Short project overview

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Short project overview

• Dr. E. Bekiaris CERTH/HIT

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ASK-IT Consortium

• 42 partners form 13 European countries
• Industry
• Research Institutes
• Universities
• Telecommunication companies.
• ED Organisations
• Coordinator SIEMENS (Spain)
• Technical Manager CERTH/HIT

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The problem

• European population is getting older (lower
  fertility longer life expectancy)
• 20 of Europeans are unable to read? exclusion
  from the use of transport facilities
• ED are excluded from ICT technology services
  such services are not designed for all
• Inappropriate/complex UI
• Jargon-inhibiting, and too-often irrelevant
  youth-market focused content

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ED needs from assistive ICT services

• Easily used one stop shop service and
  information delivery sites, offering relevant and
  integrated content as needed i.e. age-concerned
  info on travel, accessible transport and
  accommodation, events and sites of interest, and
  "how to" advice on getting there.
• Data delivery alternative methods that will adapt
  the information context and the user interface to
  individual abilities, interest and preferences,
  whether derived from the user profile or implied
  by the users habits.
• Geo-referenced services, that allow the user to
  request info and services nearby.
• Integrated general-market services, that enable
  access to any information, with full choice, and
  ability to purchase the relevant service in a
  convenient and worry-free way.

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The aim of ASK-IT

• ASK-IT aims at developing an extended ambient
  intelligence space for the integration of
  functions and services for elderly and disabled
  people across various environments (car, bus,
  airplane, home, work, leisure and sport).
• ASK-IT focuses on geo-referenced and personalised
  transport and tourism services.
• Emphasis is on seamless service provision,
  independent on the media, user location (i.e.
  indoors, outdoors, in a city, during a trip,
  etc.), user type and residual abilities.

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ASK-IT characteristics

• Mediation of services and content.
• Seamless environment management, everywhere,
  anytime and by many mobile and/or fixed means.
• User preference (i.e. restaurant, hotel
  preference, etc.) and context-related driven
  process (i.e. tourist, commuter, businessman,
  etc.).
• Flexible geo-referenced services combining
  multimodal travel information .
• User confidence service environment.

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ASK-IT objectives (1)

• Develop an open and modular service platform,
  offering a transparent central point from which
  to coordinate incoming end user data (user
  request) and outgoing service provider data
  (provider response).
• Connect the new services to emerging ITS
  applications.
• Develop advanced key services, e.g. navigation,
  localisation, route guidance, e-commerce,
  e-payment, personal assistance, e-learning,
  e-working, social relations and community
  building services.

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ASK-IT objectives (2)

• Develop an iPDA, based on intelligent mobile
  phones and PDAs, able to configure itself
  according to the specific needs of the person.
• Develop the appropriate connection of this device
  to key assistive technologies (such as domotics,
  emergency management, driver support aids,
  computer accessibility, etc.) and web services.

Future mobile phones of ASK-IT manufacturers to
be used as potential intelligent platforms.
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ASK-IT services
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ASK-IT main User Group

• Lower limb impairment
• Wheelchair users
• Upper limb impairment
• Upper body impairment
• Physiological impairment
• Psychological impairment
• Cognitive impairment
• Vision impairment
• Hearing impairment
• Communication producing and receiving
  difficulties
• Sub-groups are identified based on functional,
  medical, physiological or psycho-physiological
  and cognitive limitations.
• Elderly users are also considered the starting
  age is 55 years.

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ASK-IT test sites (provisional)

• Selection includes North, Central, South and
  Eastern Europe.
• Genoa, Italy
• Helsinki, Finland
• Madrid, Spain
• Nuremberg, Germany
• Newcastle, UK
• Thessaloniki, Greece
• Budapest, Hungary

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• For more information please visit our web site
• www.ask-it.org