Cognitive training at the core of an OASIS of

services

Karel Van Isacker

(MCA)

Workshop on Cognitive Support Technology For Older People,

Goldsmiths, University of London, 15th December 2010

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OASIS

at a glance

• OASIS = Open architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardization - www.oasis-project.eu; funded under 7th Framework Programme;

• Started: 1 January 2008 – End: 31 December 2011

• Collaborative Project that introduces an innovative, ontology-driven, Open Reference Architecture and System, through which 12 different types of services are connected with the OASIS System for the benefit of the elderly, covering user needs and wants in terms of:- Independent Living Applications;

- Autonomous Mobility;

- Smart Workplaces Applications.

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• nutritional advisor

• activity coach

• brain and skills trainers

• social communities platform

• health monitoring and environmental control

Independent Living

Applications

• elderly-friendly transport information services

• elderly-friendly route guidance

• personal mobility services

• mobile devices

• biometric authentication interface

• multimodal dialogue mitigation

• other smart workplace applications

Autonomous Mobility and

Smart Workplaces Applications

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Main target group of OASIS Applications

• OASIS targets older people who experience mild cognitive and

physical impairments due to ageing, while supporting them in

having an independent life as long as possible. Equally

however, OASIS aims at supporting them in having an active

life.– “Young” elderly (55-65) i.e. people who are healthy and in most cases, can

still lead busy and active lives, but who have just started to experience slight deteriorations due to aging;

– Elderly (65-75) i.e. people who are healthy, but are more likely to experience mild cognitive and physical problems due to aging;

– “Old” elderly (75+), i.e. people who are likely to experience cognitive and physical deterioration due to aging.

• Different activity degrees– Require also different set of services

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Other target groups of OASIS Applications

Industry

Re-searchers

Family members and/or (in)formal caregivers

Health care and emergency support service providers

Social security service providers

Different degrees of

data input and output

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Piloting process

• Different pilot sites in

– UK

– Germany

– Italy

– Romania

– Bulgaria

– Greece

• Different cultural / social /

economic backgrounds

– Degree of openness to new

technology differs

– Different national ethical frameworks

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Added value• Identified and involved end-users and

stakeholder groups:– Communities established in:

• Belgium (1 user forum)

• Bulgaria (3 user forums)

• China (1 user forum)

• Germany (1 user forum)

• Greece (1 user forum)

• Italy (4 user forums)

• Romania (1 user forum)

• United Kingdom (2 user forums)

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User forums consist of:

• Project presentation

• Introducing all

application fields

• Discussion

• Evaluation (scoring)

Almost 300 participants in

total

• User driven project

– Involve local elderly users, relatives and carers in

the development work, in applications

specification, interactive development and testing

and final system evaluation

• Local project communities established

• User forums established

• Preferences collected and analysed

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Preferences end-users• Fall and other accidents detection

– Directly touches a main concern for older people, namely falling

– Very much liked by the User Forum participants

• Specific cognitive training exercises and activities

– Closely connected to the memory losses with which most

older people are confronted, and which all want to “fight

against”.

– Remote health monitoring

• Provides older people with a safety beacon

– Directly linked to it is also the health profile definition and

personalization which is to ensure a personalised approach

– Alerting and assisting applications provide support in cases of

emergencies.

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Preferences end-users• Rehabilitation support system

– Ensures recovery after a possible injury, possibly combined

with the activity management service

– Latter also supports any rehabilitation that is needed, or in

other cases supports daily training on a personalised level.

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Starting OASIS

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Brain training

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Brain training: Shape or colour, Find the word

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Brain training: Find the pairs

Nutritional advisor

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Nutritional advisor

Other OASIS services: Taxi service,

environmental control

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• Privacy protection and confidentiality

• Informed consent

• Incidental Findings

• Transparency of the collected data management

by the final system and during its Pilots

• IT-Security and identity management

• Risk assessment (Insurance)

• Delegation of control

• Incentives (Financial inducements, etc.)

Core ethical issues

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• Use of internet as channel to transmit data

– (medical, private) Data connected to profile

– User concern what happens with all that data

• Security and privacy issues addressed by OASIS

• User in control throughout all services– Decides what is shared when and with who

• Ethical advisory board

– Top level ethical guidance, including ethical manual

– Provides framework for:

• Local national ethical committees– Involves local pilot site responsibles

• Use of consent forms and anonymisation

Ethical concerns

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• All required user profile data will be stored at his/her

mobile device and be securely protected

• Feedback from services will be strictly given to the user

him/herself and not to the relatives or other persons (in a

discrete mode).

• The user’s location and route will be temporarily stored.

• The user will have the capacity to view, change or delete,

as he/she wishes, all stored data by the system.

• The user will be able him/herself to provide selected data

access to third parties.

• All OASIS applications are using unobtrusive sensors, i.e.

embedded on a seat or wearable.

Privacy issues

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Project partners1. PHILIPS FIMI s.r.l.

2. Centre for Research & Technology Hellas / Hellenic Institute of Transport / Centre for Research & Technology Hellas / Informatics & TelematicsInstitute

3. Asociación Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas

4. Planung Transport Verkehr AG

5. Mizar Automazione S.p.A.

6. The European Older People’s Platform

7. SIEMENS S.A.

8. VODAFONE-OMNITEL ITALIA

10. IBM CESKA REPUBLICA, SPOL. s r. o.

11. PROMOTION OF OPERATIONAL LINKS WITH INTEGRATED SERVICES

12. Centro Ricerche Fiat Società Consortile per Azioni

13. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.

14. Universität Bremen

15. University of Newcastle upon Tyne

16. SingularLogic S.A.

17. DOMOLOGIC Home Automation GmbH

18. ANCO S.A. Agencies, Commerce & Industry

19. Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas

20. Marie Curie Association

22. EWORX S.A.

23. University of Pisa

24. Intelligent Traffic & Transport Applications SA

25. ATAF SpA

26. BluePoint

27. Centro Tecnológico de Automoción de Galicia

28. NETSMART S.A.

29. Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey

30. Tsinghua University / Institute of Human Factors & Ergonomics, Tsinghua University

31. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / Life Supportin Technologies

32. Innovalia Association

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VIDEO

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Karel Van Isacker

Project manager

“Marie Curie” Association

Plovdiv 4023,

Trakiya, 31 Osvobozhdenie Blvd, Karina

House fl.1, apt. 4, BULGARIA

www.marie-curie-bg.org

projects@marie-curie-bg.org

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