PAAL aims to understand users’ requirements in terms of perceived benefits and barriers and to increase the awareness of issues associated with lifelogging, establishing guidelines for responsible research in these technologies.
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In January 2019, the paper “Legal and regulatory challenges to utilizing lifelogging technologies for the frail and sick” was published in the “Oxford International Journal of Law and Information Technology”. The paper can be accessed at the journal website. Lifelogging technologies have the capacity to transform the health and social care landscape in a way […]
In December 2018, the paper “Ambient Assisted Living as Support for Aging in Place: Quantitative Users’ Acceptance Study on Ultrasonic Whistles” was published in the “Journal of Medical Internet Research – Aging”. The paper can be accessed at the journal website. Background Given the fact of an aging society, new supply measures and living concepts […]
On 8-9 November 2018, Liane Colonna, from Stockholm University, attended the conference The resilience of General Principles of EU law and Fundamental Rights in the Digital EU Legal Order, organised by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, which was held held in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr Colonna presented a paper entitled “Whether the requirement of data […]
In September 2018, the paper “They Don’t Care About Us! Care Personnel’s Perspectives on Ambient Assisted Living Technology Usage: Scenario-Based Survey Study” was published in the “Journal of Medical Internet Research – Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies”. The paper can be accessed at the journal website. Background Demographic change represents enormous burdens for the care sectors, […]
On the 23rd September 2018 the Consortium had the second plenary meeting of the PAAL project. This meeting was held in Bilbao in the previous day to the start of the AAL Forum 2018. Julia Offermann-van Heek and Wiktoria Wilkowska, from RWTH Aachen University, presented the ongoing work in WP1 – Ethical and Social Framework […]
On September 4, 2018, Susanna Spinsante from Università Politecnica delle Marche attended the IEEE Sixth International Conference on Consumer Electronics – Berlin (ICCE-Berlin) held in Berlin, Germany, chairing the session “Consumer Healthcare”, during which she also presented the paper “Privacy-aware and acceptable lifelogging services for older and frail people: The PAAL project”. Developed countries around […]
On 21-25 July 2018, Chantal Lidynia, from RWTH Aachen University, attended the 9th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2018) (Track: Human Factors and Wearable Technologies), held in Orlando, United States, and presented a paper entitled “Step by Step – Users and Non-Users of Life-Logging Technologies.“ A pronounced deficit of physical activity is one of […]
On 15 and 16 May the University of Alicante held the kick-off meeting for the European project entitled “Privacy-aware and acceptable lifelogging services for older and frail people” (PAAL project, in short), which aims to develop lifelogging services for older and frail people (i.e. capturing data about a person’s lifestyle to deduce their health and […]
On 22-23 March 2018, Wiktoria Wilkowska, from RWTH Aachen University, attended the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Aging Well and eHealth (ICT4AWE 2018), held in Funchal, Portugal, and presented a paper entitled “Understanding Trust in Medical Technologies.“ This paper aims to extend knowledge with respect to trust in health-related technology and […]