Project: SOcial Networks for Older adults to Promote an Active life
| Acronym | SONOPA (Reference Number: aal-2012-5-187) |
| Duration | 01/05/2013 - 01/05/2016 |
| Project Topic | SOcial Networks for Older adults to Promote an Active Life (SONOPA) aims to employ a set of available ICT technologies to develop an end-to-end solution for stimulating and supporting activities at home. SONOPA aims to achieve its objective through a data collection and fusion structure which merges real measurements of the user’s activities in order to encourage activities with their peers. Reminders and recommendations come through personalized easyto-use wall displays placed at the user home. SONOPA will employ data analysis techniques to derive a model for the wellness of the user along four dimensions: social, eating, leisure habits and mobility. This model will enable the system to track variations in the daily activities over time in order to detect the right time to provide a recommendation. This allows for timely access to quantitative data from the user and allows the activation of individual and social recommendations. Technologies include: (i) measurement systems which monitors and register the activities of the user at home and with his peers, (ii) behavior modeling and user profiling techniques, which produce a pattern of user’s activities over time by analyzing and summarizing the large sensory data and registered logs; and (iii) a user interface which provides personalized recommendations and reminders encouraging activities to the user. The offered recommendations can be in the form of suggesting individual activities at home, such as preparing meals or social interactions with peers, such as setting up a board game at home. SONOPA consortium consists of selected partners, with complementary expertise and skill sets, which provide a comprehensive coverage of the end-to-end needs to develop and deploy the system and test its performance, as well as investigate the benefits and user acceptance issues. |
| Network | AAL |
| Call | Call 5 – Daily Life Activities |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abotic Gmbh | Austria | ||
| Blue Danube Robotic OG | Austria | ||
| Camera-Contact | France | ||
| Christelijke Mutualiteit Waas en Dender | Belgium | ||
| Docobo Limited | United Kingdom | ||
| E-Seniors | France | ||
| iMinds | Belgium | ||
| Institute for BroadBand Technology | Belgium | ||
| Smart Signs Holding B.V. | Netherlands | ||
| Spring Techno GmbH & Co. KG | Germany | ||
| Universidad de la Iglesia de Deusto | Spain | ||
| University of Twente | Netherlands |