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- NEWS ARTICLE
- Information on FP7 ICT Call 7, ICT for Ageing and Wellbeing (objective 5.4) and ICT for smart and personalised inclusion (objective 5.5)
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(18 October 2010) If you were not able to attend the info day organised on 15 October, you now can download the presentations done during the day.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Infoday on Challenge 5 (Call 7) on 26 October
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(20 October 2010) The info day is organised by the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI).
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Launch of eAccess+, the eAccessibility Network
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(20 October 2010) The ICT Policy Support Programme funded Thematic Network eAccess+ will create a platform for collecting and providing guidance on how to use in practice the body of knowledge on eAccessibility. eAccess+ is a best-practice network too that will facilitate co-operation between the community of practitioners (found in research institutions and consultancies) and all the other stakeholders (policy makers, administrators in the public sector, technical staff in the private sector…). The purpose is to accelerate the take-up of e-accessibility specifications and technical solutions, and to contribute to a common approach at European level. The network will support the development of common guidelines and standards, and, where needed, will provide rationale for harmonised political and legal measures. Its main focus is web accessibility but it will address also digital TV and self-service terminals.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- INCA (Innovative and Creative Application) 2010 Awards for an inclusive society
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(22 October 2010) After a successful first edition in 2009, the INCA awards (Innovative & Creative Applications) are back with a bigger challenge. This competition for developers encourages them to build applications that are both cool and useful to society. The rules are simple: applications have to be developed in 6 weeks time and they have to fit into this edition's theme: inclusive society.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- The Assistive Technology Journal is looking for reviewers
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(22 October 2010) RESNA (the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America) is looking for volunteers to write review articles for its peer-reviewed journal.
Contact: Rory A. Cooper, editor in chief
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- Workshop on ICT & Ageing: Announcing the European Initiative for an AAL Platform
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16 November 2010 Passau, Germany
When the topic "AAL" comes up, everybody thinks first of fascinating technology that is unobtrusively integrated in "smart home environments" and supports people in their daily lives. This thinking is surely driven by the ongoing development of impressive services that was and is still provided by the AAL research community as well as the growing number of companies that bring this technology to market. In many projects - like MonAMI - that deal with the integration of such mainstreaming services and sensor systems into a common architecture, it quickly became clear that a very important aspect was not sufficiently considered: The need of a common platform for AAL systems. In the series of lectures "Platforms for AAL applications", this issue will be addressed. Many highly qualified experts dealing with the standardization of AAL platforms for many years, will present their experiences and answer questions to topics like "Why platforms are important to AAL", "What features should be in an AAL platform" and "Why mainstream and open source solutions are important in AAL".
See also: MonAmi project
New in the Library
- REPORTS AND STUDIES
- Final report of the Hearcom research project
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21 September 2010
The report provides a public overview on the outcomes of the FP6 project HearCom (Hearing in the Communication Society) that was conducted from 1 September 2004 until 28 February 2009. One of the main achievements of the project has been the provision of advanced hearing screening tests by telephone and Internet. It was aimed at the harmonization of hearing diagnostic tests within Europe. For this, the concept of the Auditory Profile has been developed with several tests for various languages. The project also developed the HearCompanion tool, an online tool for supporting new hearing aid users in their hearing rehabilitation process.
See also: You can try yourself the HearCompanion
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