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AALIANCE was funded within the specific programme "Cooperation" and the research theme "ICT" of the 7th European Framework Programme.

 
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Conference Programme

AALIANCE Conference Chairs

  • Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna, Pisa
  • Wolfgang Gessner, AALIANCE Coordinator, VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH, Berlin 
  • Günter Lugert, Siemens AG

Venue

Malaga University - Vice-Chancellor´s Office, Avda. Cervantes, 2  

 

Programme Day 1: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 09.00 - 21.30 h

 

09:00

Registration and welcome coffee

Opening: Wolfgang Gessner, AALIANCE co-ordinator

10.00        

Session 1: “Enabling Technologies for Ambient Assisted Living”
Chair: Filippo Cavallo, Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna 

1.       Open OSGI Middleware to integrate Wireless Sensor Devices into Ambient Assisted Living environments
Presenter: David Conde Baena, Centro Andaluz de Innovación y tecnologias de la Información y las Communicaciones (CITIC)

2.       A 3D Range Vision System for Abnormal Behavior Monitoring of Elderly People in Ambient Assisted Living Applications
Presenter: Alessandro Leone, Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM) – Italian National Research Council (CNR)

3.       ExCITE: Enabling Social Interaction through Embodiment
Presenter: Silvia Coradeschi, Head of the Academy of Science and Technology, Orebro University

4.       Ontologies and Reasoning for Ambient Assisted Living
Presenter: Immanuel Normann, University of Bremen, Germany

5.       Look4MySounds – Sound Platform for Remote Auscultation
Presenter: Helena Catarina Pereira, ISA / Intellicare – Intelligent Sensing Anywhere, Portugal

6.       Building AAL services using the MILEO Context Server
Presenter: Manfred Wojciechowski, Fraunhofer-Institut für Software- und Systemtechnik

7.       Preliminary characterization of an indoor localization system using a ZigBee-based sensor network and a triaxial accelerometer
Presenter: M. Aquilano, ARTS Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

12:00

Opening session - Wolfgang Gessner, AALIANCE coordinator

Zoran Stančič, Deputy Director General, European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General

José Martinez Olmos, General Secretary for Health, Spanish Ministry of Health and Social Policy

Christian Wehrmann, Governmental co-ordinator of the Joint Programming Initiative "More Years, Better Lives", German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Rafael de Andrés Medina, Instituto de Salud Carlos III under the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation; Treasurer of the Executive Board of the AAL Association

María Jesús Montero Cuadrado, Regional Minister of Health of Andalusia

Adelaida de la Calle, Rector of the University of Málaga

Jose Luis Ripoll, President Fundación Vodafone España 

13:00

Lunch break

14:00

Session 2: “AAL System Architectures”
Chair: Pietro Siciliano, Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, IMM-CNR 

1.       openAAL - the open source middleware for ambient-assisted living (AAL)
Presenter: Peter Wolf, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universität Karlsruhe

2.       Intelligent Furniture and Their Ubiquitous Use Scenarios,
Presenter: Sauli Kivikunnas, VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland

3.       The PERSONA AAL Platform: Deployment in the Italian Pilot Site of Bardi
Presenter: Michele Amoretti, R&S Info S.r.l.

15.00

Session 3: “The Role of the User in AAL”
Chair: Liz Mestheneos, President AGE-Platform

1.       A "users" point of view and that of their carers relating to the AALIANCE Roadmap
Presenter: Angela Cluzel, E.D.E.

2.       Senior citizen as a consumer – genuine consumer research studies as a precondition for successful business models in the service sector
Presenter: Hanna-Greta Puurtinen, Lic.Tech., Tampere University of Applied Sciences

3.       The personalization of care technology
Presenter: Michiel Besters or Lotte Asveldm, Rathenau Institute

4.       Perception and use of new technologies by residents and staff in an institutional context: Data from the project BETAGT
Presenter: Katrin Claßen, Department of Psychological Ageing Research Institute of Psychology, University of Heidelberg

16.00

Coffee break

16:30

Session 4: “The Role of Standards and Interoperability in AAL”
Chair: Ger van den Broek, Philips 

1.       Alliance for an AAL Open Service Platform
Presenter: Antonio Kung, Trialog

2.       The OpenHealth FLOSS Implementation of the ISO/IEEE 11073-20601 Standard
Presenter: Ander Altuna, Andago Labs

3.       Reusing the Telecom infrastructure to deploy efficient and adaptable home health-care solutions
Presenter: Pedro Saleiro, Fraunhofer Portugal Research Center for Assistive Information and Communication Solutions

17.30

Poster session

19:30

Evening reception


 

Programme Day 2: Friday, 12 March 2010, 09.00 - 15.00 h

 

09:00

Keynote: "Assistance and service robotics - current status and technological perspectives"

Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna, Pisa

09:20        

Session 5: “Health, Rehabilitation and Care services”
Chair: Johan E. Bengtsson, Luleå Tekniska Universitet

1.       CommonWell: Improving Quality of Life for Older People and Support Independent Living Through Integration of Health and Social Care.
Presenter: Pablo Quiñones, Fundacíon Andaluza de Servicios Sociales

2.       The HELP Project: Innovation and integration on Sensors for Parkinson’s Disease Management.
Presenter: Maria Elena Cruz-Martin, Telefónica Research and Development

3.       TeleREHA: Investigation and Development of Rehabilitation Platform fo Home Use and Tele-Rehabilitation.
Presenter: Thierry Keller, Fatronik-Tecnalia

10:20

Session 6: “Activity Management Services”
Chair: Wolfgang Putz, Fraunhofer Society 

1.       Easy physical exercise application for the elderly' instead of the suggested 'Touch screen system for exercising and its monitoring.
Presenter: Salla Muuraiskangas, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

2.       Healthy Aging using Physical Activity Monitoring.
Presenter: Gustaf Hendeby, German Center for Artificial Intelligence

3.       Assistive Technologies for Supporting People with Dementia.
Presenter: Thomas Frenken, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology 

11:20

Coffee break

11.50

Session 7: “Silver Age Services”
Chair: Michael C. Balasch, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories

1.       WILL - A Corporate Driven Living Lab for Innovation in the field of Ambient Assisted Working.
Presenter: David Wewetzer, Technologie-Zentrum Informatik und Informationstechnik (TZI)

2.       Mobile Systems and Services for Guidance of Dependant People.
Presenter: Alfonso Dominguez, Fundación Robotiker

3.       Connecting Communities: Co-designing Accessible Communication Technologies with Older Adults.
Presenter: David Prendergast, Intel Digital Health 

12.50

Session 8: “Economic Scenarios and Business Models”
Chair:
Thomas Baehren, Robert Bosch GmbH 

1.       AAL-business models: Different Prospects for the Successful Implementation of Innovative Services in the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Market
Presenter: Michael Hewing, Freie Universität Berlin

2.       Commercial and non-commercial deployment options created by the European AAL-Project PERSONA
Presenter: Peter Rumm, FutureCamp Holding GmbH

3.       A Market of Pilots: Exploring the role of consumers and design in the development of a mass market for ambient assisted living technologies
Presenter: Simon Roberts, Digital Health Group, Intel Corporation

4.       Only available for download: Projections of Future Long-Term Care Expenditure in Austria (2008-2030) with Special Consideration of Assistive Technologies
Authors: Ulrike Schneider, Clemens Buchinger

13.50

Final statements

Industry: Vivian Aplas, Siemens AG

European Commission: Peter Wintlev-Jensen, Head of Sector ICT & Ageing, DG Information Society and Media

Wrap-up and closing remarks
Wolfgang Gessner, VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH, AALIANCE co-ordinator

14.20

Conference Closing Session

Juan Carlos Ramiro, General Director of Inclusion Policy, Spanish Ministry of Health and Social Policy

Francisco Trigueros, Secretariat General of University, Innovation and Technology; Regional Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Enterprise of Andalusia

Rafael Morales, Vice-Rector on Infrastructure and Sustainability of University of Málaga

Santiago Moreno, General Director Fundación Vodafone España

14.30

Farewell Lunch