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 ...
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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
HOMEdotOLD
The HOMEdotOLD project aims to provide a TV-based platform with cost-effective services that will be delivered in a personalised and intuitive way and will advance the social interaction of elderly ...
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HOMEdotOLD is an ICT-based project that uses the TV medium in order to deliver a number of cost-effective services to elderly people. The targeted services are expected to advance the social interaction of elderly people by bridging distances and reinforcing social voluntariness and activation, thus preventing isolation and loneliness.
The project main objectives are to provide a technological platform to provide services allowing the elderly to stay socially active and to bridging distances and supporting elderly people’s existing roles.
Expected results and impact
- Personal motivation services, i.e. services for staying socially active, preventing loneliness and isolation, enabling voluntariness, motivation and activation;
- Social networking services: i.e. services for bridging distances and supporting existing role;
- The business plan for the deployment of the HOMEdotOLD services;
Partners
Partners involved in the HOMEdotOLD project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| SingularLogic S.A. | SME | Greece | www.singularlogic.eu |
| A1 Telecom Austria | Large Industry | Austria | www.telekom.at |
| Philips Consumer Lifestyle B.V. | Large Industry | Netherlands | www.philips.com |
| TELETEL SA | Large Industry | Greece | www.teletel.eu |
| SOLINET GmbH Telecommunications | SME | Germany | www.solinet.com |
| THREE THIRDS SOCIETY | End User | Greece | |
| LifeTool gemeinnuetzige GmbH | SME | Austria | www.lifetool.at |
| National Foundation for the Elderly | End User | Netherlands | www.ouderenfonds.nl |
- Project name: Home services advancing the social interaction of elderly people
- Website: www.homedotold.eu
- Coordinator: SingularLogic S.A. Information Systems and Software Applications
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2010
- Total budget: € 3.305.458
- Public contribution: € 1.763,817
Objectives
The main objective of the proposed project is to provide the elderly people with the means of maintaining social relations by developing an easy to use and easy to understand communication platform with social and entertainment capabilities that can be easily upgraded with security and medical features. As a secondary objective we will address energy efficiency and the build-up of conscience by the elderly people, using the physical application and communication infrastructure to be put into place anyway, by providing information about the power consumption of the many devices at home, in an intuitive, entertaining and educative fashion.
Expected results and impact
The main goal is to develop a framework to facilitate the provision of relevant service on the relevant channel for households with elderly people. The inclusion of elderly people in the digital society has to begin with the most common channel and interface they are used to, the television, and then the applied types of communication channels may expand. Our goal is to enable elderly people and their family to share their everyday experiences and help them make use of existing and currently developed multimedia services to generate the sense of closeness and community belonging they are searching for.
Partners
Partners involved in the HELASCOL project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meticube | R&D | Portugal | www.meticube.com |
| Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI) | R&D | Switzerland | www.supsi.ch |
| Fondazione Casa per Anziani Giubiasco (FCPA) | End User | Switzerland | www.fcpa.ch |
| Kecelcom Kft. | SME | Hungary | kecelcom.hu |
| Kapsch Businesscom Kft. | R&D | Hungary | www.kapsch.net |
| Kecel Local Government | End User | Hungary | www.kecel.hu |
- Project name: HELASCOL – “Helping elders to live an active and socially connected life by involving them in the digital society”
- Coordinator: Kecelcom Kft.
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 03.05.2012
- Total budget:€ 1.492.120
- Public contribution: € 1.132.870
Contact
ELDER-SPACES
Overall, Elder-Spaces will make sure that the platform appeals to people who are not familiar with technology without making users technophobes; on the contrary Elder- Spaces will be proposed as a ...
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The main goal of the Elder-Spaces project is to introduce a radical shift on the way social networking is delivered to and used by older adults (typically healthy individuals aged 55+), with a view to stimulate seniors to join social networks and accordingly benefit in terms of their social activation, active living and overall quality of life.
To this end, Elder Spaces will design a novel ICT based social networking platform (beyond existing networks for seniors) along with a range of applications that will be delivered over this platform.
Expected results and impact
Elder-Spaces will provide a range of applications (over the project’s social networking platform) tailored to the needs of older user groups based on:
- Appropriate data sets, semantics and information;
- Customised social networking functionalities (based on the above data sets), such as groups, games and training programmes;
- Appropriate older people friendly user interfaces, such as ergonomic devices and interaction modalities;
- The business plan for the deployment of the Elder-Spaces applications will be developed at the end of the project.
Partners
Partners involved in the Elder-Spaces project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ΒΥΤΕ COMPUTER S.A | SME | Greece | www.byte.gr |
| ORIGO Ltd. | Large Industry | Hungary | www.origo.hu |
| Evangelische Stiftung Volmarstein, Forschungsinstitut Technologie und Behinderung | SME | Germany | ftb-esv.de |
| ANAPTYXIAKI ETAIREIA DIMOU TRIKKAION ANAPTYXIAKI ANONYMI ETAIREIA OTA - E-TRIKALA AE | SME | Greece | www.e-trikala.gr |
| Semmelweis University | Large Industry | Hungary | www.semmelweis-univ.hu |
| SingularLogic Information Systems & Software Applications S.A. | End User | Greece | www.singularlogic.eu |
| Cybion Srl | SME | Italy | www.cybion.it |
- Project name: Managing Older People Social Relationships for better Communication, Activation and Interaction
- Coordinator: BYTE Computer S.A, Greece
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2011
- Total budget: € 2.423.859
- Public contribution: € 1.201.718
Objectives
The overall objective for the E2C consortium is to develop, test and deploy a web service, which stimulates and facilitates personal storytelling, and enable interest‐based connections and communication among elders and thereby empower them and enrich their life.
The E2C project focuses on finding a solution to the very challenging issues:
- Preventing the internal experience of loneliness
- Develop a new innovative solution for an emergent EU market for “preventive social technology”
- Creating implementation strategies that allow the solution a place in the service ecology of elderly care
Expected results and impact
Play with your life will:
- turn memories into something concrete that helps remembering the beauty of life and connecting the life to come with what has already been;
- bring (grand-)parents and (grand-)children closer together make web storytelling valuable to siblings and/or cousins;
- promote inter-generational connections;
Play with your life will make elderly people the owners of their own needs and provide tool for dealing with them – together and in a fun, non-stigmatising way. By doing so Play with your life will exempt the public sector for obligations, which it in the first place is not well suited to fulfil.
Partners
Partners involved in the E2C project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copenhagen Living Lab | SME | Denmark | www.copenhagenlivinglab.com |
| Waag Society | SME | Netherlands | www.waag.org |
| Forum Virium Helsinki | R&D | Finland | www.forumvirium.fi |
| Laurea | R&D | Finland | www.laurea.fi |
| Halmstad University | R&D | Sweden | www.halmstadlivinglab.se |
| Substanz | SME | Denmark | www.substanz.dk |
| Heutink | SME | Netherlands | www.heutink.nl |
| Multimedia tables BV | SME | Netherlands | www.verhalentafel.nl |
| Öresund Living Lab | R&D | Sweden | www.oresund.org |
| Halmstad Municipality | End User | Sweden | www.halmstad.se |
- Project name: Express to Connect
- Website: www.express2connect.org
- Coordinator: Copenhagen living Lab, Denmark
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2010
- Total budget: € 3.256.975
- Public contribution: € 1.776.369
Contact
Thomas Hammer-Jakobsen
E.: hamm@copenhagenlivinglab.com
T.: + 45 2023 2005
Objectives
ConnectedVitality – The Personal Telepresence Network (CVN) – aims to link groups of senior citizens into a video communication network, enabling them to choose the activity as well as levels of social interaction according to their individual needs, abilities and lifestyle.
Expected results and impact
We believe that with the creation of a new generation of multi point videoconferencing formats tuned to the personal preferences of elderly. In which up to 50 people can interact and conduct social meaningful activities with each other, a new vision on meaningful contact over distance will arise.
This project was featured in the book: “Designed Technologies for Healthy Aging” which is expected by March 31 2014, published by Morgan and Claypool Publishers (ISBN-10: 1627053174).
Partners
Partners involved in the CVN project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| PresenceDisplays | SME | The Netherlands | www.confidence4you.eu |
| FASS | SME | Spain | |
| University of Salzburg | R&D | Austria | www.uni-salzburg.at |
| University of Cyprus | R&D | Cyprus | www.ucy.ac.cy |
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics | R&D | Hungary | www.bme.hu |
| Sensire | End User | The Netherlands | www.sensire.nl |
- Project name: ConnectedVitalityNetwork
- Website: www.connectedvitality.eu
- Coordinator: PresenceDisplays, The Netherlands
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2010
- Total budget: € 2.518.060
- Public contribution: € 1.938.920
Objectives
EasyReach targets in:
- Keeping people socially active, increasing the number and the quality of contacts proposing users to join new groups;
- Supporting elder people in becoming the leader of a group of people he or she is “consulting” for on the basis of past work experience, by creating the right frameworks to pass along the knowledge that comes with experience:
- Helping a user remembering and organizing activities of any kind (not only the social interaction activities that are provided by EasyReach);
- Managing the interaction between a real community and a person that belonged to that community but, for physical reasons, cannot participate anymore;
Expected results and impact
EasyReach requires and will bring an advancement of knowledge in three areas:
- Breaking the remote control usability barrier: going beyond on/off, changing channels and volume controls;
- Devising new IT social interaction models.
- Investigating automatic ways of supporting user interaction.
Partners
Partners involved in the EasyReach project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Università di Milano-Bicocca | R&D | Italy | www.unimib.it |
| Fondazione Ugo Bordoni | R&D | Italy | www.fub.it |
| Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - ISTC | R&D | Italy | www.istc.cnr.it |
| FIMI S.r.l. | Large Industry | Italy | www.barco.com |
| Center for Research and Technology | R&D | Greece | www.cereteth.gr |
| iKnowHow | SME | Greece | www.iknowhow.gr |
| University of Potsdam | R&D | Germany | www.uni-potsdam.de |
| Federazione Nazionale Pensionati CISL | End User | Italy | www.fnp.cisl.it |
- Project name: EasyReach – Fostering social interactions of home-bound and less educated elderly people
- Website: www.easyreach-project.eu
- Coordinator: University of Milano Bicocca
- Duration: 28 Months
- Starting Date: 01.112010
- Total budget: € 3.190.173
- Public contribution: € 1.582.887
Contact
Dr. Matteo Alessandro Dominoni
E.: matteo.dominoni@disco.unimib.it
T.: +39 02 96175237
Objectives
The main objective of ExCITE is to evaluate user requirements of social interaction that enables embodiment through robotic telepresence. This evaluation is performed on a Pan-European scale and with a longitudinal perspective. An existing prototype is deployed to the targeted end users, and is refined by tightly involving the users in the development cycles of the prototype throughout the project.
The technology used in the evaluation is called the Giraff robot, a telepresence device that allows anyone – professional caregivers, family and friends to virtually visit a home, move about freely and communicate with residents via videoconferencing technology.
Expected results and impact
The ExCITE project will achieve a breakthrough in the application of telerobotics to elderly care by developing a low-cost, easy-to-use device with practical functionality. By focusing on simple audio-visual communications via a mobile platform, the Giraff achieves practicality and a price point that enables large-scale home deployment. By focusing on the main objective of user involvement and assessment of requirements, it will also be an eminently usable device.
The project is also expected to allow researchers in clinical and academic fields to advance their understanding of acceptable forms for social interaction in the ageing process.
Partners
Partners involved in the ExCITE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Örebro University | R&D | Sweden | www.oru.se/nt |
| Giraff AB | SME | Sweden | www.giraff.org |
| Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ISTC | R&D | Italy | www.istc.cnr.it |
| RatioConsulta SpA | SME | Italy | www.ratioconsulta.it |
| University of Malaga | R&D | Spain | www.uma.es |
| Örebro City Council | End User | Sweden | www.orebro.se |
- Project name: Enabling Social Interaction through Embodiment
- Website: www.excite-project.eu
- Coordinator: Silvia Cordeschi, Örebro University, Sweden
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2010
- Total budget: € 2.853.701
- Public contribution: € 1.448.430
Contact
Silvia Cordeschi
E.: silvia.coradeschi@oru.se
T.: +4619303298
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