Munich

IEEE Healthcom 2016
BMW World

16 September

running between
09:00 and 14:00

9 Speakers

Research meets Technical Experts and End User

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1st International Workshop on Open Platforms in the Field of Independent Living and Active Ageing

Europe is ageing. As a consequence products and services, which support active ageing are increasingly overflowing the market. Many of these products and services comprise IoT (Internet of Things) and IoS (Internet of Services) that can track, monitor and support health and wellbeing at home and on the road. They are often build up by components or products of different providers with different or no industrial standards. Solutions are difficult to integrate due to these interoperability-issues and they are scattered on the market. This makes it for businesses and developers difficult to expand their offer. And for consumers it is difficult to choose the solutions that can best support their health and wellbeing according to their specific needs.

The ALFRED project organizes a workshop in collaboration with invited speakers to present and discuss:

- possibilities for interoperability and open frameworks to bring solutions together
- research results concerning interoperability and standards in the field of active ageing
- needs of end users of technology and how these can be tackled within research
- business modelling and implementation of active ageing solutions in the market solutions, offered by a global player

  • Serious Games for Personalized Health(care)
    Serious Games are games using game technologies and concepts combined with further ICT technologies and domain relevant concepts, applied in a broad spectrum from application domains ranging from educational games and game-based training and simulation environments to social awareness games or games for health. ALFRED presents a status quo of serious games/health games and introduces a metadata based information system to describe and find appropriate health games, matching the needs of individuals.

    Speaker: Dr. Stefan Göbel, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

  • Sensor Abstraction Framework Architecture for Wearable Devices
    The adoption of health and wellness devices that track user's fitness activities such as sleeping habits, body temperature and heart rate has been significant during last years. This trend is continuously expanding with set of wearable devices and mHealth apps. This forces the industry to innovate and integrate them as part of the care as well as the digital gap among digital immigrants is reducing. ALFRED contributes to reduce this gap by a new architecture that allows managing different sensor sources in an easy way for older users giving at the same time secure mechanisms.

    Speaker: Josue Ferri, AITEX (Textile Industry Research Association), Spain

  • TDM: An Open Dialogue Platform for Active Ageing
    TDM is a platform for spoken and chat based dialogue systems. During the ALFRED project, the platform have been extended in order to increase its competitiveness:
    - Flexibility in language: Resource grammars ensure that TDM can easily be extended to support more languages
    - Flexibility in coverage: Dialogue domains can be plugged in and out of TDM just like apps
    The presentation covers the basics of the TDM platform and a focused deep-dive into the mentioned features, from the perspective of a dialogue systems developer.

    Speaker: Dr. Frederik Kronlid, Talkamatic AB, Sweden

  • Containers as a Service with Docker to Extend an Open Platform
    ALFRED was envisioned from the start with an app marketplace to act as an open platform. Following the “Privacy by Design” approach it was clear that the open platform needs to be a closed system to enforce that the end user stays in full control of his data, those drastically limiting the possibilities for third parties to extend the user experience. In the past, the deployment of different web services was linked with major efforts as each web service could use fine differences in the stack, resulting in incompatibilities and conflicts. Containerisation with Docker overcomes this issue; allowing web services to be handled as easily as Apps. Can this approach be the future to extend closed systems?

    Speaker: Tobias Hardes, M.Sc, Ascora GmbH, Germany

  • Coffee Break
    Time for a short break. Relax and enjoy a cup of freshly brewed coffee. :-)

  • Presentation of ICT4Life

    TBA

    Speaker: Alejandro Sánchez-Rico, Artica Telemedicina

  • Interoperability in the Field of AAL. Integration Profiles and Latest Results
    A key requirement for the success of AAL systems is that they can be extended and maintained over time, growing and adapting to the changing needs of the user. This can only be achieved with modular solutions, where components can be combined in a flexible manner. The “AAL-JP Support Action on Standards and Interoperability in the Field of AAL” has designed a number of integration profiles to demonstrate how this interoperability challenge in AAL can be successfully addressed. Integration profiles start from an end-user perspective, describe systems and components, interfaces and interactions and provide a mapping to communication standards. The talk will also give an overview on latest results in this field, with a special focus on working scenarios.

    Lars Rölker-Denker, Offis e.V., Germany

  • Market Opportunities in Active Ageing and eHealth
    Too few proven business models are key barrier to mHealth access to the market. This is aggravated even more if we are in the field of ageing and ICT. The best approach to such challenge is to use a Lean Startup methodology that helps to validate your ideas with your customers and, eventually, to adjust your product/service' ideas and/or your initial business concept. The session briefly recap the main drivers and barriers for mHealth to enter the market and illustrate the main steps that have been taken within ALFRED project to create a value based product/service.

    Speaker: Federica Righi, IESE Business School, Spain

  • Involvement of End Users in Design and Development of Products for Active Ageing
    Within the EU-funded project ALFRED the development of prototypes was accompanied by iterative evaluations. These evaluations are a continuous process to ensure that project results can be easily used by older people. The tests were conducted over three cycles in France, Germany and the Netherlands. The tests evaluated the voice interaction of older adults with the system, a serious game for physical activation, a sensor t-shirt to monitor vital data, a marketplace solution as well as several other usability issues. User satisfaction was generally on a high level and ongoing field tests will evaluate the real world benefits of the system under realistic conditions.

    Speaker: Dr. Florian Feldwieser, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Forschungsgruppe Geriatrie

  • Close
    This is a sad part because the workshop ends and you will have to wait for at least another year in order to meet us again... :-(

Schedule

As mobile devices, such as tablets and smart phones, are becoming an integral part of our lives, opportunities are rising for applications on mobile devices that can support older people to live independently. This workshop will go further into the opportunities and challenges when it comes to developing mobile apps for supporting older people in their daily life. Experiences from different projects are commented and best practices are interchanged from different perspectives. The schedule on the left side shows you an insight about the different discussions. Please click on an entry to get more information.

Organizers and Speaker

Experiences from different projects are commented and best practices are interchanged from different perspectives. The workshop is a joint undertaking of the AAL related RTD projects ALFRED and ICT4Life with guest a speaker from OFFIS. The workshop will go beyond the pure state of the art presentation by providing an outlook to overcome technical challenges of Open Platforms in the AAL domain. It will bring together experts from the user, scientific and technical perspectives and follow a cross-disciplinary approach between the IT and the End User view.

Speaker 1

ALFRED

Assistant for Independent Living and Active Ageing. more...

Speaker 2

ICT4Life

ICT services for Life Improvement for the Elderly. more...

Speaker 3

OFFIS

Institut für Information. more...

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