FitForAgeThe aging society and the resulting demographical change pose one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. To solve problems that occur within this context, economy, politics and science need to work together.The aim of the Research Association „Fit4Age“ is to develop technical solutions that help elderly people in their home (Fit4Life), at work (Fit4Work), on the road (Fit4Mobility) as well as in communication with their environment for an affordable price. Developments in the field of „Fit4Life“focus on supporting elderly people in their daily activities at home. The aim of these age appropriate technical solutions is to afford a longer self-determined life in a familiar environment. Information technologies, that up to now have only been used to improve the medical care in clinics are integrated into a home environment to improve the living situation of elderly people. Acceptance and usefulness are of essential importance for every development, realized within this project. Within Fit4Life, the Chair of Pattern Recognition and the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy are working on the projects Interaktion im „ISA Haus“ and „InformARTik“ The focus of the project „Interaktion im ISA Haus“ (Interaction with the intelligent senior adapted home) lies on developing a modern speech recognition system that allows interaction between elderly people and the “ISA Home” on the basis of natural speech. It is necessary for an intuitive handling and thus high acceptance that the future dialog system is able to recognize and interpret free spoken words or sentences. Another important point is that such a system with all its complexity has to be integrated nearly invisible to avoid that the elderly person does not feel insecure. The expression „InformARTik“ states the connection between technology, computer science and art. The aim of this project is to utilize artwork as access to modern communication technology and additionally to use it as transportation vehicle for clinical relevant data. Within this project new and innovative methods are developed to direct the attention especially of elderly people to clinically relevant areas, to impart knowledge and to offer screening- and diagnostic instruments. The projects „Interaktion im ISA Haus“ and „InformARTik“ are supported by the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung (BFS) as part of the research association »FitForAge« | Project manager:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Hornegger
Project participants:
Dipl.-Inf. Werner Spiegl, Stefan Soutschek, M. Sc.
Duration: 1.1.2008 - 31.12.2010
Sponsored by:
Bayerische Forschungsstiftung
Mitwirkende Institutionen:
Psychiatrische und Psychotherapeutische Klinik
Chimaera GmbH
Geromed GmbH
GEV Grundstücks-Beteiligungsgesellschaft Herzogenaurach mbH
nuinno
softgate GmbH
Sympalog Voice Solutions GmbH
Contact:
Soutschek, Stefan
E-Mail: Stefan.soutschek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
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| Soutschek, Stefan ; Penne, Jochen ; Hornegger, Joachim ; Kornhuber, Johannes: 3-D Gesture-Based Scene Navigation in Medical Imaging Applications Using Time-Of-Flight Cameras. In: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision, Omnipress (Ed.) : 2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Anchorage, AK 23-28.6.2008). 2008, pp no pagination. - ISBN 978-1-4244-2340-8 | | Soutschek, Stefan ; Spiegl, Werner ; Steidl, Stefan ; Hornegger, Joachim ; Erzigkeit, Hellmut ; Kornhuber, Johannes: Technology Integration in the Daily Activities of the Elderly. In: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz 4/2008 (2008), No. 4, pp 49-54 | | Spiegl, Werner ; Stemmer, Georg ; Lasarcyk, Eva ; Kolhatkar, Varada ; Cassidy, Andrew ; Potard, Blaise ; Shum, Stephen ; Chol Song, Young ; Xu, Puyang ; Beyerlein, Peter ; Harnsberger, James ; Nöth, Elmar: Analyzing Features for Automatic Age Estimation on Cross-Sectional Data. In: Interspeech 2009 - 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Org.) : Proceedings of Interspeech 2009 (Interspeech 2009 Brighton, U.K. 06.-10.09.2009). 2009, pp 2923-2926. | | Soutschek, Stefan ; Maier, Andreas ; Hönig, Florian ; Spiegl, Werner ; Steidl, Stefan ; Hornegger, Joachim ; Erzigkeit, Hellmut ; Kornhuber, Johannes: Audio-Visual Feedback System for Reward-Based Training Sessions of Elderly People in a Home Environment. In: In: Russian Bavarian Conference on Bio-Medical Engineering (Ed.) : Proceedings of the 5th Russian-Bavarian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (Russian-Bavarian Conference on Biomedical Engineering München, Germany 01.-04.7.2009). 2009, pp n.a.. | | Giese, Katrin ; Hönig, Florian ; Erzigkeit, Andreas ; Soutschek, Stefan ; Hornegger, Joachim ; Kornhuber, Johannes: Development of a Computerized Diagnostic System for Elderly Drivers: A Feasibility Study. In: Feußner, Hubertus (Ed.) : Proceedings of the 5th Russian Bavarian Conference on Bio-Medical Engineering (RBC) (Russian Bavarian Conference on Bio-Medical Engineering (RBC) München 01.-04.07.2009). 2009, pp 157-160. - ISBN 978-3-00-029049-7 | | Mwangi, Samuel ; Spiegl, Werner ; Hönig, Florian ; Haderlein, Tino ; Maier, Andreas ; Nöth, Elmar: Effects of Vocal Aging on Fundamental Frequency and Formants. In: Acoustical Society of the Netherlands (NAG) ; German Acoustical Society (DEGA) (Ed.) : Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics NAG/DAGA 2009 (nag daga De Doelen Conference Centre in Rotterdam 23.-26.3.2009). 2009, pp 1761-1764. | | Ott, Stefan ; Spiegl, Werner ; Soutschek, Stefan ; Maier, Andreas ; Steidl, Stefan ; Nöth, Elmar: Home Assistance System for Elderly People. In: Russian Bavarian Conference on Bio-Medical Engineering Communication (Org.) : Proceedings of the 5th Russian-Bavarian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (5th Russian-Bavarian Conference on Biomedical Engineering München, Germany 01.-04.07.2009). 2009, pp -. | | Soutschek, Stefan ; Hönig, Florian ; Maier, Andreas ; Steidl, Stefan ; Stürmer, Michael ; Erzigkeit, Hellmut ; Hornegger, Joachim ; Kornhuber, Johannes: Immersive Painting. In: ArtsIT 2009 - International Conference on Arts & Technology (Ed.) : Proceedings of the ArtsIT 2009 (ArtsIT 2009 - International Conference on Arts & Technology Yi-Lan, Taiwan 24. - 25.09.2009). Berlin - Heidelberg : Springer, 2009, pp 33-39. - ISBN 978-3-642-11576-9 | | Janu, Thomas ; Spiegl, Werner ; Soutschek, Stefan ; Maier, Andreas ; Steidl, Stefan ; Nöth, Elmar: Universal Plug'n'PEAKS – Towards easy Deployment of Multi-modal Tele-medicine. In: Russian Bavarian Conference on Bio-Medical Engineering Communication (Org.) : Proceedings of the 5th Russian-Bavarian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (Russian Bavarian Conference on Bio-Medical Engineering Communication München, Germany 01.-04.07.2009). 2009, pp -. | | Soutschek, Stefan ; Spiegl, Werner ; Gropp, Martin ; Steidl, Stefan ; Nöth, Elmar ; Hornegger, Joachim ; Erzigkeit, Hellmut ; Kornhuber, Johannes: Validierter SKT als Multimodale Telemedizinische Applikation. In: BMBF ; VDE (Ed.) : Tagungsband zum 2. deutschen AAL-Kongress (2. Deutscher AAL (Ambient Assisted Living)-Kongress Berlin) (2. deutschen AAL-Kongress (2. Deutscher AAL (Ambient Assisted Living)-Kongress Berlin) Berlin 27.-28.1.2009). Berlin : VDE Verlag GmbH, 2009, pp n.a.. - ISBN 978-3-8007-3138-1 | | Penne, Jochen ; Soutschek, Stefan ; Schaller, Christian ; Hornegger, Joachim: Robust Real-Time 3D Time-of-Flight Based Gesture Navigation. In: Lucke, Ulrike ; Kindsmüller, Martin Christoph ; Fischer, Stefan ; Herczeg, Michael ; Seehusen, Silke (Ed.) : Workshop Proceedings der Tagungen Mensch&Computer 2008, DeLFI 2008 und Cognitive Design 2008 (Mensch&Computer 2008 Universität zu Lübeck, Hansestadt Lübeck, Germany Universität zu Lübeck, Hansestadt Lübeck, Germany). Berlin, Germany : Logos Verlag, 2008, pp 79-81. - ISBN 978-3-8325-2007-6 | | Penne, Jochen ; Soutschek, Stefan ; Fedorowicz, Lukas ; Hornegger, Joachim: Robust Real-Time 3D Time-of-Flight Based Gesture Navigation. In: Cohn, Jeffrey ; Huang, Thomas ; Pantic, Maja ; Sebe, Nico (Ed.) : Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2008 - 8th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition De Rode Hoed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands De Rode Hoed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Amsterdam, The Netherlands : IEEE, 2008, pp Tracking-ID 335. - ISBN 978-1-4244-2154-1 |
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