Session E5

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Session E5
Session title:		Fall Prevention
Session responsible:		Jerome Boudy – Reiner Wichert
Session chair:		Jerome Boudy
Date and time:		25 September 2012, 14:00 – 15:30 h
Session partners:		IBBT (An Jacobs, Karen Willems) IWT (Alain Thielemans) Telecom SudParis (Jerôme Boudy) CGIET / French Industry Office (Robert Picard, Bruno Charrat) UTT-Champagne-Ardennes Living Labs ActivAgeing initiative (Myriam Lewkowicz, Jacqques Duchene, David Hewson) ENoLL (Anna Kivilehto) Institut Catholic de Lille (Cédric Routier)
Room:		Pollux
Session Content
Rationale This session deals with the fall prevention problematic. Rationale an contents of this session are the following: Attempt to prevent rather to detect a fall or distress event risk for dependent alone persons living in their home (even if fall detection is still important) Address the different prevention strategies currently developed through advanced research projects Try to exploit the potential noticeable change/variation within a care receiver’s profile in his/her daily habits and/or health, nutritional, social exercise status. Afford more freedom and flexibility to the care receiver and his/her relatives (family, care givers..) by bringing him a better safety feeling and a positive mental Use common apparatus from the house through multimodality and/or smart home environments The session will present first a tutorial on Fall prevention and the work of four most relevant projects for this specific topic by brief presentations (15 or 10 min each). The remaining 15 minutes are reserved for discussion between the audience and the speakers. Preliminary program
10 min	Introduction by the chair
15 min	Tutorial presentation on Fall prevention, Prof. David Hewson, France
15 min	Ageing in balance – Working towards less falls among older adults. Milla Immonen, Patrik Eklund, Heidi Similä, Tuula Petäkoski-Hult, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Four Computing Oy Ab Ltd, Finland
10 min	Impact of end-user integration within the fearless project. Rainer Planinc, Martin Kampel, Michael Brandstötter, Computer Vision Lab, Vienna University of Technology, CogVis Software und Consulting GmbH, Vienna, Austria
10 min	User Requirements for an Ambient Event Detector: A Multi?Cultural Survey within the AAL Project FEARLESS. Stefan Ortlieb, Gaby Streffing and Claus-Christian carbon. Department of General Psychology and Methodology, University of Bamberg, Germany
15 min	iStoppFalls Dr. Rainer Wieching Institute of Information Systems, University of Siegen, Germany
15 min	Discussion and conclusions