Client / Funding programme:
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action CA19121
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Start and end dates:
2020 – 2024
Website: goodbrother.eu – COST action 19121
AFEdemy role in the project:
☐ Coordination
☐ Research
☐ Training
☐ Curriculum development
☐ e-Learning Platform
☒ Networking
☐ Policy recommendation
Europe faces crucial challenges regarding health and social care due to the demographic change and current economic context. Active and Assisted Living (AAL) are a possible solution to face them. AAL aims at improving health, quality of life, and wellbeing of older, impaired and frail people. AAL systems use different sensors to monitor the environment and its dwellers. Cameras and microphones are being more frequently used for AAL. They allow to monitor an environment and gather information, being the most straightforward and natural ways of describing events, persons, objects, actions, and interactions. Recent advances have given these devices the ability to ‘see’ and ‘hear’. However, their use can be seen as intrusive by some end users (assisted persons, and professional and informal caregivers.)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) establishes the obligation for technologies to meet the principles of data protection by design and data protection by default. Therefore, AAL solutions must consider privacy-by-design methodologies in order to protect the fundamental rights of those being monitored.
Quadruple helix of citizens, researchers, business and public authorities.
Researchers from COST Countries.