WORKSHOP: ICT AND AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE TOOLS IN NEW EU COUNTRIES |
| Date,place: | 9th–10th June, 2008, Košice, Herlany, Slovak Republic |
| Type of activity: | Workshop and forum for experts from new EU countries involved in different areas of ICT services for elderly, Ambient Intelligence, and Home automation. |
| Description: | The Technological University of Košice organised the workshop with invited speakers from 12 countries. They presented the current situation and development plans in their countries. See the following 6 courses for MonAMI partners' presentations |
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Open Service Architecture |
Objective: | Topics to be addressed: MonAMI objectives and definition of mainstream services, methodology for new service creation, service deconstruction and deconstruction provided by networks, MonAMI service platform architecture and technologies: OSGi, Zigbee, URC, and sensor monitoring networks |
| Presenter: | Bruno Jean-Bart, Trialog, France |
| Description: |  Open Service Architecure |
Educative Games |
Objective: | The objective is to present different types of graphical computer games, mostly in Flash software aimed to be used for entertainment, additional education programmes, rehabilitation, socialisation of grandparents and grand children. Games are available on the Internet. |
| Presenter: | Dusan Simsik, Robert Honcariv, Alena Galajdova, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia |
| Description: | Educative Games |
Presentation of the MonAMI Project: Mainstreaming on Ambient Intelligence |
Objective:
| The objective is to present EU information society policy supporting the development of ICT-based services for elderly and persons with disabilities. Topics to be addressed: EU Information Society policy, European Union institutions, EU policy activities in eInclusion, current research: Seventh Framework Programme, Ambient Assisted Living, The MonAMI project: objective, participants, activities |
| Presenter: | Gunnar Fagerberg (Swedish Institute of Assistive Technology) |
| Description: | MonAMI project |
Smart Home Environment: Services and Technologies for Activity Recognition and Person Monitoring |
Objective:
| The objective is to present different types of sensors for user activity recognition, user localization and home automation services. Topics to be addressed: Introduction to sensors for activity recognition, user localization and home automation, RFID sensor, installation and usage, accelerometer activity recognition, video surveillance with fish eye camera, sensor for water flow measurement, touchless control sensor, and combination of sensor data to recognize more complex user activities |
| Presenter: | Paul Lukowicz, Gerald Bauer (University of Passau) |
| Description: | Monitoring |
Services and Technology for Person Localisation and Activities Monitoring |
Objective:
| The objective is to present the functionalities, installation and programming of services and technology kits developed by the University of Zaragoza. Topics to be addressed: Unizar Kit: Electric Augmentation and Monitoring, WiiEmulator Kit: Emulating input devices (mouse, keyboard, execute applications) through Wiimote and Nunchuck, and Techndiscap: research group of Univ. Of Zaragoza |
| Presenter: | Roberto Casas, Luis Lain, Alvaro Marco, Jorge Falcó, Roberto Casas, Yolanda Garrido, University of Zaragoza, Spain |
| Description: | Sensors |
User Oriented Approach in Creative Design of Services |
Objective:
| Topics to be addressed: Wii technology Design methods, participative design, value sensitive design, design for all, universal design, usercentered design, critical design, affective design, focus on the activity, the phone -talk, contact another person, ethno-inspired methods, video-prototype, scenarios, physical prototype and demonstration |
| Presenter: | Helena Tobiasson, KTH, Sweden |
| Description: | Service Design |
The Integration of the i2Home Universal Control Hub and the MonAMI OSGi Gateway |
| Date place: | 31 March - 2 April 2008; Paris, France |
| Presenter: | Trialog, Meticube (a member of the i2Home project)
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| Objective: | Define the integration of the i2Home universal control hub (UCH) and the MonAMI OSGi gateway. First i2Home presents the technical aspects of its UCH. Then Trialog presents of the technical aspects of the MonAMI OSGi gateway. The final day is a brainstorming session to
start the specification of the integration of the UCH and the OSGi gateway. |
| Description: | Integration i2home UCH and MonAMI Gateway |
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