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Keywords: [Supporting Older People]
Name: MonAMI - mainstreaming on AMbient Intelligence
Start Date: 1st Sep 06
End Date: 1st Sep 10
Total Project Fund: 8,699,478Euros
Background: Previous European projects have shown that introducing innovative technology into the living space can help older people and people with disabilities to carry out daily living tasks, thus increasing their quality of life and reducing the need for institutional and other care. Unfortunately, the results of these projects have often stayed in the laboratory or only been implemented on a small, local scale. MonAMI will build on these experiences and aim for large-scale mainstream deployment.
Description: The MonAMI project will demonstrate that accessible, useful services for older persons and persons with disabilities living at home can be delivered in mainstream systems and platforms. This will be done in close cooperation with users and by involving key mainstream suppliers throughout the whole process. Ambient intelligence stands for an environment where people are surrounded by intelligent intuitive interfaces that are embedded in all kinds of objects and an environment that is capable of recognising and responding to the presence of different individuals in a seamless, unobtrusive and often invisible way.
Objective: The overall objective of MonAMI is to mainstream accessibility in consumer goods and services, including public services, through applied research and development, using advanced technologies to ensure equal access, independent living and participation for all.Clusters of services and applications will be selected and developed with a "Design for All" approach working together with potential users. The platforms to deliver the services will be derived from standard technology. They will integrate elements such as reliable self-organizing networks, wearable devices, user interaction technology, monitoring capability and service infrastructures that ensure quality of service, reliability and privacy. The services will be delivered on mainstream devices and services such as digital TV, third-generation mobile telephones and broadband Internet. To facilitate use and user interaction, MonAMI will develop an innovative interface, involving an embodied conversational agent The selected services will first be tested in six Feasibility and Usability centers with user tests in lab-like conditions. Once the services and applications have been found to be feasible, usable and appropriate to user needs, large-scale validation will be carried out in Validation centres in four countries. Hundreds of users will try out the services in their homes and the impact and consequences will be analysed. The economic viability and long term sustainability of the services will be addressed in order to facilitate real mainstream implementation.
General Info: Partners in the MonAMI-project are the Swedish Institute of Assistive Technology (project co-ordinator);Electricité de France (France);Europ Assistance France(France);France Telecom (France); HMC International (Belgium);Siemens IT Solutions and Services (Germany);Telefónica I+D (Spain);The Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden);The Technical University of Košice (Slovakia);The University of Passau (Germany);The University of Zaragoza (Spain);Trialog (France).
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Organisations Involved In This Project


Participants:

Organisation Name Type Tel Town Contact
Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) - London School of Economics
 Academic
 020 7405 7686
 London
 Ms Jacqueline Damant
OpenHub Limited
 Commercial
 01223 424005
 Cambridge
 Mr Kim Spence-Jones

Funding for this project includes a contribution from:

Organisation Name Type Tel Town
European Commission - FP6
 Grant Making Body