Table Of ContentAdvanced Technologies and Societal Change
Reiner Wichert
Beate Mand Editors
Ambient
Assisted
Living
9. AAL-Kongress, Frankfurt/M, Germany,
April 20–21, 2016
Advanced Technologies and Societal Change
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April 20–21, 2016
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Reiner Wichert Beate Mand
SageLiving GmbH Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik
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Germany Frankfurt
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Advanced Technologies and Societal Change
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Preface
The habitats of tomorrow will be connected through networked, autonomous, and
assistive systems. Houses, apartments, offices, transport, or public spaces are
converting into health places. Assistance technologies enable a smooth transition
from comfortable health support to medical or nursing care. To enable this, Active
Assisted Living (AAL) combines a whole range of innovative key technologies
from these domains. Nowadays, we can recognize the trend that precisely this
community is discussing domain spanning system concepts to integrate seamlessly
and spontaneously the various components and solutions into an overall system
approach.
While this potential has been recognized for some time, breakthroughs in terms
of widespread availability and deployment of solutions have yet to be achieved.
The EU and the AAL Association have funded activities in this area for some years,
and some of these are now at a stage in their development where direct hands-on
involvement of development companies is the best way to make sure that this work
produces results that are effective and applicable in real industrial settings.
To follow these goals, a conference series has been established as an annual
showcase event for the people involved in this community: the AAL-Kongress
(Congress for Active Assisted Living) with its purpose is to exhibit and demonstrate
ICT solutions, promote networking within the community, provoke debate on
various topics and highlight new or emerging developments in the area to inform
the AAL community and discuss the problems and challenges we have to face in
the common years.
The first AAL Kongress 2008 had the focus on applications of intelligent
assistive systems within the areas of “health & homecare”, “safety & privacy”,
“maintenance & housework” and “social environment”, At the second
AAL-Kongress, more than 520 participants attended. It focused on use cases to
support the manufacturing of products adjusted to the needs of the user. In 2010 the
third AAL-Kongress had been organized with close to 600 participants also with
the focus on use cases. In 2011, it advanced to the leading congress for AAL with
870 participants. In 2012, the focus was laid on technologies in a self-determined
life and the number of participants passed over 1000, still addressing economic
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challenges and trendsetting applications on innovative technology. In 2013, the
sixth AAL-Kongress was focussing on “quality of life in times of changing
demography and technology”. Within the thematic topic “Better Life with Assistive
Technologies” the congress addressed in 2014 the basic human needs in the dif-
ferent areas of housing, mobility, work, health and care. In 2015, the format of the
conference series has been changed by combining the AAL-Kongress with the fair
“Zukunft Lebensräume” to bring AAL closer to the people.
In 2016, the series continued in the combined format and with 750 participants
the congress was again a great success with its excellent platform to exchange
knowledge between all stakeholders, from developers, manufacturers and users,
service providers, end users and representatives from politics, industry and asso-
ciations. This time the congress focussed on technology for assistance in health,
independence and comfort. Close to 500 authors from six different countries had
submitted contributions where 108 papers had been accepted. After a solid review
process, 14 papers were accepted to be included in these scientific proceedings
of the conference. Three independent reviewers were matched by their expertise
area to the topic of each paper.
In closing, I would like to thank the 36 reviewers of the Reviewing Committee,
all the authors, the organizers of this event and the conference participants who
helped to make this congress a success.
Reiner Wichert
Chair of Scientific Program Committee
SageLiving GmbH
Pfungstadt, Germany
Organizing Committee
Chair Scientific Program Committee
Reiner Wichert, SageLiving GmbH
Scientific Program Committee/Review Committee 9.
AAL Kongress “Zukunft Lebensräume Kongress 2016”
Jan Alexandersson, DFKI Saarbrücken
Rashid Asarnusch, Zentrum für Telemedizin Bad Kissingen
Serge Autexier, DFKI Bremen
Daniel Bieber, Institut für Sozialforschung und Sozialwirtschaft
Michael Brach, Universität Münster
Martin Braecklein, Linde Healthcare
Andreas Braun, Fraunhofer IGD
Alexandra Brylok, VSWG
Wolfgang Deiters, Fraunhofer ISST
Marco Eichelberg, Offis
Uwe Fachinger, Universität Vechta
Melina Frenken, Jade Hochschule
Petra Friedrich, HS Kempten
Birgit Graf, Fraunhofer IPA
Ingrid Hastedt, Wohlfahrtswerk Baden-Württemberg
Andreas Hein, Universität Oldenburg
Svenja Helten, Universität Vechta
Oliver Koch, Hochschule Ruhr West
Benno Kotterba, iAQ Institut für Assistenzsysteme und Qualifizierung e.V.
Petra Knaup-Gregori, Universität Heidelberg
Harald Künemund, Universität Vechta
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Janina Laurila-Dürsch, DKE
Sybille Meyer, SIBIS Institut
Heidrun Mollenkopf, BAGSO
Stephanie Nobis, Universität Vechta
Christina Rode-Schubert, TCI
Lothar Schoepe, Smart Living GmbH
Gudrun Stockmanns, Hochschule Ruhr West
Uwe Tronnier, FH Kaiserslautern
Frank Wallhoff, Jade Hochschule Oldenburg
Claus Wedemeier, GdW
Christine Weiß, VDI/VDE-IT
Volker Wittpahl, Wittpahl Ingenieurs- und Innovationsbüro
Wolfgang Zagler, Technische Universität Wien
Anton Zahneisen, SOPHIA living network GmbH
Contents
Part I Technical Assistance for Urban Areas
Integration of Stationary and Wearable Support Services
for an Actively Assisted Living of Elderly People: Capabilities,
Achievements, Limitations, Prospects—A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rainer Lutze and Klemens Waldhör
QuoVadis—Definition of Requirements and Conception
for Interconnected Living in a Quarter for Dementia Patients . . . . . . . . 27
Alexander Gerka, Nadine Abmeier, Marie-Luise Schwarz,
Stefanie Brinkmann-Gerdes, Marco Eichelberg and Andreas Hein
Part II Technology for Smart Environments
Invisible Human Sensing in Smart Living Environments
Using Capacitive Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Andreas Braun, Silvia Rus and Martin Majewski
LivingCare—An Autonomously Learning, Human Centered
Home Automation System: Collection and Preliminary Analysis
of a Large Dataset of Real Living Situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Ralf Eckert, Sebastian Müller, Sebastian Glende, Alexander Gerka,
Andreas Hein and Ralph Welge
New Approaches for Localization and Activity Sensing
in Smart Environments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Florian Kirchbuchner, Biying Fu, Andreas Braun
and Julian von Wilmsdorff
Technology Supported Geriatric Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Sandra Hellmers, Sebastian Fudickar, Clemens Büse, Lena Dasenbrock,
Andrea Heinks, Jürgen M. Bauer and Andreas Hein
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