The development of dementia in later life is a common ailment for people reaching an older age. Thus, AAL  solutions need to take into account the necessary steps for making AAL technology suitable to this significant part of the target group. This workshop aims at the development of a set of guidelines for the development of such solutions. It draws on existing developments being done in this field, ranging from end-user research to interaction development and evaluations.

The workshop poses these questions to its participants and collects current research
results on the following topics:

- User research with dementia patients (Focus groups and interviews to inquire about the needs of these patients)
- Research from care personnel (health care staff or caring relatives giving insight into their requirements for providing better care)
- Interaction development for dementia patients (Development of user interfaces, input metaphors, design principles, etc.)
- Presentations of integrated systems aimed at supporting dementia patients

- Presentations of software/hardware solutions aimed at helping dementia patients in everyday life (medication dispensers, reminder systems, monitoring systems, alarm and control units, relevant sensory equipment, etc.)

After the presentation of the participants’ contributions, discussions on the integration of this knowledge into a  common understanding of how to best develop AAL systems for dementia patient care will be held and important  results recorded.

The aim of the workshop is the creation of a set of guidelines and best practices for the proper development of  AAL solutions for dementia patients and elderly people with special needs in general.

The workshop will take place on November 16th 2011 from 13:30 -17:00 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands as part of  the AmI 2011 conference.

The workshop will take place in room CAMBRIDGE.

Agenda:

Proposed Paper Submission Format

Workshop papers are 4 pages in Springer LNCS format. More information including templates can be found here.

Please send papers to:

ws5ami2011 [at] igd [dot] fraunhofer [dot] de

Organizers

Felix Kamieth

Felix Kamieth has a background in Electrical Engineering and is currently working
at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD in Darmstadt,
Germany. He has been involved in several projects regarding user interface
development and user interaction in the AAL domain. One of his current projects is
the European AAL Joint Program project CCE (Connected Care for Elderly People
with Dementia), aiming at the development of an AAL system to support dementia
patients in their everyday lives. Here he serves as the Fraunhofer contact and national
contact point for Germany.

Kathrin Kim

Kathrin Kim has a background in psychology and design and is currently working
at User Interface Design in Munich, Germany. She was involved in several projects
regarding user interface design and is currently involved in the Interface design team
of the CCE project.

Hester Bruikman

Hester Bruikman has a background in psychology and is currently working at
Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She has a background in Human
Computer Interfaces and was involved in several research project in this field. She is
currently involved in the interface design team of the CCE project and is the national
contact point for the Netherlands.

Program Committee Members

Reiner Wichert, Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, Darmstadt, Germany
Saied Tazari, Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, Darmstadt, Germany
Michael Hellenschmidt, SAP Research, Darmstadt, Germany
Johannes Schäfer, User Interface Design, Ludwigsburg, Germany