherlands involving 100 people, there is the strategy to further develop and improve the ALICE system and to expand the exploitation possibilities.
Providing the ALICE system to a targeted share of approx. 8% of the elderly people in the Netherlands; including the target group of handicapped people in the Netherlands and exploiting the ALICE application within other countries – starting from Europe and widening to other parts of the world by using already existing partnerships.
Partners
Partners involved in the ALICE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| AT4 wireless S.A. | Large Industry | Spain | www.at4wireless.com |
| JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH | R&D | Austria | www.joanneum.at |
| Mens en Zorg BV | End User | Netherlands | www.mezorg.nl |
| ThuisConnect BV | SME | Netherlands | www.thuisconnect.nl |
| Telecare GmbH | SME | Austria |
- Project name: Advanced Lifestyle Improvement system & new Communication Experience
- Website: www.aal-alice.eu
- Coordinator: Kurt Majcen – Institute for Information and Communication Technologies JOANNEUM RESEARCH
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2010
- Total budget: € 1.784.340
- Public contribution: € 1.114.126
Contact
Kurt Majcen
E.: kurt.majcen@joanneum.at
T.: +43 316 876-1636
Objectives
The objective of the project Adaptable Ambient LIving ASsistant (ALIAS) is the product development of a mobile robot system that interacts with elderly users, monitors and provides cognitive assistance in daily life, and promotes social inclusion by creating connections to people and events in the wider world. The system is designed for people living alone at home or in care facilities such as nursing or elderly care homes. ALIAS is embodied by a mobile robot platform with the capacity to monitor,interact with and access information from on-line services, without manipulation capabilities.
Expected results and impact
- Easy-to-use and fault tolerant human-machine interface on mobile robot platform
- Integration framework on the basis of mobile platform approved by German Technical Inspection Agencies (TÜV) and meeting European Directives
- Innovative web services for elderly to discover new contacts and to sustain meaningful online relationships;
- Strong user-group inclusion through all design and development phases
- High market potential assured by 3 business partners in the consortium
Partners
Partners involved in the ALIAS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technische Universität München | R&D | Germany | www.tum.de |
| Technische Universität Ilmenau | R&D | Germany | www.tu-ilmenau.de |
| MetraLabs GmbH | SME | Germany | www.metralabs.com |
| Cognesys GmbH | SME | Germany | www.cognesys.de |
| Eurecom | R&D | France | www.eurecom.fr |
| G-tec medical engineering GmbH | SME | Austria | www.gtec.at |
| Fraunhofer IDMT | R&D | Germany | http://www.idmt.fraunhofer.de |
| pme Familien Service GmbH | End User | Germany | www.familienservice.de |
| Youse GmbH | SME | Germany | www.youse.de |
- Project name: The Adaptable Ambient Living Assistant
- Website: www.assistive-technologien.de
- Coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Wallhoff, Assistive Technologien, Germany
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2010
- Total budget: € 4.022.075
- Public contribution: € 2.529.165
Contact
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Wallhoff
E.: frank.wallhoff@jade-hs.de and wallhoff@tum.de
T.: 0441/7708 – 3738
Objectives
The overall project objective of the Rehabilitation Gaming System (RGS) is to develop and validate a novel and highly innovative ICT Virtual Reality (VR) tool for the rehabilitation of motor deficits of the upper extremities after a brain lesion due to stroke. The specific project objectives are as follows:
- Development and integration of the hardware and software for the RGS including the rehabilitation scenarios, social network capability, user interface and the information management system.
- Development of user centred and neuroscientifically grounded diagnostic and training scenarios;
- Evaluation of the clinical impact of the RGS at the functional and neuronal ;
- Gathering of user requirements involving all the stakeholders using the RGS system and evaluation of the usability and accessibility of RGS.
Establish the theoretical and empirical foundation of the rehabilitation and diagnostics methods implemented in the system.
Expected results and impact
The RGS will directly improve the Quality of Life of the increasing number of Elderly people in need of rehabilitation for motor deficits of their upper extremities; and improve accessibility to healthcare therapy/home assistance and to a novel and highly innovative ICT based product.
We are now listing the most important aspects:
- Increase autonomy. The RGS allows the Elderly person to design their own rehabilitation schedule and work as much as they want at home, in coordination with other everyday life activities and in consultation with their health care provider. As explained in the introduction of this section, the Elderly person will have access to tele-rehabilitation, in the sense that the exercises will be done from home and the Secondary End User (healthcare provider) will be able to remotely follow their progress. If there are any abnormalities during their rehabilitation, an alert will automatically be sent to the healthcare provider.
- Empowerment and more equal access to services. Additionally, the low cost of the system renders it an affordable solution for the target population of end users.
- Accessibility, Usability and End User acceptance. The RGS is designed thinking about the End User and their needs, i.e. rehabilitation of upper extremities motor skill deficits, cognitive skills, usability and unfamiliarity for most End Users with the use of PCs.
- End User impact and Social relevance. The RGS will also allow elderly people to be direct users of technologies still in their initial market deployment phase. Furthermore, the RGS will give them access to a new world of VR computer based training scenarios.
- Access to ICT and an ICT novel product. The Rehabilitation Gaming System (RGS) will allow the elderly person to take advantage of a novel ICT based product that allows the End User to efficiently manage their chronic long term condition by having access to individualised rehabilitation therapy from home in the shape of a VR based training.
Partners
Partners involved in the RGS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heinrich Heine Universität | R&D | Germany | www.uni-duesseldorf.de |
| Guger Technologies OEG | R&D / SME | Austria | www.gtec.at |
| Fund. Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron | R&D / End User | Spain | www.vhir.org |
| Tyromotion | R&D / SME | Austria | www.tyromotion.com |
| Fundació IMIM | End User / R&D | Spain | www.imim.es |
| Fundació TIC Salut | End User | Spain | www.ticsalut.cat |
- Project name: Rehabilitation Gaming System
- Website: http://rgs-project.upf.edu
- Coordinator: Universitat Pompeu Fabra – UPF, Spain
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2009
- Total budget: € 2.291.001
- Public contribution: € 1.925.660
Objectives
3D Simulation Platforms
The users will be represented as avatars, since the accessibility, usability and navigation will be central points. The target group is mainly people from 60 to 75 years old without specific cognitive problems.
The operative objectives of the project will be:
- To develop a fully functional 3-dimensional computer simulation platform
- To design and create the content of the platform on 3D environment that will constitute the functionalities, visual aspect and interaction possibilities
- To include existing tools and applications (interoperability), through new adaptations to be used in the 3D virtual environment
- To validate the final solution in pilot testings in two EU countries to ensure the reliability, usability and adaptability to the final users needs.
- To develop a detailed exploitation plan for the results of the project
- To disseminate the project results to final users, public administrations and research community.
Expected results and impact
- A 3D virtual environment for elderly people, to allow them from their own homes and with only a common PC and an Internet connection, access to a virtual world where they will establish social relationships with known or new persons, learn new things through e-learning tools, look up the latest news, play games, etc., as well as making phone and video calls.
- Pilot testing of the 3D solution with a target group of elderly users in Spain and Austria.
Partners
Partners involved in the 3rD-LIFE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundación Instituto Gerontológico Matia-INGEMA | R&D | Spain | www.ingema.es |
| University of Ljubljana | R&D | Slovenja | www.ltfe.org/english/about |
| One2tribe | SME | Poland | www.one2tribe.pl |
| Information & Image Management Systems | SME | Spain | www.ims.es |
| Center for usability research and engineering | R&D | Austria | www.cure.at |
- Project name: 3D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT FOR SOCIAL INTERACTION OF ELDERLY PEOPLE
- Coordinator: Fundación INGEMA, Spain
- Duration: 18 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2011
- Total budget: € 1.700.000
- Public contribution: € 1.030.000
Objectives
Independent life for Seniors
The Hope” solution consists of an integrated, smart platform that enables the elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease to use innovative technology for a more independent life, easy access to information, monitor their health, which provides a basis for integrating services for the elderly population while they are at home. HOPE is a self-operated, self-adjusted, innovative intelligent IP Based Universal Control Box (UCB) that uses intelligence to manage the various connected subsystems and devices within a residence of the elderly people.
Expected results and impact
Monitoring Patients
For the elderly people with advanced illness, the benefit in the quality of life of using HOPE will be significantly important. The HOPE application could monitor the patients so they will not leave the house, turn off appliances that can be turned on accidentally etc. But most importantly, when the system senses that there is a problem (for example the patient is starting to have a panic), it will talk to him or her, or even automatically inform one of the relatives.
Partners
Partners involved in the HOPE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhodes Telematics SA (RTEL) | SME | Greece | www.rtel.gr |
| KMOP NGO | End User | Greece | www.kmop.gr |
| TRACS srl | SME | Italy | www.tracs.it |
| FORUS Ltd | SME | Italy | www.forus.it |
| Unita Operativa Geriatra-Ricerca Gerontologia-Geriatria | End User | Italy | www.operapadrepio.it |
| Andalusian Centre of Innovation, ICT (CITIC Foundation) | R&D | Spain | www.citic.es |
| CETEMMSA Technological Centre | R&D | Spain | www.cetemmsa.com |
| I2S SA | SME | Greece | www.i2s.gr |
- Project name: Smart HOme for the elderly PEople
- Website: www.hope-project.eu
- Coordinator: Rhodes Telematics SA (RTEL), Greece
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 07.07.2009
- Total budget: € 2.138.094
- Public contribution: € 1.029.199
Objectives
The project will advance the state-of-the-art in fields of tele-healthcare and ambient intelligence (AmI) and enhance the elderly’s personal environment with audio-visual, sensor / motoric monitoring, and automation abilities for tracing vital signs, activity, behaviour and health condition, and detecting risks and critical situations as well as providing, proactively and reactively, effective and efficient support at home.
Then, in order to focus on the specific risks and problems experienced by elder individuals and due to the growing gap between urban and rural areas, the project is aimed to enable professional carers to access remotely past activity and medical data of their patients at anytime and from anywhere, and to promptly diagnose and react to health and life risks.
Expected results and impact
Regarding REMOTE’s progress beyond the state-of-the-art in integration of technologies and products, the following areas are characteristic.
- Open reference architectures and ontologies;
- Intelligent agents and AmI framework;
- Wearables, sensors and health/activity monitoring
- Independent living applications;
- Social support applications;
- In-home and domotic sensors and localisation systems;
- User interfaces and adaptive systems;
- Tele-healthcare products and services;
- Information extraction and use;
- Understanding of (chronic) and age-related conditions;
- Patient modelling (the medical perspective;
- User modelling (the human-machine interaction perspective;
- Elderly-friendly user interface design & development;
- Evaluation methods and tools;
- Guidelines, standards and policy.
Partners
Partners involved in the REMOTE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIEMENS S.A. | Large Industry | Spain | www.siemens.com |
| TSB Soluciones S.A. | SME | Spain | www.tsbtecnologias.es |
| Universidad Politecnica de Madrid | R&D | Spain | www.lst.tfo.upm.es |
| Fundación para la Investigación Médica Aplicada | R&D | Spain | www.cima.es |
| Saliwell (renamed to Peh-Med Ltd.) | SME | Israel | www.saliwell.com |
| Centre for Research and Technology Hellas | R&D | Greece | www.certh.gr |
| Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas | R&D | Greece | www.ics.forth.gr |
| Netscouts gemeinnuetzige GmbH | R&D | Germany | www.netscouts-ggmbh.de |
| Abama Technologies S.L. | SME | Spain | www.abama.es |
| University Hospital of North-Norway (UNN) - Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine | R&D | Norway | telemed.no |
| The European Older People´s Platform | End User | Belgium | www.age-platform.org |
| Bluepoint IT Solutions | SME | Romania | www.bluepoint-it.ro |
| Medea SRL | SME | Italia | www.medeaproject.eu |
| Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik | R&D | Germany | www.ibmt.fraunhofer.de |
| Ortholine Ltd. | SME | Israel | www.ortholine.co.il |
- Project name: Remote health and social care for independent living of isolated elderly with chronic conditions
- Website: www.remote-project.eu
- Coordinator: CERTH-IBBR, Greece
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2009
- Total budget: € 3.410.726
- Public contribution: € 2.249.194
Objectives
The DOMEO platform includes:
- 2 types of robots (cognitive and physical);
- graphic and tactile interfaces;
- voice recognition and speech synthesis;
- cloud services for tele-presence;
- tools for integration of various sensors and services.
The middleware software platform used for integration, is available in open-source, to make easier different implementations and scenarios. DOMEO deals with all the aspects of assistive robotics :
- robotic and internet technologies;
- medical and non-medical sensors;
- interface with home infrastructures;
- ethical issues.
To demonstrate and validate the potential of open robotic platforms, intensive trials (lab trials, site demos, patient’s homes field tests) are scheduled during the 3rd year.
Expected results and impact
DOMEO aims at helping elderly to stay longer and safer at home. By using advanced robotic technologies, DOMEO will also help caregivers in their daily work.
Partners
Partners involved in the DOMEO project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBOSOFT | SME | France | www.robosoft.com |
| ISIR | R&D | France | www.isir.upmc.fr |
| CHUT | R&D | France | www.chu-toulouse.fr |
| NILR | End User | Hungary | rehabint.hu |
| TAS | Large Industry | France | www.thalesgroup.com |
| TUW | R&D | Austria | www.is.tuwien.ac.at |
| BME | R&D | Hungary | portal.bme.hu |
| Meditech | SME | Hungary | www.meditech.com |
- Project name: Domestic Robot for elderly assistance
- Website: http://www.aal-domeo.eu
- Coordinator: ROBOSOFT (France)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2009
- Total budget: € 2.400.000
- Public contribution: € 2.160.000
EMOTIONAAL
The aim of EMOTIONAAL is to develop an integrated healthcare-concept for elderly people in rural areas in Europe This includes the four important innovations: An integrated services platform ...
Read moreObjectives
The increase of chronic conditions and chronic diseases in European societies – especially in rural areas – is evident. The aim of scientific and political intentions is to extend the time elderly people in rural areas can live independently in their home environment. In this project an integrated solution for the elderly by the seamless inclusion of social services and new technologies in rural areas, named “The Emotional Village” was developed. The project includes intense support for self-care and prevention and assistance to carry out daily activities, health and activity monitoring and enhances safety and security.
Expected results and impact
The use of an IT supported regional care structure, telemedicine and biofeedback provides change of the health behavior by monitoring of critical biomarker and support of health promoting behavior. In case of diabetic metabolism a collaborative and individual health behavior should be improved by the advancement of participation in social life. This offers the elderly of rural areas a long and independent life in their own homes with an increase of quality of life.
Partners
Partners involved in the EMOTIONAAL project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| B. Braun Melsungen AG (BBM) | Large Industry | Germany | www.bbraun.de |
| Protestant University of Applied Sciences DepT. of Health Sciences and Nursing, Darmstadt (EHD) | R&D | Germany | www.efh-darmstadt.de |
| Opsolution NanoPhotonics GmbH, Kassel (OPN) | Large Industry | Germany | www.opsolution.de |
| HD Projekte | Large Industry | Germany | www.hd-projekte.de |
| University of Marburg, Institute of Geography (UNIMR) | R&D | Germany | www.uni-marburg.de/fb19 |
| University of Kassel, Institute of Nanostructure and Analytics (INA) | R&D | Germany | te.ina-kassel.de |
| DIAK University Institute for Socio-Economic Sciences, Pieksämäkki, Finland (DIAK) | R&D | Finland | english.diak.fi |
| Vitaphone GmbH, Telemedical Services, Vienna, SME (VPH) | Large Industry | Austria | www.vitaphone.co.at |
- Project name: The Emotional Village: Integrated Preventive AAL concept for the rural Aging Society in Europa
- Website: www.emotionalaal.eu
- Coordinator: B. Braun Melsungen AG (BBM)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2009
- Total budget: € 3.200.000
- Public contribution: € 1.600.000