TY - GEN
T1 - The assistant project
T2 - 1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, ICT4AgeingWell 2015
AU - Barham, Philip
AU - Carmien, Stefan
AU - Garzo, Ainara
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This is a Position Paper, in the form of a short report on progress of the three-year ASSISTANT project, which is funded jointly by the European Commission's Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme (AAL JP) and the national funding agencies of Austria, Finland, France, Spain and the UK. ASSISTANT's objective is to create a system that older people can use, on a smartphone, to help them to travel independently by public transport, in comfort and with confidence. The target group for the commercial product that will be developed by the project is more mobile older people. However, because the app will be highly personalised, and provide the user with the facility of audible and haptic, as well as visual, feedback, it should also be appropriate for use by people who are partially sighted, people who are hard of hearing, and people who have difficulty with oral communication. This paper describes progress made during the first two and a half years of the project's life, and outlines some of the ways in which the ASSISTANT app will be tailored to meet the needs of a variety of users, in a variety of public transport contexts.
AB - This is a Position Paper, in the form of a short report on progress of the three-year ASSISTANT project, which is funded jointly by the European Commission's Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme (AAL JP) and the national funding agencies of Austria, Finland, France, Spain and the UK. ASSISTANT's objective is to create a system that older people can use, on a smartphone, to help them to travel independently by public transport, in comfort and with confidence. The target group for the commercial product that will be developed by the project is more mobile older people. However, because the app will be highly personalised, and provide the user with the facility of audible and haptic, as well as visual, feedback, it should also be appropriate for use by people who are partially sighted, people who are hard of hearing, and people who have difficulty with oral communication. This paper describes progress made during the first two and a half years of the project's life, and outlines some of the ways in which the ASSISTANT app will be tailored to meet the needs of a variety of users, in a variety of public transport contexts.
KW - Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme (AAL JP)
KW - Older people
KW - Personal mobility
KW - Personal navigation system
KW - Public transport
KW - Smartphone technology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84939546947&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5220/0005434902530258
DO - 10.5220/0005434902530258
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84939546947
T3 - ICT4AgeingWell 2015 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health
SP - 253
EP - 258
BT - ICT4AgeingWell 2015 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health
A2 - Holzinger, Andreas
A2 - Rocker, Carsten
A2 - Fred, Ana
A2 - Helfert, Markus
A2 - O'Donoghue, John
A2 - Ziefle, Martina
PB - SciTePress
Y2 - 20 May 2015 through 22 May 2015
ER -
