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Ageing population: facts • In absolute terms, the number of older persons has tripled over the last 50 years and will be more than triple again over the next 50-year period to reach nearly 2 billion in 2050. • By 2020 the 65+ population will represent the 25% of the overall population in Europe. • Due to increased longevity and reduced birth-rate: • The annual growth of the older population (1.9%) is significantly higher than that of the total population (1.02%) • In the near future, the difference between those two rates is expected to become even larger, as the baby boom generation starts ageing in many parts of the world, including Europe. • The ageing of the population is changing also the workforce scenario in Europe: • currently the ratio between working people and retired ones is equal to 4:1; drastic reduction of this ratio up to 2:1 in 2050. • Healthcare and Pension systems are struggling to cope with additional demand also in consideration that age and disability are strongly correlated: around a fifth of people over 50 experience severe vision, hearing and dexterity problems. <to be added by each partner>

The elderly society barriers • Barriers to independence, affecting the lives of elderly people include: • Major deficiencies in assistance to the elderly in the transportation modes, hampering their social and working activities. • Due to the lack of appropriate retraining, lifelong learning activities, and tele-working infrastructure, senior workers are often confronted with unemployment. • Social isolation is a common problem for senior people. The consequences of ageing population present enormous challenges and opportunities for ICT. • A typical example is the Internet that has become an enabler of social inclusion, as it allows contact to the outside world. • Senior people can walk out of loneliness, by sending e-mails to family members and friends all over the world, chatting in forums to exchange feelings and ideas, etc. <to be added by each partner>

OASIS vision • OASIS aims at an open and innovative reference architecture, based upon ontologies and semantic services, that will allow plug and play and cost-effective interconnection of existing and new services in all domains required for the independent and autonomous living of the elderly and their Quality of Life enhancement. Both the open reference architecture and the related tools will be made available as open source. <to be added by each partner>

OASIS data summary • EC co-funded project (ICT-FP7) • Coordinator: Philips FIMI (Italy) • Start/end date: 1 January 2008 - 31 December 2012 • Consortium: 33 Partners from 12 countries <to be added by each partner>

Target user group • Elderly people who experience mild cognitive and physical impairments due to ageing. • These people have the competence, in most cases, to lead independent and active lives, but, are at risk of exclusion due to the slight cognitive and physical deteriorations that they are experiencing, as well as the complexity and lack of utility, accessibility and usability of ICT. • The OASIS main end-user group, can be broken down into 3 sub-groups : • ‘Young’ Elderly: ages 55-65, i.e. people who are healthy with active lives, but who have just started to experience slight deteriorations in their quality of life due to ageing. • Elderly: ages 65-75, i.e. people who are healthy, but are more likely to experience mild cognitive and physical problems due to ageing. • ‘Old Elderly’: ages 75+, i.e. people who are very likely to experience cognitive and physical deteriorations due to ageing. <to be added by each partner>

OASIS target domains • Independent Living Applications, including socialisation • nutritional advisor, activity coach, brain and skills trainers, social communities platform, health monitoring and environmental control • Mobility Applications, • elderly-friendly transport information services, elderly-friendly route guidance, personal mobility services • Smart Workplaces Applications • biometric authentication interface and multimodal dialogue mitigation and other smart workplace applications <to be added by each partner>

OASIS modules at a glance • A new Architectural Framework, called “COF-Common Ontological Framework” or “OASIS hyper-ontology”. The hyper-ontology is open, modular, holistic, easy-to-use and standards-abiding and allows the interoperability, seamless connectivity and sharing of content between not only single services but also competing ontologies of the same or different application domains. • An Open Reference Architecture(also called ‘OASIS Platform’), composed by the COF and its support tools, both available as open source, that allow the automatic or semi-automatic connection of existing and emerging ontologies and services to the OASIS Architectural Framework. • The OASIS System, composed of the new Open Reference Architecture, enriched by an AmI Framework (a multi-Agents platform) and the Interaction Platform (allowing automatic UI self-creation for new connected services and self adaptation to the device used, the context of use and the user needs and preferences). • A wide range of connected applications (over 12 different service types), all integrated within the OASIS System, and interoperating in integrated scenarios and Use Cases, covering the needs of the elderly and their caregivers. • A Pilots test-bed, consisting of 4 sites Europe-wide (in North, Central, South and East- Europe) and all potential test environments per site: Living Labs, Sheltered Homes, Independent Living (private) homes. <to be added by each partner>

OASIS overall concept and parts <to be added by each partner>

SP1: Open Reference Architecture, User Interface, Platform and Tools • Building of the open-ended reference architecture (COF: Common Ontological Framework) for organising, maintaining and applying heterogeneous ontologies. This architecture framework is aimed to achieve: • Interoperability between different web services from the same or different application domains. • Sharing of contextual information between different objects and services. • Seamless connectivity between hardware, from hardware to service and from service to service. <to be added by each partner>

SP2: Independent Living Applications • This SP promotes activities to enhance the elderly autonomy, comfort, safety, security and health while at home. The aim is facilitated by the following modules: • Nutritional advisor: personalization and adaptation of the recommendation and advices to the elder for improving his/her nutrition • Activity coach: monitors, supports and coaches several physical activities, aiming to reduce the age-related declines in the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems <to be added by each partner>

SP2 (cont.) • Brain and skills trainer: through different exercises and simulated scenarios, the mental health of persons will be promoted. A set of personalized exercises will maintain his/her memory and mental activities level. • Social relation and recreation platform: building of a social community platform, at different levels, in order to fight the social isolation of elderly people and to facilitate new collaborative experiences. • Health monitoring: management of the elderly people’s health and assurance of their optimal health status while realising the rest of their daily lives activities. • Environmental control: Domotics applications allowing the elderly to be confident in his/her house and contribute to the comfort of the person. <to be added by each partner>

SP3: Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications This SP promotes activities to “push” the elderly user out of his/her home, guaranteeing safety, security and comfort. The aim is facilitated by the following modules: • New functionalities, for more independency and safety in their trips, by easing their driving, avoiding the exposure to risks and accelerating the emergency rescue procedures. • New route guidance prototype, incorporating elderly cognitive needs and behavioural patterns. <to be added by each partner>

SP3 (cont.) • Appropriate mobility services, including journey planning and support while driving (assistance navigation, extended emergency call and tele-diagnostics, driver monitoring and comfort), accessible tourism, leisure and social activities. • The need of older people to remain active in the business domain can be supported while at home, or anywhere, as mobile users. <to be added by each partner>

SP4: Integration, Pilot sites and devices • All the developed applications will be tested in 4 sites Europewide: • UK • Germany • Italy • Greece, Romania & Bulgaria (combined site) • Participation of hundreds of users, their caregivers and other stakeholders, in order to evaluate the overall success and to get the required data to optimise them. <to be added by each partner>

SP5: Horizontal activities • Management, dissemination, marketing and exploitation of the project concept and results, ethical and gender issues protection, training (to familiarize the partners with the technology) and standardisation (OASIS platform and applications will be submitted for standardisation by the established OASIS world-wide Industrial Forum). <to be added by each partner>

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