Objectives
ENTRANCE is a multidisciplinary project with 8 partners from 4 European countries. The consortium consists of 2 research institutions, 2 user organisations and 4 SMEs. ENTRANCE will develop an innovative platform for trip planning, indoor and outdoor navigation and Internet service use. The platform will comprise a home terminal with a serious game and a multi-sensory mobile interface for navigation and way finding. The home and mobile technology will be usable and accessible. It will also help older adults maintain and develop their cognitive abilities. The technology will be tested in France and Austria.
Expected results and impact
The ENTRANCE platform will give more independence to older adults when using e-booking services and when navigating outdoors and indoors. It will not only be useful, usable and accessible, but will also help its users maintain and develop their cognitive abilities. The ENTRANCE platform will be tested with about 90 users aged 50 or more, at two test locations in Austria and France. The tests will be done iteratively, both in laboratory and in the field. The project will have a duration of 3 years, for an effort of 525 PM. The ENTRANCE platform could be brought to the market at the end of 2015.
Partners
Partners involved in the ENTRANCE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commisariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives | R&D | France | www-list.cea.fr |
| Paris Lodron University of Salzburg | R&D | Austria | www.icts.sbg.ac.at |
| Autonom’Lab | End User | France | www.autonom-lab.com |
| 50Plus GmbH | End User | Austria | www.50plusgmbh.com |
| Geomobile GmbH | SME | Germany | www.geomobile.de |
| GFTH Ltd. | SME | Hungary | www.gfthu.com |
| Idées-3com | SME | France | www.idees-3com.com |
| Splitted-Desktop Systems | SME | France | www.splitted-desktop.com |
- Project name: Enabling Elderly People travel and Internet Access – ENTRANCE
- Website: www.entrance.fr
- Coordinator: CEA LIST, France
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2011
- Total budget: € 4.385.128
- Public contribution: € 2.096.042
Objectives
The concept of GoldUI is focused on empowering the older individual, enabling them to access online “self serve” services and therefore to benefit from the digital world by using the familiar home technologies of domestic radio, TV and telephone augmented by a mobile smartphone interface when away from home.
By using content adaptation and personalisation techniques GoldUI will provide the elderly with access to a wide range of online services considering individual’s abilities and needs.
Expected results and impact
GoldUI impact is ensured through 1) Involvement of partners from Spain, UK and Italy, 2) Clustering with other projects and 3) Expected elderly potential market. The target market, 65-75 year-old people, is considered a potential market in continuous.
12-18 months after the end of the project, there will be a commercial launch. During this time, the prototype system will be upgraded such that “soft launch” will be feasible earlier to allow business partners to test the system.
Partners
Partners involved in the GoldUI project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| HI-Iberia Ingeniería y Proyectos S.L. | SME | Spain | www.hi-iberia.es |
| XIM Ltd | SME | United Kingdom | www.xim.co.uk |
| Tiscali Italia S.p.A. | Large Industry | Italy | www.tiscali.it |
| Fundación para la eSalud (FeSalud) | End User | Spain | www.fesalud.org |
- Project name: Adaptive Embedded Human Interfaces designed for older people
- Coordinator: HI-Iberia Ingeniería y Proyectos S.L.
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 18.07.2011
- Total budget: € 1.537.726,76
- Public contribution: € 807.656
Objectives
The aimed solution is to provide easy-to-use technologies and services in social housing flats to allow a better quality of communication and a better access to package services from the elders; by experimenting a European model of “connected flats” for elder people, characterised by specific equipment enabling easier relations with, family, service providers and housing operators, through enriched supports (images, text, voice, documents) the host project should:
- Bring more comfort of living to the elders
- Reinforce social inclusion (with friends, family, administrations, social operators…)
- Allow a longer stay in their house
Expected results and impact
The expected impacts on a European scale will be:
- An overall assessment (technology, usages, interface, contents, communication…) of such a device to capitalised on the project management
- Experimentation of business models for service providers, social housing operators and elderly tenants (what kind of opportunities induced by mutualisation?)
- A cross fertilisation process between different countries and different practices that could contribute to a long term “share of experiences”
- The sketch of a standard architecture to help the spreading of related projects
Partners
Partners involved in the HOST project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPAC du Rhône | End User | France | www.opacdurhone.fr |
| FINABITA | SME | Italy | www.legacoopabitanti.coop |
| Nottingham Community Housing | End User | United Kingdom | www.ncha.org.uk |
| ADAMA/ AVIZEN | SME | France | www.avizen.fr |
| National Research Council Construction Technologies Institute | R&D | Italy | www.itc.cnr.it |
| Conseil Général du Rhône / ERASME | R&D | France | www.erasme.org |
| Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1 | R&D | France | www.ujf-grenoble.fr |
| Triple Play | SME | United Kingdom | www.tripleplay-services.com |
| BIO RESULT | SME | Italy | www.bioresult.it |
| University of Valencia/ Polibienestar | R&D | Spain | www.polibienestar.org |
- Project name: Smart technologies for self-service to seniors in social housing
- Website: www.host-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Françoise ABRY Responsable Qualité de Service et Gestion du Peuplement
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2011
- Total budget: € 4.774.086,57
- Public contribution: € 2.290.680
Objectives
Inclusion Society is a connected service system which will support organisations delivering an improved community care service. The aim is to help people adapt their lifestyle, improve their health, and feel connected. InS aims to encourage a change in behaviour by applying motivational techniques and thinking. The client uses a tablet PC & records health data via smart sensors. Social interaction with family, friends & care provider is supported by a network of cloud ‘portals’. InS will provide preventive health care for senior citizens at home and institutions, improving their security and quality of life.
Expected results and impact
InclusionSociety development will deliver 4 modules, where at an early stage homePad and the friends & family portal can be installed. The system will grow with their demands to cover the demands of care by bridging the homePad to Care Management System at the Service Provider’s centre. Further, when there will be a demand for medical support, the nursePad will be linked to follow up in home or in institutions for senior citizens. InclusionSociety will meet the goals to give senior citizens an opportunity to stay longer at home with a higher quality life as well as improving utilisation of the municipality facilities.
Partners
Partners involved in the InS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital Organiser AS | SME | Norway | www.hospitalorganiser.no |
| Mediq AS | SME | Denmark | www.mediqdanmark.dk/ |
| Alloy LTD | SME | United KIngdom | www.thealloy.com |
| ViVit AS | SME | Norway | www.vivit.no |
- Project name: InclusionSociety- improving usability of the municipal health services and opening up access to the self- serve society
- Website: www.inclusionSociety.com
- Coordinator: Hospital Organiser AS Lysker w/ Oslo, Norway
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2012
- Total budget: € 1.583.790
- Public contribution: € 813.839
Objectives
LILY is focusing on the improvement of the quality of life, autonomy, participation in social life, skills and employability through a transportable adapted home environment for a self serve of daily living activities. LILY aims at putting the technology at the service of three dimensions of users: the single individual older persons, persons in direct contact with their professional care and social workers as well as family members, together with the institutions and private organisations paying and enabling services that are public sector, social security or insurance companies.
Expected results and impact
LILY will prototype the needed products and services. Pre-industrial prototypes of the products, validated in 2 pilot sites will be available at the end of the project. The expected benefits: for older persons, the increase of the quality of life, independent living and better decision taking ability. For the helpers: communication efficiency, increase cost-benefit standards. For the SMEs and service providers: advanced products demanded by users and a big market opportunity. As an outcome a set of business models are created which are easy to replicate to new sites.
Partners
Partners involved in the LILY project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Oulu | R&D | Finland | ratoy.oulu.fi |
| Oulu University of Applied Sciences | R&D | Finland | www.oamk.fi |
| Technical University of Vienna | R&D | Austria | www.aat.tuwien.ac.at |
| Siperia Systems Oy | SME | Finland | Pandora--Service.Management.Software.for.Elderly.Care.pdf |
| VISAGE Camera-Contact SA | SME | France | camera-contact.com/offre.html |
| The Districal Joint Municipal Authority of Health Care in Raahe, Siikajoki, Pyhäjoki and Vihanti | End User | Finland | www.ras.fi |
| The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Creuse area | End User | France | www.cci-creuse.com |
- Project name: Advanced Support for Independent Living; Human Life Cycle Approach in Senior Housing – LILY
- Website: http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/lily/
- Coordinator: University of Oulu, Raahe unit, Finland
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.12.2011
- Total budget: € 1.937.854
- Public contribution: € 1.333.553
Objectives
The objective of Mylife is to support independence for older people with reduced cognitive function by giving them access to simple and intuitive services that are adapted to their individual needs and wishes. The ambition of the Mylife project is to provide network-based access to, and management of, commercially and/or freely available software, and activities managed from the secondary end-uses’ locations enabling the primary end-users to access Mylife applications remotely via the internet. The final service offered by Mylife supports time-orientation, communication and recreational activities.
Expected results and impact
The expected outcome of Mylife for the primary end-users will be (1) increased independence and well-being in home environments, (2) decreased social isolation and thereby increased participation, (3) stimulation of cognitive abilities, and (4) self-services based on Internet-enabled applications. For the secondary end-users, the outcomes are: (1) simple and inspiring user instructions and (2) reduced stress caused by worries, repeated questions and calls, as well as passivity. Mylife will also create new business opportunities for SMEs and enable a greater uptake of electronic self-services.
Partners
Partners involved in the Mylife project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karde AS | SME / Large Industry | Norway | www.karde.no |
| Tellu AS | SME / Large Industry | Norway | www.tellu.no |
| Forget-me-not AS | SME / Large Industry | Norway | www.forgetmenot.no |
| Sidsel Bjørneby Sole Proprietorship | SME / Large Industry | Norway | www.sidselb.no |
| Housing21 | End User | United Kingdom | www.housing21.co.uk |
| Trent Dementia Services and Development Centre | End User | United Kingdom | www.trentdsdc.org.uk |
| Berlin Institute for Social Research | R&D | Germany | www.bis-berlin.de |
- Project name: Multimedia technology for independence and participation for people with dementia
- Website: www.mylife-project.org
- Coordinator: Karde AS, Norway
- Duration: 20 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2011
- Total budget: € 1.059.973
- Public contribution: € 620.335
Objectives
- OsteoLink was successfully created and launched in 2010
- Osteolink went live in Austria and Sweden in December 2010
- A total of 1,900 unique users from 16 countries (02-04/2011)
- OsteoLink provides a range of educational materials that is scientifically validated and credible.
- To date, 108 unique media articles have featured OsteoLink and the survey data. These have reached audiences throughout Europe and Australia.
- 13 IOF member societies from 9 countries are actively engaged in the pilot programme.
- In 2011, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Portugal, Spain, Greece and France will go live.
Expected results and impact
- Create the first online and in-person osteoporosis community that operates at the global and country level, addressing the educational and support needs of osteoporosis patients in Europe and Australia
- Provide tools for better communication for people with osteoporosis and health professionals to help improve adherence
- Encourage better dialogue among people with osteoporosis, healthcare professionals, friends and families
- Inform the osteoporosis community about OsteoLink and its role in improving communication
Partners
Partners involved in the OsteoLink project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Division of Bone Diseases | R&D | Switzerland | www.unige.ch |
| International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) | SME | Switzerland | www.iofbonehealth.org |
| Amgen (Europe) GmbH | Large Industry | Switzerland | www.Amgen.com |
| Hill & Knowlton | SME | United Kingdom | www.Hill&Knowlton.co.uk |
| Action for Healthy Bones (AHB) | End User | Austria | www.aktiongesundeknochen.at |
| Syzygy | SME | United Kingdom | www.syzygy.net |
- Project name: OsteoLink (T-Break)
- Website: http://www.osteolink.org/
- Coordinator: International Osteoporosis Foundation – Switzerland
- Duration: 20 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2010
- Total budget: € 1.536.668
- Public contribution: € 411.254
Contact
Victoria Monti
E.: vmonti@iofbonehealth.org
T.: +41 22 994 01 22
Laurence Triouleyre
E.: ltriouleyre@iofbonehealth.org
T.: +41 22 994 01 22
Objectives
NACODEAL project will provide a new type of easy-to-use Technology tool for elderly people, to enable them to actively face challenges related to daily life while keeping them connected to today’s Information Society. NACODEAL will provide a guidance service by using Augmented Reality, creating friendly guides, to enable elders to be self-sufficient despite their memory diseases and access online services which are relevant to them. NACODEAL will generate a portable device easy to use and easy to understand, taking into consideration their preferences.
Expected results and impact
The NACODEAL project will have an important impact on helping elderly people in their daily tasks and keeping them involved in present society. The resulting device will increase the time elderly people lead an independent life, reducing their need for Public health services. Moreover, innovative technologies, new techniques, new software, and better tools will also be developed by this project.
Partners
Partners involved in the NACODEAL project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instituto Tecnológico de Castilla y León | R&D | Spain | www.itcl.es |
| Ibernex | Large Industry | Spain | www.ibernex.es |
| Cooss Marche | End User | Italy | www.cooss.marche.it |
| E-senior | End User | France | www.eseniors.eu |
| Imaxdi | SME | Spain | www.imaxdi.com |
- Project name: Natural Communication Device for Assisted Living “NACODEAL”
- Website: www.nacodeal.eu/en/
- Coordinator: Instituto Tecnológico de Castilla y León, Spain
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2011
- Total budget: € 2.543.314
- Public contribution: € 1.014.411
FAMCONNECTOR
FamConnector offers groundbreaking innovation in the area of inter-generational connectivity through its main components. They include: A library of inter-generational activities – including ...
Read moreObjectives
FamConnector will be Europe’s leading generic product in the field of meaningful, online inter-generational interactions between grandparents and grandchildren, aged 3-9) and other geographically-distant family members.
Through the unique integration of technology with content and activities to be developed on the basis of end-user feedback, FamConnector is designed to establish and nurture grandparent’s connection to their grandchildren, enriching their lives, fostering meaningful relationships through content-rich experiences.
Expected results and impact
FamConnector is designed to be marketed and sustained as a subscription based product. By focusing solely on inter-generational interactions, FamConnector will be able to provide the richest experience, offering a specifically-tailored, user-friendly platform with the most relevant content so that each interaction creates a real, lasting impact in the lives of the elderly population we serve. As a white label solution, FamConnector will empower other service providers for elderly people, enabling them to offer an added value solution and a new stream of revenue.
Partners
Partners involved in the FamConnector project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| FamCorner, Ltd. | SME | Israel | www.mygrandchild.com |
| University of Salzburg | R&D | Austria | www.icts.uni-salzburg.at |
| Kotosalla Foundation | End User | Finland | www.kotosalla.fi |
| Hilfswerk Österreich | End User | Austria | www.hilfswerk.at |
| University of St.Gallen | R&D | Switzerland | www.unisg.ch |
| terzstiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
- Project Name: FamConnector: Activity Based Intergenerational Interactions
- Website: www.mygrandchild.com
- Coordinator: FamCorner ltd
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2010
- Total Budget: € 1,527,639
- Public Contribution: € 996,541
Objectives
FoSIBLE aims at the well-being and self-esteem of older people by supporting an active life-style to prevent loneliness. FoSIBLE aims at providing bridging spaces to foster social interactions and experiences by acknowledging the diversity of preferences, needs and interests. Fosible will develop a Social TV community platform with game technologies and smart furniture and will provide adapted input devices including gesture recognition fostering social support between peers through virtual communities and entertainment applications.
Expected results and impact
FoSIBLE is targeted around providing a TV-based Social Media Centre with services for :
- Staying in touch with relatives and friends, as well as contacting peer groups
- Participating in games and physical activity
- Sharing interests (cooking, poetry, etc.)
The project intends to provide new ways to control social technology applications, e.g. via tablet control, gestures, or smart furniture. An open platform will allow for additional integration and dissemination to end-users.
Partners
Partners involved in the FoSIBLE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Duisburg-Essen | R&D | Germany | www.uni-siegen.de |
| University of Siegen | R&D | Germany | www.uni-siegen.de |
| Fraunhofer Institute IMS | R&D | Germany | www.ims.fhg.de |
| University of Technology of Troyes | R&D | France | www.utt.fr |
| CURE – Center of Usability Research and Engineering | R&D | Austria | www.cure.at |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Mauser Einrichtungssysteme GmbH & Co. KG | Large Industry | Germany | www.mauser-moebel.de |
| Kaasa Solution GmbH | SME | Germany | www.kaasa.com |
| Malakoff-Médéric Centre Les Arcades | End User | France | www.reseau.malakoffmederic.com |
- Project name: Fostering Social Interactions for a Better Life of the Elderly
- Website:
- Coordinator: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2010
- Total budget: 2.879.451 €
- Public contribution: 1.871.030 €
Contact
Prof. Dr.-Ing Jürgen Ziegler & Steffen Budweg
T.: +49 203 379 – 2270