Track A – Deployment of AAL solutions

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The “Silver economy” is the notion that an ageing population is creating a demand for new services and products ranging from personalized care to age-friendly technologies, environments and other solutions that enable them to maintain healthy independent lives. Innovative ICT-based products, services and systems have a strong empowerment potential among older adults, creating better conditions of life as well as fostering industrial and business opportunities.
In spite of this capacity, often new initiatives fall short on their potential to deliver. Thus, one of the actual challenges is to ensure effective large scale deployment supported by a strong user integration of these solutions, bringing products and services to the European and global market and creating age-friendly societies.
This track is thought to present ways for reaching out new markets, the benefits of creating appropriate alliances bringing together commercial, academic and healthcare stakeholders and involving end users and citizens in the design and development of solutions.
The track will have 4 sessions:
A1. Reaching out new markets
A2. Gamification
A3. ECHAlliance Ecosystem
A4. Living labs
A5. IPR

A1 – Reaching out new markets

Session Chair: Luiza Spiru, FAAI, Romania
Session Responsible: Ioana Fagarasan, UEFISCDI,Romania

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) comprises interoperable concepts, products and services that combine new information and communication technologies (ICT) and social environments with the aim to improve and increase the quality of life for people in all stages of the life cycle. Several regional and national initiatives are emerging around Europe to support public and private investment, several providers are developing innovative AAL solutions, end-users are considered but new markets and opportunities must be addressed.
New markets as east European countries associated EU states or even non – EU members’ states must be considered. Knowing potential of the market, adapting to their needs and collaborating with possible stakeholders in the countries could be a good opportunity to reach out new markets.

Contributions:

A1-1 Commercialization of an assistance service for people with dementia in Eastern and Western Europe Viktoria Willner, Cornelia Schneider – Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H. (Austria) Omar Esli Jimenez Villarreal -YOOOM (The Netherlands) – download presentation
A1-2 Fitting adaptive real-time technology to the population and regional resources across the EU Stefan Carmien, Ainara Garzo – Tecnalia (Spain) – download presentation
A1-3 Testing Innovative E-Health Solutions in Romania Luiza Spiru, Ileana Turcu, Ligia Prisaca Manesi – Ana Aslan Internatonal Foundation (Romania) – download presentation
A1-4 Business opportunities for ICT systems in AAL field related to Romanian market Dr. Monica FLOREA – SC SIVECO Romania SA (Romania) – download presentation

A2 – Gamification

Session Chair: Anders Carlsson, New Tools for Health, Sweden
Session Responsible: Anders Carlsson, New Tools for Health, Sweden

Using the technique of gamification is primarily not about making games, even not so called “serious games”. It is rather about the use of game thinking and game mechanics in non-game contexts in order to engage users. It is applied in different domains to improve user engagement, data quality and learning. The key of gamification is the reward. Reward may be quantified and related to the completion of a task.
Gamification may be well suited in order to encourage older adults to start using assistive solutions well in advance of when they urgently need them. And, when they really need them they know how to use them.
The session should explain the techniques of gamification and give examples of well working solutions, preferably from the self-care field as well as from the field of stimulating physical activity in order to maintain health and mobility. Finally, a discussion will be held regarding how further applications of gamification may boost increased independence and further exploitation of assistive solutions for older adults.
Some specific questions to bring up for the discussion are:

To what regard differs the design of gamification solutions for older adults from gamification solutions in general, i.e. for younger people or other age groups? Is there a guideline of best practice?
Smartphones are obvious platforms for gamification, but what other existing and future platforms may be used?

Good examples of where gamification has been applied in order to encourage the use of assistive solutions.
Research made on best practice when applying the gamification technology to applications for older adults.

Invited Speakers:

Sebastian Deterding, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA – Key note introduction
Pamela M. Kato, Coventry University, United Kingdom (TBC) – Teaching through gamification – download presentation

Contributions:

A2-1 Serious Games Promoting Mobility versus Conventional Self-training for Elderly People Viviane Hasselmann, Kliniken Valens – GameUp (Switzerland) – download presentation
A2-2 Gamification on Users Daily Activities Bruno Aguiar – Fraunhofer Portugal – AICOS (Portugal) – download presentation

A3 – ECHAlliance Ecosystem

Session Chair: Brian O’Connor, European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance), United Kingdom
Session Responsible: Julien Venne, European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance), United Kingdom

One of the main challenges for Active and Healthy Ageing sector in Europe is to implement and deploy innovative solutions. Numbers of projects have been develop, the industries (large and SMEs) are offering a large range of technological products and innovative services, but there only a few public and/or private purchasers who circulate tenders, and only a few companies having a clear view of its business model. This is necessary to develop a real opportunity for Europe, creating economic growth and jobs.
In Europe, the decision centres for AAL & Health & social products & services purchase are at the regional level, with some guidance at the national level. That’s why the regional approach could be the good level to implement solutions. But each region has its own organisation, its own stakeholders, its own funding capacities. That’s why the ECHAlliance has built a methodology to develop ecosystems and supports National and Regional Governments to build Connected Health Ecosystems. Those Ecosystems are linked through the International Network of Connected Health Ecosystems.

Invited Speakers:

Ben Ramsay, Care Innovations, United Kingdom – Vision and benefits of the ecosystems and their network for a large company – download presentation
Mark Timoney, Northern Ireland Department of Health, Northern Ireland (TBC) – Example of pre-commercial procurement process supported by an ecosystem
Bleddyn Rees, Lawrence, Wragge, Lawrence Graham & Co, United Kingdom – Innovative contracts & public procurement for Health & Social care – download presentation

A4 – Living Labs

Session Chair: Ann Ackaert, iMindsHealth, Belgium
Session Responsible: Jerome Boudy, Telecom-Sud, France and Pietro Siciliano, CNR, Italy
In a living lab, a large number of users interact with new products and services in their daily life. This way the innovation process is pulled out of the lab and the demo context. A real-life setting is essential to find out whether a good idea or concept could form the basis of a successful product or service in the future. This allows for researchers to assemble user feedback and to systematically observe, monitor and analyze user behavior in a natural environment. This heavy user involvement distinguishes a living lab from traditional market and user research. It’s important to ensure that these kinds of living lab activities are based on a scientific research methodology in order to collect and scale up evidence in view of the benefit of AAL solutions and services.
Building up common methodologies and gathering concise evidence is improved through international co-operation. The ENoLL network gathers best practices and living lab experience throughout EU (www.openlivinglabs.eu). How can the AAL community learn and interact with the ENoLL network? Where does Care Living Labs differ from other living lab approaches?

Good examples of Living Labs with concrete first results and field experiencing feedback. Possibly give a quite wide spectrum of Living Labs categories.

Invited Speakers:
Birgit Morlion, iMindsHealth, Belgium – Flemish Care Living Labs: a good recipe for innovation? – download presentation

Contributions:

A4-1 The CASALA Living Lab – 4 Years On Julie Doyle, Lorcan Walsh – CASALA, Dundalk Institute of Technology (Ireland) – download presentation
A4-2 Sound environnment analysis for ADL detection from Living Lab to Medical Nursing Home Dan Istrate, Jerome Boudy, Dan Ovidiu Andrei and Said Mammar (France) – download presentation
A4-3 Robot-Era Project:Preliminary results of robotic service in smart environments with elderly people Raffaele Esposito, Filippo Cavallo, Paolo Dario – The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy)
Fiorella Marcellini, Roberta Bevilacqua, Elisa Felici – National Institute of Health and Science on Aging – I.N.R.C.A (Italy) – download presentation
A4-4 Deployment of AAL Solutions in Real Homes for a Living Lab Evaluation: Challenges and Lessons Learnt Jan Bobeth, Stephanie Deutsch, CURE – Center for Usability Research and Engineering (Austria) – download presentation

A5 – How to manage adequately IPR in AAL projects to get return on investment?

Session Chair: Raquel Fernandez Horcajada, AAL JP Central management Unit, Belgium
Session Responsible: Raquel Fernandez Horcajada, AAL JP Central management Unit, Belgium

This session will observe the role of IPR in the course of the overall R&D project period, with a particular market-oriented focus. The rationale is that a higher degree of awareness concerning IPR coupled with advance planning of commercialisation targets through a market-oriented focus is expected to maximise a given project’s impact, leverage its commercial potential and facilitate successful transfer of technologies to the market.

Invited Speakers:
Huseyin Kebapci, CX6 Ltd, United Kingdom – IPR in collaborative research and innovation Projects – download presentation
Stephen Von Rump, Giraff Technologies, Sweden – How we managed IPR in our AAL & FP7 projects – download presentation
Thorhallur Gudmundsson, Hospital Organiser AS, Norway – IPR case study in the commercialisation process of the project AAL Inclusion Society – download presentation