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RESEARCH
Main achievements of the project
In 2008, the SID research group has participated
into two main projects : Companymages and
SIGAAL.
The Companym@ges 1 project which leader is
Alcatel-Lucent was approved by the « Images and
networks » technological cluster and funded by
the DGE (State funding). It is divided into 3 working
packages. The SID team is the leader of the AIPA
working package (“Aiding the elderly by using the
image”). It consists in the development of a
generic service-oriented platform. Hosted
services are identified by sociologists, health care
professionals, and the elderly. The main goals of
the project are:
• to alleviate the isolation of elderly people in
retirement homes by maintaining or creating
links between the different social networks
surrounding them (family, friends,
professional and social network)
• to propose technical solutions integrated into
everyday objects, in accordance with the
lifestyles of the elderly and their different
expectations and habits
• to deploy the platform and its services in a
retirement home in the Bellevue district of
Brest.
In 2008 technical developments focused on two
major lines :
• the adaptation of a web browser embedded
in the I-wedia Set-Top-Box connected to the
television, and
• the development of SIP agents for the Set-
Top-Box, needed for phone services.
Both lines have been carried out throughout the
year in strict collaboration with engineers from I-
wedia who provided us with several development
platforms for the set top box.
Services has been identified together with social
and professional agents, elderly people and
relational networks. All of them will participate in
the evaluation of services that takes place from
June 2008 to April 2009.
Several services were also developed (services for
photo albums and messages, phone services via
television, vocalisation of a local newspaper
articles, etc.). A significant work has also been
carried out on the ergonomics of the TV interface
and its interaction with the remote control. In this
sense, four versions of the interface were
assessed by the elderly.
In 2008, SID has also coordinated the
implementation of the consortium and the setting
up of the SIGAAL 2 project (« Services Inter
Générationnels pour l’Assistance aux Aînés dans
leur Logement »), a technical platform designed
for industry, supported by a number of different
participants (industry, researchers, developers,
associations etc.) with the aim of limiting the
feeling of solitude felt by the elderly. To reach this
aim, the platform will offer a number of services
available:
• aiding the elderly to continue being involved
and living at home in their own environment,
to keep up family ties, to open up social
contacts and to develop solidarity between
generations
• helping them to reclaim their place in their
local environment, with their neighbours and
local community – shopkeepers, etc
• making it possible to foresee frailty or
weakness and their incipient pathologies by
analysing « real life scenarios » to signal any
signs of break with everyday life. This
complements the applications currently
offered by those working in electronic
surveillance emergency treatment.
1) More information about the project may be found at https://www.companymages.eu/
2) The SIGAAL project will be presented to the Solution Communicantes Sécuriées (Région PACA) cluster. It includes: Icade et Iwedia (leaders), Ages Village, CHU Nice, CSTB de
Sophia Antipolis, Delta Dore, Dixid, Nexcom, Présence Verte, Telecom Bretagne, l’Atelier de Recherche Sociologique de l'Université de Bretagne Occidentale.
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