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Ageing well in the community: staying socially active and creative through
ICT solutions that are geared toward social networking as well as good access
to public and commercial services, so improving the quality of life and
reducing social isolation, which is one of the main problems of elder people in
rural areas with a low population as well as in urban areas with little family
support.
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Ageing well at work or “active ageing at work”: remaining active and
productive for a longer time, with an improved quality of work and a better
work-life balance via easy-to-access ICT, innovative practices for adaptable
workplaces, ICT skills and competences and ICT-enhanced learning (e.g. e-
skills and e-learning).
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Based on the observation that a person (with in-body or on-body sensors) traverses
many physical locations (room, home, car, workplace, shops, outdoors), each one with
a collection of environmental sensors, either physically placed in the physical space or
built into the furniture or appliances, and virtual spaces (e-shopping, gaming, chatting,
searching or planning activity), depending on the current activity or focus, we would
like to focus on the area “Ageing well at home”. The current definition is strongly
related to location. In our context it might be more practical to replace this area by
another one “Ageing well for the person” and with a sub-division either “@home” or
“on-the-move”.
This would give us the following three areas: AAL4persons (consisting of
AAL@home and AALon-the-move), AAL@community and AAL@work.
To develop applications in these domains, the following enabling technologies are
defined:
Sensing: anything and anywhere, in-body or on-body, in-appliance or on-
appliance or in the environment (home, outdoor, vehicles, public spaces, etc.).
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Reasoning: collecting, aggregating, processing and analysing data,
transforming them into knowledge in different and often across, connected
spaces (e.g. body, home, vehicle, public spaces). Reasoning engines could be
implemented on a dedicated device together with one or more sensors, on an
on-body device for mobile situations, on a home device, or on a server
connected to a network.
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Acting: automatic control through actuators and feedback (e.g. information,
suggestions or guidance), which can be local or remote (e.g. to a call centre),
instantaneous (e.g. in the case of alarms) or delayed (e.g. in the case of trend
information and lifestyle recommendations), to relevant participants using
personalized multi-modal interfaces, with respect to role and active task,
possibly across multiple spaces.
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Communication: sensors and actuators are connected to one or more reasoning
systems which in turn might be connected to other reasoning systems with
optional additional actuators. These could include dynamic communication
systems, e.g. a person moving from home to a vehicle and to some public
space.
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Interaction: intelligent interaction of people with systems and services, which
is a very important aspect of the applications and will have specific
requirements to adapt to the people's abilities.
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