Objectives
The NITICS project designs and builds a holistic platform that is expandable and offers advanced ICT services including monitoring and navigational support for the mobility of elderly and disabled persons in their home during their daily activities. Furthermore, it also brings suitable services for elderly and people with diseases or disabilities (mobility handicaps, cognitive disabilities and mental diseases) that can keep their cognitive capability (at both physical and mental levels) intact.
Expected results and impact
NITICS will provide a major impetus to the development of AAL types of services, by taking away many of the hurdles that developers are facing. Thus, NITICS-enabled services will have two major effects: on one hand it will improve the freedom and independence of the elderly, and on the other hand it will lead to cost savings when fully embedded in the health care system. Care costs can be reduced through the appropriate use of technology and hospital admissions can be delayed and even avoided.
Partners
Partners involved in the NITICS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECLEXYS SAGL | SME | Switzerland | www.eclexys.com |
| SSW, Knowledge Society Association | End User | Poland | www.ssw.org.pl |
| CITST | End User | Romania | www.citst.ro |
| Warsaw University of Technology | R&D | Poland | www.ire.pw.edu.pl |
| Siemens | Large Industry | Romania | www.siemens.com |
| MKS Electronic Systems Ltd. | End User | Slovenia | www.mks.si |
| VisAge Living Lab | SME | France | www.visagell.com |
| SAPHYRION Sagl | R&D | Switzerland | www.saphyrion.ch |
| Eeleo | SME | France | www.eleo.com |
- Project name: Networked InfrasTructure for Innovative home Care Solutions
- Website: www.eclexys.com
- Coordinator: ECLEXYS SAGL
- Duration: 27 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2013
- Total budget: € 4.155.944
- Public contribution: € 2.458.145
Contact
Angelo Consoli
E.: angelo.consoli@eclexys.com
T.: +41 91 600 00 00
Objectives
By combining state of the art technologies into a multi-player gaming environment, MoMo – SMART AGEING CONCEPT- will provide an innovative solution to motivate older adults to increase physical activity and exercise cognitive skills. MoMo Concept will: enable the physician’s supervision to avoid injury; educate older people on the benefits of physical activity/cognitive training; tailor activities to the older adults condition and ability; provide both indoor and outdoor activities and increase the participation of women in these activities; offer a cost effective solution using ICT technologies.
Expected results and impact
The at-home functionalities of Mobility Motivator will include tele-measurement of range of motion and video conferencing facilities with supervision by medical professionals, support staff or family members as well as a gaming environment. A multi-player outdoor mobile gaming environment will provide a truly innovative and enjoyable approach to a smart, healthy living and ageing.
Furthermore, MoMo Concept will provide those for whom the care and welfare of the elderly end user is of particular concern.
Partners
Partners involved in the MoMo project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laboratoire d’Ingénierie de Systèmes, (University of Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines) | R&D | France | www.lisv.uvsq.fr |
| IAT, University of Westphalien | R&D | Germany | www.iatge.de |
| Audemat | SME | France | www.audemat.com |
| Studio 352 | SME | Luxemburg | www.studio352.lu |
| Inventya Ltd | Large Industry | United Kingdom | www.inventya.com |
| E-SENIORS | End User | France | www.e-seniors.asso.fr |
| Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève | End User | Switzerland | www.hug-ge.ch |
| German Red Cross Mettmann | End User | Germany | www.drk-mettmann.de |
| La Mosca | SME | Belgium | www.lamosca.be |
- Project name: A motivating game-like environment for the promotion and monitoring of mobility and cognitive skills amongst older adults
- Website: www.mobility-motivator.uvsq.fr
- Coordinator: LISV-UVSQ (Versailles Laboratory of Engineering and Systems – University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines).
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2012
- Total budget: € 4.026.476
- Public contribution: € 2.072.406
Contact
Prof. Yasser ALAYLI, LISV-UVSQ
Sanja Vujacic
T.: +33 1 39 25 47 68
Objectives
Develop a mental wellness toolset for self-usage, specifically computer games, tailored for elderly people. Measure and visualise mental changes and tendencies by an entertaining way. Give indications (warnings, alarms, reports) to elderly persons, relatives, friends or carers. Develop scientifically sound methodology for the measurement and data evaluation. Build multinational mental wellness community backed with multilingual website. Create multilingual content for the mental-wellness multinational community.
Expected results and impact
The earlier one recognises a negative change in his/her own mind or his/her relative’s mental ability the higher the chance is to stop, delay or slow down the speed of health weakening. Regular self-monitoring of elderly person’s mental wellness may extend the time of active and joyful participation in life. Elderly people will be longer active and in contacts with others in their environment. Families will enjoy the toolset that could help them to recognise alarming changes in their relatives’ mind. The project should bring improvements to the quality of life of individuals, their relatives and friends, and thus the quality of life in the whole society will develop.
Partners
Partners involved in the M3W project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics - Healthcare Technologies Knowledge Centre | R&D | Hungary | emt.bme.hu/emt/en |
| Actimage Ltd. | SME | Luxembourg | www.actimage.com |
| Frontida Zois Ltd. | SME | Greece | www.frontidazois.gr |
| Gaudiopolis Retirement Home | End User | Hungary | www.gaudiopolis.hu |
| Semmelweis University – Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy | R&D | Hungary | www.semmelweis-univ.hu |
| Silver Kiadó (Publishing) Ltd. | SME | Hungary | www.otvenentul.hu |
| Zurich University of Applied Sciences – Institute of Facility Management | R&D | Switzerland | www.ifm.zhaw.ch |
- Project name: Maintaining and Measuring Mental Wellness – M3W
- Website: http://m3w-project.eu
- Coordinator: Budapest University of Technology and Economics – Healthcare Technologies Knowledge Centre
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.12.2011
- Total budget: € 2.100.000
- Public contribution: € 1.800.000
I WALK ACTIVE
Active living is a way of life that integrates physical activity into daily routines. However, a large proportion of the age group 60-85 suffers from various kinds of physical disability that ...
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iWalkActive creates an active walker for active people. The aim is to offer a highly innovative, attractive, open walker platform that greatly improves the user’s mobility in an enjoyable and motivating way, while at the same time enabling physical activities that are either impossible, or very difficult to perform with a traditional rollator.
Technically and conceptually, the idea goes beyond that of a conventional walking aid. It takes an innovative walker frame – the Veloped – extends it with an efficient, powerful e-drive and combines it with the possibilities of state of the art ICT technology acting as a mobile device dock connected to valuable navigation and assistance services in the cloud.
Expected results and impact
The resulting activity platform offers outdoor as well as indoor navigation and orientation services and the assistive features of an all-terrain capable walker with a supportive e-drive. Community services such as the recording and rating of walking routes and an open interface for new walking-tailored Apps – down-loadable over an AppStore based on the UniversAAL uStore – enable the users to enjoy improved mobility, greater access to the outdoors and a motivating, enjoyable way to stay physically active.
Partners
Partners involved in the iWalkActive project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hochschule Luzern – Technik & Architektur, iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.ihomelab.ch |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| CareGuide GmbH | SME | Switzerland | www.careguide.ch |
| TRIKON Solutions AG | SME | Switzerland | www.trikon.ch |
| Geo7 AG | SME | Switzerland | www.geo7.ch |
| ITH icoserve technology for healthcare GmbH | Large Industry | Austria | www.ith-icoserve.com |
| Social Services Department of the Kanton Zug | End User | Switzerland | www.zg.ch |
| Trionic Sverige AB | SME | Sweden | www.trionic.se |
| SPF - Sveriges Pensionärsförbund as 3rd party of TRI | End User | Sweden | www.spf.se |
- Project name: iWalkActive- The Active Walker for Active People
- Website: www.ihomelab.ch/index.php?id=20
- Coordinator: Hochschule Luzern – Technik & Architektur, iHomeLab
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 15.08.2012
- Total budget: € 2.827.000
- Public contribution: € 1.482.000
Objectives
AAL PaeLIFE joins a consortium of 8 partners (Portugal, France, Hungary and Poland), focusing on individuals who are recently retired, who are used to some level of technology usage and who want to keep themselves active, independent, productive and socially engaged. PaeLIFE is our proposal for a Personal Life Assistant (PLA), a virtual presence who supports social communication, learning/teaching and entertainment and new solution of multimodal (speech, touch, gesture, biometric) Human Computer Interaction, making the elderly relationship with computers and technology easier and more natural.
Expected results and impact
By designing the optimal mix of Human-Computer Interfaces (HCI) modalities that suit usage context and are able to deal with the momentary capabilities of the elderly, PaeLife enables the improvement of the interaction capacities. Therefore with our PLA the elderly will be able to interface with a range of services in the Internet at home. PaeLife will bring improved communication capabilities and productivity to these citizens, enhancing social interaction, providing more autonomy, better sense of control, safety and self-esteem, allowing active ageing and improving quality of life.
Partners
Partners involved in the Paelife project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSFT – Software para Microcomputadores, LDA | SME | Portugal | www.microsoft.com |
| INESC ID, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa | R&D | Portugal | www.inesc-id.pt |
| BME, Budapest University of Technology and Economics | R&D | Hungary | www.bme.hu |
| The Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research | R&D | Hungary | www.bayzoltan.hu/bay-ikti |
| SSW, Knowledge Society Association | End User | Poland | www.ssw.org.pl |
| Genitech | SME | France | genitech.com |
| University of Technology of Troyes | R&D | France | www.utt.fr/en/index.html |
| University de Aveiro | R&D | Portugal | www.ua.pt |
- Project name: PaeLife – Personal Assistant to Enhance the Social Life of the Seniors
- Website:
- Coordinator: MSFT – Software para Microcomputadores, LDA (Microsoft Portugal)
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 24.02.2012
- Total budget: € 1.700.964,25
- Public contribution: € 1.308.551,85
MOBILE SAGE
Elderly will increasingly look for useful, user friendly and personalised ICT services that add value to their active and mobile life and that can help them to stay active despite various ...
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The objective of MobileSage is to provide elderly people with context-sensitive, personalised and location-sensitive tools which allow them to carry out and solve everyday tasks and problems when and were they occur, “just-in-time”. Modern elderly live longer, are healthier, more active, mobile, independent and more demanding customers than ever before They will increasingly look for useful, user-friendly and personalised ICT services that add value to their active and mobile life and that can help them to stay active despite various impairments. Here MobileSage provides a timely approach and solution.
Expected results and impact
The MobileSage services will considerably ease the understanding of everyday devices and machines and increase the independence of primary end-users by providing help for self-help and stimulate their own problem solving skills in everyday life. It will also lighten the burden for family members, care persons, and other secondary end-users as the primary end-user will be enabled to solve daily challenges in an independent manner. Also, NGOs for the elderly are likely to find the services valuable and useful.
Partners
Partners involved in the MobileSage project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Computing Center (Coordinator) | R&D | Norway | www.nr.no |
| Seniornett | End User | Norway | www.seniornett.no |
| TeamNet | SME | Romania | www.teamnet.ro |
| University of Ulster (subcontractor) | R&D | United Kingdom | www.ulster.ac.uk |
| ISOIN | SME | Spain | www.isoin.es |
| Telefonica I & D (Telefonica Investigación y Desarrollo) | Large Industry | Spain | www.tid.es |
| Ruter | SME | Norway | www.ruter.no |
| Ana Aslan Interntional Foundation | R&D | Romania | www.brainaging.ro |
- Project name: MobileSage – Situated Adapted Guidance for the Mobile Elderly
- Website: http://mobilesage.eu
- Coordinator: Norwegian Computing Center
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 07.07.2011
- Total budget: € 2.398.645,00
- Public contribution: € 1.242.822
Objectives
vAssist aims at providing specific voice controlled Home Care and Communication Services for two target groups of older persons: Seniors suffering from chronic diseases and/or suffering from (fine) motor skill impairments. The main goal is the development of simplified and adapted interface variants for tele-medical and communication applications using multilingual natural voice interaction. vAssist aims to enhance the perceived quality of Home Care and Communication services and to reduce costs supporting existing hardware and interfaces in the home of older persons (TV, Smart Phone, PC).
Expected results and impact
The result of vAssist are multilingual natural voice interfaces for a specific set of communication and tele-medicine services along with specific hard and software developments to provide these services in the older users’ home. In this way vAssist will provide an alternative and easy access to existing communication and tele-medical solutions for senior persons. vAssist will reduce costs related to the service delivery by using existing on-site hardware and infrastructure such as TV, Smart Phone and PC.
Partners
Partners involved in the vAssist project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| CURE - Center for Usability Research and Engineering (CURE) | R&D | Austria | www.cure.at |
| Institut-Télécom (IT) | R&D | France | www.telecom-paristech.fr |
| Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique (ESIEE) | R&D | France | www.esiee.fr |
| Integrazioni e Sistemi SpA (I&S) | SME | Italy | www.isspa.it |
| Shankaa | SME | France | |
| ASICA Électronique Industrielle | SME | France | www.asica.com |
| PL.O.T EDV-Planungs- und HandelsGesmbH (PLOT) | SME | Austria | www.plot.at |
| Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) | End User | France | www.aphp.fr |
| EURAG Austria | End User | Austria | www.eurag.at |
| MobyView (MV) | SME | France | www.mobyview.com |
- Project name: Voice Controlled Assistive Care and Communication Services for the Home (vAssist)
- Website: http://vassist.cure.at
- Coordinator: CURE – Center for Usability Research and Engineering (CURE), Austria
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.12.2011
- Total budget: € 2.345.104,00
- Public contribution: € 1.432.218,00
Contact
Bernhard Wöckl
E.: woeckl@cure.at
T.: +43.1.743 54 51 – 217
Manfred Tscheligi
T.: +43.1.743 54 51 – 600
Objectives
ICT-based services aimed at supporting safety, autonomy and effectiveness of feeding daily activities are proposed, either home-based (in the kitchen environment) and internet-based. Simple services deals with the kitchen safety management, whereas more articulated ones will fully exploit networking among devices (remote operation features) and among people (social-oriented applications). User-centred design strategies are exploited to ensure service usability and trustworthiness, user’s reward and satisfaction. Designed features will enter the mainstream production line of a large enterprise.
Expected results and impact
Smart appliances, including network connectivity features, will be designed and produced: AAL features will be accounted for into mainstream industry production, fulfilling “design for all” prescriptions. The whole industrial design cycle will be carried out within the project, leading to fully certified, ready-to-market devices. Services supporting independent and rewarding kitchen activities will be made available and tested on a 18 month pilot phase, in 3 European countries. Users and market perspectives will be assessed through evaluation tools, also exploited for iterative trimming of devised solutions.
Partners
Partners involved in the FOOD project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| INDESIT Company SpA | Large Industry | Italy | www.indesitcompany.com |
| ANMIL | End User | Italy | www.anmil.it |
| Brainport Development N.V. | End User | Netherlands | www.brainport.nl |
| Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design | SME | Denmark | ciid.dk |
| Department Of Social Services, Local Council Brasov | End User | Romania | www.brasovcity.ro |
| International Business School, Jönköping University | SME | Sweden | www.jibs.se |
| Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerca | R&D | Italy | www.ifac.cnr.it |
| Università degli Studi di Parma, Centro di Collaborazione sulle Tecnologie Assistive | R&D | Italy | www.unipr.it |
| SC Vision Systems SRL | R&D | Romania | www.vision-systems.ro |
- Project name: Framework for Optimizing the prOcess of FeeDing – FOOD
- Website: www.food-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Indesit Company SPA
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2012
- Total budget: € 3.232.865,99
- Public contribution: € 1.616.337,00
Contact
Leonardo Arteconi
E.: leonardo.arteconi@indesit.com
T.: +39 0732 663999
Paolo Ciampolini
T.: +39 0521 905828, +39 334 6669195
Objectives
WeCare is a collaborative European project which primary goal is to encourage older people to create, participate in and continue their social networks in order to prevent isolation and loneliness. By increasing their autonomy older people will be able to live at home longer, will preserve their quality of life and will continue to give their input and contribution to the neighbourhood and the larger society. Furthermore, by planning family or informal care to older people in a more efficient way, the demand for professional care and social services will decrease. A service, WeCare 2.0, will be developed, evaluated and deployed to accomplish these goals.
Expected results and impact
The following main results are expected:
- A design for a flexible WeCare 2.0 product with a pick and mix structure with services like: video communication, medicine reminder, calendar and broadcast functionalities represented. The WeCare system will encourage older people to create and strengthen their social networks in order to improve their well-being and prevent isolation and loneliness.
- Insights in the effect of ICT on wellbeing of older people and in the habits that improve their social embedding.
- The third goal is that one or two companies will further develop the WeCare 2.0 system into a working product.
Partners
Partners involved in the WeCare project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO | R&D | Netherlands | www.tno.nl |
| Ericsson Telecommunication | Large Industry | Netherlands | www.ericsson.com |
| Simac | Large Industry | Netherlands | www.simac.com |
| ANBO | End User | Netherlands | www.anbo.nl |
| Institute of Innovation for Human Wellbeing I2BC | R&D | Spain | www.i2bc.es |
| Fundación Andaluza de Servicios Sociales FASS | End User | Spain | www.juntadeandalucia.es |
| VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT | R&D | Finland | www.vtt.fi |
| Videra Ltd | SME | Finland | www.videra.com |
| Caritas Foundation | End User | Finland | www.caritas-saatio.fi |
| Skytek Ltd | SME | Finland | www.skytek.com |
- Project name: WeCare AAL WeCare 2.0
- Website: www.wecare-project.eu
- Coordinator: TNO, The Netherlands
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 11.02.2010
- Total budget: € 3.670.000
- Public contribution: € 2.240.000
Objectives
Older persons (aged 60 and above) are underrepresented both in online social communities and online collaborative projects. Considering the increasingly important role and the potential benefits of social media in most societies this poses a serious challenge. The TAO project aims on the one hand to develop efficient methods to raise the number of older persons using and benefiting from online social communities. On the other hand, its goal is to develop strategies for online collaborative projects to successfully integrate older contributors.
Expected results and impact
Once the project ends, the participating community partners should have a set of successfully tested measures for the activation and involvement of older persons in their own online communities. The operators of online communities will have a handbook containing instructions on how to activate and involve senior citizens successfully and on how to develop products and services so that they are suitable for senior citizens.
Partners
Partners involved in the TAO project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bern University of Applied Sciences: Department Business, Health, Social Work | R&D | Switzerland | www.wgs.bfh.ch |
| United Nations University / University Maastricht, UM-Merit | R&D | Netherlands | www.merit.unu.edu |
| University of Ulm, The Centre for General Scientific Continuing Education (in short ZAWiW) | R&D | Netherlands | www.uni-ulm.de/uni/fak/zawiw/startseite/en |
| Seniorweb Switzerland | End User | Switzerland | www.seniorweb.ch |
| SeniorWeb.NL | End User | Netherlands | www.seniorweb.nl |
| Wikimedia Switzerland | End User | Switzerland | www.wikimedia.ch |
| Wikimedia Germany | End User | Germany | www.wikimedia.de |
| Zeix AG | SME | Switzerland | www.zeix.com |
| Access for All Foundation | End User | Switzerland | www.access-for-all.ch |
| MD Systems | SME | Switzerland | www.md-systems.ch |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
- Project name: TAO Community & Collaboration
- Website: www.thirdageonline.eu
- Coordinator: Bern University of Applied Sciences
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2010
- Total budget: € 3.000.000
- Public contribution: € 1.500.000