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	About the project   Project team   Project news   Publications/Dissemination   Further reading		Home / Site map About the project Context and SOPRANO approach SOPRANO objectives Leaflet SOPRANO Advisory Board Project team EXODUS S.A. (Coordinator) Tunstall Telecom Ltd SingularLogic Software Anonymos Etairia Mechanografikon Efarmogon CAS Software AG empirica Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Technologieforschung mbH PROSYST SOFTWARE GMBH Dialoc ID Technology BV Smart Homes - Dutch Expertise Centre for Smart Technology and Smart Living FUNDACIÓN ROBOTIKER INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH - TNO Institute for Language and Speech Processing Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universität Karlsruhe University Stuttgart, Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management CENTRO DE TECNOLOGÍAS DE INTERACCIÓN VISUAL Y COMUNICACIONES VICOMTECH Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung e.V. UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA, FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Fundación Instituto Gerontológico Matia - INGEMA University of Liverpool Stichting Verzorging & Verpleging Eindhoven – De Archipel FASS - Andalusian Social Services Foundation Work Research Centre Ltd. London Borough of Newham West Lothian Council Simon Fraser University Project news openAAL version 1.0 now online Eindhoven lab SOPRANO conference 2009: Ambient Assisted Living- Promising concepts for designing user-friendly technologies Second SOPRANO Advisory Board meeting, 18th November 2009 openAAL - The open source middleware for ambient-assisted living (AAL) Evaluation in demonstration homes and real-life settings Results from SOPRANO components tests Results from first cycle of user involvement Results from requirements elicitation SOPRANO’s Iterative development approach Ontology-centred Design of an Ambient Middleware for Assisted Living 9th European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology co-organised by SOPRANO partners Ingema and Vicomtech Use Case Development and Participatory Requirements Engineering Conjoint SOPRANO and PERSONA Workshop conducted at AmI-07 Conference SOPRANO’s first SAB meeting in Brussels- lively discussions gave food for thought SOPRANO presented at the International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence (ICADI) in St.Petersburg, Florida, USA Designing user-centred methods for generating innovation Results from SOPRANO’s first user iteration presented at the 6th Conference of the International Society for Gerontology Next phase of user tests to start in November 2008 SOPRANO multimedia demonstrators online SOPRANO WP5.2 Kick Off Meeting held in Darmstadt, Germany SOPRANO, PERSONA, NETCARITY & MPOWER – Second conjoint Workshop on AAL as part of the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI-08) WP 5.2 “Second phase prototype testing”, Pre-tests successfully held SOPRANO Plenary Meeting in Athens SOPRANO will be presented at the second AAL Congress in Berlin SOPRANO presented at the 2nd German AAL Congress in Berlin WP 5.2 “Second phase prototype testing”, User sessions are completed SOPRANO WP5.3 meeting Plenary meeting in Ljubljana SOPRANO conference to be held in November 2009 Publications/Dissemination Public Deliverables D1.1.1: Review of HCI concepts and E&AR D1.1.2: Review State-of-the-art and market analysis D1.1.3: Review of social, regulatory and cultural aspects D1.2.1: The SOPRANO Advisory Board List of Members D6.2.4.1: E&AR Progress Report (1st year) D6.4.2.1: Yearly Dissemination report (1st year) Publications G. Virone, A. Sixsmith (2008): "Toward Information Systems for Ambient Assisted Living A. Schmidt, P. Wolf, M. Klein and D. Balfanz (2008): SOPPRANO Ambient Middleware: Eine offene, flexible und marktorientierte semantische Diensteplattform für Ambient Assisted Living F. Lull and S. Müller (2008): "Eine Lösung für Alle? Bedarfsorientierte Gestaltung von AALKomponenten am Beispiel eines Anwendungsfalls zur Gedächtnisunterstützung V. Dolnicar, S. Müller and M. Santi (2008): Designing technologies for the older people: Userdriven research approach of the SOPRANO project I. Bierhoff and A. van Berlo (2008): More intelligent smart houses for better care and health I. Bierhoff and P. Panis (2008): Active Involvement Of Older Users In The Design Process Of Smart Home Technology D. Balfanz, M. Klein, A. Schmidt and M. Santi (2008): Partizipative Entwicklung einer Middleware für AAL-Lösungen. Eliciting user requirements for ambient assisted living- SOPRANO presentation at eChallenges Conference 2008 in Stockholm G.Virone, and A. Sixsmith (2008): "Monitoring Activity Patterns and Trends of Older Adults," T. Athanaselis, S. Bakamidis, K. Mamouras and I. Dologlou (2008): Sentence-level Evaluation Using Co-occurences of N-grams A.J. De Jong and L. Anitori (2008): Life-sign detection with FMCW radar Y. Verginadis, P. Gouvas, T. Bouras and G. Mentzas (2008): Conceptual Modelling of Service - Oriented Programmable Smart Assistive Environments A. Sixsmith and S. Mueller (2008): User requirements for Ambient Assisted Living: Results of the SOPRANO project. P. Panis: Domotica en ouderen (2008): wat is de rol van ouderen in de ontwikkeling van nieuwe technologie? P. Wolf, A. Schmidt and M. Klein (2008): SOPRANO - An extensible, open AAL platform for elderly people based on semantical contracts C. Kunze, A. Schmidt, C. Holtmann and W. Stork (2008): Kontextsensitive Technologien und intelligente Sensorik fur Ambient-Assisted-Living-Anwendungen. E. Avatangelou, R. Febo Dommarco, M. Klein, S. Mueller, C.F. Nielsen, M.P. Sala Soriano, A. Schmidt, M.-R. Tazari, and R. Wichert (2007): Conjoint PERSONA-SOPRANO Workshop. M. Santi, A. Schmidt, W. Beinhauer, M. Klein and J. Link (2007): SOPRANO- Partizipative Entwicklung dienstorientierter Infrastrukturen fur das Ambient Assisted Living. P. Gouvas, A. Bouras, G. Mentzas (2007): An OSGi-based Semantic Service-Oriented Device Architecture V. Dolnicar and V. Vehovar (2007): An Integral Methodological Approach Towards Measuring the Dynamics of the Basic Digital Divide. G. Giannopoulos and P. Zervas (2007): A Prosodic Feature Extraction Engine for Data-Driven Speech Synthesis of Greek Language. T. Athanaselis, S. Bakamidis and I. Dologlou (2007): Evaluating ASR confidence score performance in different noisy conditions. M. Klein, A. Schmidt and R. Lauer (2007): Ontology-centred Design of an Ambient Middleware for Assisted Living. Presentations Posters Newsletters Further reading News external to the project December 2009: The ICT&Ageing project organises an international expert workshop “European RTD in the field of ICT & Ageing: Lessons learned & issues for the future” December 2009: New empirica study now available on the European Commission's web site July 2009: FASS up to 100,000 telecare deployments April 2009: ICT & Ageing Project held a Workshop on “Ethics in the Field of ICT-enabled Independent Living”, April 2009 in Brussels April 2009: European Commission published the Ageing Communication 2009 - a renewed strategy for tackling Europe’s demographic challenge. March 2009: ICT & Ageing Project held second international workshop on "Market Barriers for Uptake of ICTs for Independent Living and Active Ageing at Home", March 2009 in Brussels January 2009: New AALIANCE Newsletters published December 2008: ICT & Ageing Project published a handout with Preliminary Findings and made Country profiles online available November 2008: Commission adopts communication on telemedicine October 2008: First AALIANCE Newsletter 01/2008 published October 2008: OASIS 1st International Workshop – 10 October 2008 September 2008: AAL Policy Workshop in Brussels on 25-26 September 2008 September 2008: ICT & Ageing project: Clustering workshop on 9 September 2008 in Brussels August 2008: Technically Assisted Rehabilitation featured in “mstnews” August 2008: New CORDIS website on Article 169 initiatives August 2008: MeAC country profiles available August 2008: Public Online Consultation on Web Accessibility and other aspects of e-Accessibility March 2008: Carers UK Believes Telecare is Key to the Future of Social Care March 2008: New Guide Offers Support for the 700,000 People in the UK with Dementia, and their Carers December 2007: News on Ambient Assisted Living November 2007: Competitiveness Council agrees on AAL October 2007: AAL association founded September 2007: AGE launches Healthy Ageing brochure- good practice examples, recommendations and policy actions July 2008: Eurobarometer survey reveals Europeans' social expectations in 20 years' time July 2008: Commission publishes a renewed Social Agenda to empower people in 21st century Europe July 2008: EU Workshop on Market Barriers for Uptake of ICTs for Independent Living and Active Ageing at Home June 2008: "Ageing well": European Commission provides €600m for the development of new digital solutions for Europe's ageing society July 2007: Publications by the German Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth July 2007: New Study on Independent Living for Elderly June 2007: Library of the Independent Living Institute June 2007: Ageing Well in the Information Society June 2007: EU proposal for a decision on AAL June 2007: Germany launched its national web portal on German based AAL activities Related events 14 -15 September 2010, Hannover, Germany: eHealth Conference 2010 September 7-10, 2010, Valencia, SPAIN: IWAAL – International Workshop of Ambient Assisted Living 29 - 31 July 2010, Freiburg, Germany: IADIS International Conference e-Health 2010 22 – 24 June 2010, Seoul, Korea: ICOST 2010 – 8th international conference on smart homes and health telematics May 30 - June 2, 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada: e-Health Conference 2010 27 - 30 May 2010, Vancouver, Canada: 7TH World Conference, International Society for Gerontechnology 26 – 28 May, 2010, Berlin, Germany: 7th international conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health 06 -07 May, 2010, Vienna, Austria: eHealth 2010 20-22 April, 2010, Berlin, Germany: conhIT-Congress 2010 April 14-16, 2010, Luxembourg: 8th annual Med-e-Tel, international Telemedicine and eHealth conference 6- 9 April 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA: International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2010 11-12 March 2010, Malaga, Spain: AALIANCE European Conference 2 - 6 March 2010, Hannover, Germany: TeleHealth 2010 4- 5 November 2009, Florence, Italy: OASIS 1st International Conference 21 – 23 October 2009, Istanbul, Turkey: eChallenges e-2009 Conference 5-7 October 2009, 'S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands: 'Innovation for Demographic Change’ Conference 29 September- 1 October 2009, Vienna, Austria: AAL FORUM 09: Innovative ICT Solutions for Older Persons - A New Understanding 27 September – 2 October 2009, Toyama, Japan: IEEE RO-MAN 2009 - 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 29 September – 1 October 2009, Vienna, Austria: AAL Forum 2009 10 -11 September, 2009, Emden, Germany: Change – AAW: Ambient Assisted Working Accessible and assistive ICT in enterprise environments 5-9 July, 2009, Paris, France: World Congress on Gerontology and Geriatrics Paris 2009 1-3 July 2009, Tours, France: ICOST 2009- 7th International Conference on Smart homes and health Telematics 1 – 3 July, 2009, Paris, France: 7th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics (ICOST2009) 22-24 June 2009, Leiden/Noordwijk, The Netherlands: ICE 2009 – “Collaborative Innovation: Emerging Technologies, Environments and Communities” 9 – 13 June, 2009, Corfu, Greece: 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments – PETRA 2009 17 – 20 May, 2009, Aalborg, Denmark: First International Conference on Wireless VITAE 2009 13 – 15 May 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark: COST 298 Conference - The user and the future of information and communication technologies 2 – 3 April 2009, Maastricht, Netherlands: Maastricht 'Ageing Summit' 1 - 3 April 2009, London, UK: 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2009 5 - 7 March 2009, Barcelona, Spain: 1st International Conference on BRIDGING KNOWLEDGE IN LONG TERM CARE AND SUPPORT Crossing Boundaries between Ageing and Disability 27-28 January 2009, Berlin, Germany: Second German AAL-Congress, 2009 10-11 December 2008, Bilbao, Spain: 1st International Conference on Technologies for Accessibility and Support for Dependent People - ableTech’08 30 November- 2 December 2008, Vienna, Austria: e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference 28-29 November 2008, Stockholm, Sweden: International Conference “25 Years Independent Living in Sweden” 19-22 November 2008, Nuernberg, Germany: European Conference on Ambient Intelligence 22 – 24 October 2008, Stockholm, Sweden: eChallenges e-2008 Conference 15 - 17 October 2008, Berlin, Germany: ehome 2008 – Trade Show and Congress for Home Networking 1-4 October 2008, Innsbruck, Austria: ESF conference on functional genomics and disease 25- 26 September 2008, Milano, Italy: International Workshop of the AATE - Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe 18-19 September 2008, Norfolk, USA: pHealth: Personalized Health Technologies and Comparative Effectiveness 16- 18 September 2008, Sophia-Antipolis, France: European research towards trusted ambient intelligence workshop 15-17 September 2008, Warsaw, Poland: Fifth European Congress on Nutrition and Health in Elderly People 10 September 2008, Milan, Italy: WCC2008- Hosted Conference “eInclusion in the Information Society” 9 September 2008, Brussels, Belgium: First Workshop for Clustering between EU Research Projects Dealing with ICT for Active Ageing 4-7 September 2008, Montreal, Canada: IFA’s Global Conference on Ageing and Expo Ageing & Design 9-11 July 2008, Piraeus,Greece: 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (IIMSS-08) 4 – 7 June 2008, Pisa, Italy: The 6th International Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology – Smart technologies for an active longevity 16-18 April 2008, Luxembourg: Med-e-Tel (The International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT) 25 – 28 February 2008, Dresden, Germany: ARCS 2008 - Architecture of Computing Systems 21-23 February, 2008, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA: ICADI- International Conference on Ageing, disability and independence 13-15 February, 2008, Innsbruck, Austria: Technologies for Assessing Activities of Daily Living 30 January - 1 February 2008, Berlin, DE: First German Congress on "Ambient Assisted Living" 29 January 2008, Tampere, Finland: Ambient Technologies for Diagnosing and Monitoring Chronic Patients 22-24 November 2007, Budapest, Hungary: Regional Conference on Embedded and Ambient Systems - RCEAS 2007 16-17 November 2007, Tubingen, Germany: The Ageing Society- Helping the Elderly to enjoy Long comPlete lives 16-17 November 2007, Tubingen, DE: First Tubinger HELP-Symposium for old age science 11 November 2007, Karlsruhe, Germany: Information day “Ambient Assisted Living” 7-10 November 2007, Darmstadt, Germany: AmI-07, the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence 25-27 October 2007, Barcelona, Spain: eChallenges 2007 23-25 October 2007, Kendal, Lake District, UK: EuroSSC 2007 - 2nd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context 18-19 October 2007, University of A Coruna, Spain: 1st International Congress on Aging and Dependence 15 October 2007, Dresden, Germany: Workshop “AAL- Germany” (Zukunftsworkshop "AAL-Deutschland") 10 October 2007, Brussels, Belgium: Workshop: Better Ageing, Better Care 3-5 October 2007, Gnadenwald, Germany: Symposium Liveable Ageing- „Background and concepts of initiatives dealing in the area of Ambient Assisted Living 3-5 October 2007, San Sebastian, Spain: aaate - Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe 6-8 September 2007, St. Gallen, Switzerland: 3rd World Ageing & Generations Congress Links to related projects European projects Related projects in Germany Related projects in the UK Related projects in Spain Related projects in Slovenia Related project in the USA
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