CARE Meeting
On the 17th and 18th of December the third project meeting of all members of the CARE project took place at the HCM chair of Augsburg University. There the results of the first study and the following steps were discussed.
CARE in the Augsburger Allgemeine
On December the 16th the “Augsburger Allgemeine”, a local newspaper, has published an article about the CARE project. Link to the article of the Augsburger Allgemeine (in German)
Project of the month
The CARE project has been selected as project of the month December by the “Projektträger im DLR” (PT-DLR). Link to the article as PDF (in German)
CARE meeting in Athens
On July the 14th and 15th the second project meeting of all partners took place at ICCS-NTUA in Athens.
CARE article in the CAREkonkret
An article about the CARE system was published in the German weekly newspaper “CAREkonkret” in the issue No. 50/14 on page 12. Link to the website of “CAREkonkret”: Link
Scheduled Meeting in Athens, Greece
A meeting in Athens, Greece, will take place from July 14th to 16th 2014, in which all partners of the CARE project will participate. Work results of the last months will be presented and the further procedure will be discussed.
BMBF Conference
On May 26th and 27th 2014 the conference “Dienstleistung in der digitalen Gesellschaft” (German for “Services in the digital society”) from the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) took place in Berlin, Germany, on which the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg (Marcus Mayr) and the University of
Architecture
In close collaboration of the University of Augsburg and the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, an architecture for the CARE system (see picture) has been developed, which is explained below: At first sensor data (of the environment and the user) is recorded and processed (into usable data). This data will be saved and is, from
Basic Idea of CARE
CARE is an acronym for “A sentient Context-Aware Recommendation system for the Elderly”. The basic idea is to enhance the everyday life of elderly people through selected, user specific recommendations. These range from easy suggestions like opening the window after it was closed too long, over short exercices to get the circulatory system going to recommendations
CARE Kick-off meeting
On February 12th and 13th 2014 the CARE kickoff meeting has taken place, in which the University of Augsburg, the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg and the ICCS-NTUA Athen participated. Items of the agenda were to get to know each other, an analysis of previous developements (which may be of use for the project CARE),