Objective The project will develop a personal, user-centred enabling system, with services, for use by an elderly person in or out of the home, to mitigate the effects of any disability and to increase quality of life: independence, autonomy, mobility, communications, care and safety. The system will be based on a distributed open platform, enabling other services to be added by third parties, by "plugging" into defined interfaces. The platform includes a mobile phone, enabling the user to get out and about, for visiting, shopping, recreation, etc, whilst maintaining contact for help and services.Problems of everyday living to be addressed include:- using the phone;- raising the alarm in emergency to get help;- being monitored for health conditions, a fall, or sign of distress, with automatic raising of alarm;- labelling of medicine, and checking that it's taken;- turning things on and off around the house, and checking their status, e.g. for cooking.For a person with dementia:- knowing where you are, and what to do:- recognising somebody at the door to let them in;- being found if wandering.For somebody with poor eyesight:- shopping for things and subsequently identifying them;- checking details in small print.- writing text for messages;- reading text from messages.The aim of the project is to develop an open and highly accessible reference architecture, to which subsystems and services can be seamlessly added according to particular needs of elderly people and their carers.The system is built round a dual platform of mobile phone and wrist unit, to which will be added modular capabilities for:(1) alarm function,(2) control of appliances and other devices around the home,(3) identification of objects,(4) identifying the user's location,(5) health monitoring and(6) security.The project addresses mobile phone accessibility by providing a highly accessible user interface extension, using the wrist unit and speech guidance. Fields of science medical and health sciencesbasic medicineneurologydementiaengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2005-2.6.2 - Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in the Ageing Society Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN Address Karlsplatz 13 Wien Austria See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ABATEC - ELECTRONIC AG Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Oberregauerstrasse 48 4844 Regau See on map ACCESSEQUALITY TECHNOLOGY LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address 145-157 st.john street EC1V 4PY London See on map CARDIONETICS LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Centaur house, ancells business park GU13 8UJ Fleet, hampshire See on map CODE FACTORY, S.L. Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Calle rambla d'egara 148 2-2 08221 Terrassa See on map INFORMATION SOCIETY OPEN TO IMPAIRMENTS E-ISOTIS Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address 40 klitaimnistras 13122 Neon liosion See on map KOMPETENZNETZWERK INFORMATIONSTECHNOLOGIE ZUR FOERDERUNG DER INTEGRATION VON MENSCHEN MIT BEHINDERUNG Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hauptstrasse 119 4232 Hagenberg i.m. See on map THE UNIVERSITY OF READING United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Whiteknights RG6 6AH Reading See on map ZIVOT 90 Czechia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Karoliny svetle 18 11000 Praha 1 See on map
