Project: Healthy Life support through Comprehensive Tracking of individual and Environmental Behaviors.

Acronym	HELICOPTER (Reference Number: aal-2012-5-150)
Duration	01/07/2013 - 01/10/2016
Project Topic	1. Challenges addressed and AAL-solutions proposed The main aim of HELICOPTER project is to support end-user and their caregivers with feedback, advice, and motivation by analysing the healthiness of the end users via monitoring of daily life behaviours in an unobtrusive and simple way by employing ambient intelligence. The main challenges are to focus on enduser needs, man machine interaction, and adaptive evolvable fusion-based analysis of daily life behaviours. 2. Target groups for the AAL-solution proposal The proposal is targeted at 65+ adults, not suffering from major chronic diseases or severe disabilities, yet possibly being affected by (or being at risk of) metabolic or circulatory malfunctioning, which include a large fraction of ageing population. Lifestyles play a major role in progression of such diseases: nutrition, medical therapies and physical exercise are among the keys for prevention and control. 3. Technology to be employed The project is based on existing technologies such as medical devices, environmental sensors, wearable devices as well as indirect information sources. Main technology efforts will aim at network integration and effective data management. 4. Business model The project aims at developing and tuning an integrated system of products and services, which could fit different business models, ranging from commercial distribution of medical and safety devices to companies delivering care services. 5. End user participation End-users will be involved since preliminary studies to identify most critical aspects of their life context with respect to the aimed system. Subsequently, a longer phase of prompting the users with design probes will qualify and expand on the initial research findings. Deeper engagement with the users will help to define the finer aspects of final prototypes. Pilots are planned, involving several tens of users, paving the way to large-scale exploitation beyond the project's end.
Network	AAL
Call	Call 5 – Daily Life Activities

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
	Brainport Development N.V.		Netherlands
	Centro di Collaborazione sulle Tecnologie Assistive, Università degli Studi di Parma		Italy
	Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design		Denmark
	Jönköping Internation Business School		Sweden
	Laboratorio delle Idee S.r.l.		Italy
	Me.Te.Da. S.r.l.		Italy
	Municipality of Skövde		Sweden
	SC Vision Systems SRL		Romania
	SPES s.c.p.a.		Italy
	University of Skövde		Sweden