Academic

Research papers

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• • Achilleas Achilleos, Stylianos Georgiou, Christos Mettouris, Alexandros Yeratziotis, Charalambos Theodorou, George Papadopoulos, Kale Strahinja Lazic, Stefan Parker, Karol Pecyna, Joanna Starosta, Sotiria Moza and Andria Hadjicosta, “Lessons Learned from Older Adults fusing of an Augmented Reality, Assisted-Living and Social Interaction Platform, accepted and to be published in the Special Issue “New Digital Technologies for Health, Accessibility, and Wellbeing” of the Journal Springer Nature Computer Science: https://www.springer.com/journal/42979. 
  • Our paper ‘GUIDed: An Augmented Reality Assisted-Living and Social Interaction Platform for Older Adults’ published at ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IC-IHAW 2021), as part the work in the GUIDed AAL EU project (https://guided-project.eu). Find the proceedings here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-94209-0_7
  • BEST PAPER AWARD for our paper “GUIDed: Assisted-Living Smart Platform & Social Communication for Older Adults” published at I4CS 2021 , as part the work in the GUIDed AAL EU project (https://guided-project.eu). Find the proceedings here: https://lnkd.in/eddBTTag
    Gongrats to the project partners: SEIT Lab/ Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου | University Of Cyprus , Mdl Frederick / Frederick University Cyprus, Όμιλος Ματέρια – Materia Group, Karde AS, and Harpo, Platus Learning Systems GmbH, KI-I!
  • The project team’s paper ‘GUIDed: Assisted-Living Smart Platform & Social Communication for Older Adults’ was accepted for presentation at the 21th International Conference on Innovations for Community Services (I4CS 2021) in Bamberg, Germany , May 26 – 28 , 2021.
  • Achilleas Achilleos, Stylianos Georgiou, Christos Mettouris, Alexandros Yeratziotis, Charalambos Theodorou, George Papadopoulos, Kale Strahinja Lazic, Stefan Parker, Karol Pecyna, Joanna Starosta, Sotiria Moza and Andria Hadjicosta, “Lessons Learned from Older Adults fusing of an Augmented Reality, Assisted-Living and Social Interaction Platform, accepted and to be published in the Special Issue “New Digital Technologies for Health, Accessibility, and Wellbeing” of the Journal Springer Nature Computer Science: https://www.springer.com/journal/42979. 

Presentations/speeches

• Christos Mettouris et. al: GUIDed: Assisted-Living Smart Platform & Social Communication for Older AdultsGUIDed: Assisted-Living Smart Platform & Social Communication for Older Adults. International Conference on Innovations for Community Services (I4CS 2021), May 26 – 28, 2021 Conference.
• Presentation on GUIDed at IKT-Forum (a German-speaking conference on disability, accessibility and assistive technology, www.iktforum.at) (14.7.2021)
• Presentation of IHAW-Paper (GUIDed: An Augmented Reality Assisted-Living and Social Interaction Platform for Older Adults) at the IHAW2021 conference by Kale Lazic (the paper is there under “Research papers”, but we might as well mention separately that we actually presented it there)

• Presentation of GUIDed on the “Integra” trade-fair in Wels/Austria (by Platus, supported by KI-I)

Posters

• Achilleos, A., Hellman, R. and Sturmair, D. :  A handful understandable pieces of advice for clean app interface design in lifestyle services by one button click. 5th international conference on Universal Design, UD2021, June 9 – 11 2021 at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. Poster Sessions.

• Moza, S. and Polycarpou, M.: Senior-GUIDed UD principles: Tackling the ‘older adult’ stereotype. 5th international conference on Universal Design, UD2021, June 9 – 11 2021 at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. Poster Sessions.

Conferences, presentations, stands and demos

Brain – development – communication. The need for interdisciplinary support

On March 2, 2022, Harpo took part in the 1st Scientific and Training Conference “Brain – development – communication. The need for interdisciplinary support”organized by the Congress and Teaching Center and the Center of Medical Biology of the Medical University of Poznań. The aim of the conference was to create a forum for the presentation and discussion of positions, approaches, theories, paradigms, research results, as well as therapeutic solutions and programs. The event was attended by representatives of various scientific disciplines as well as practitioners involved in development and therapeutic work.

It was a great opportunity to present GUIDed project at Harpo’s conference booth. Harpo demonstrated a working version of the system with all GUIDed services, what met with the interest of participants and visitors of the conference exhibition.

The project is co-financed by the National Center for Research and Development (PL) as part of the Active Assisted Living (AAL) Program – Call 2019.

Link to the conference: http://www.mozg2022.bok-ump.pl/

EWAHA2022 — European Week of Active and Healthy Ageing

In October 2022, Materia Group and Harpo, GUIDed consortium partners, participated in the European Week of Active and Healthy ageing (EWAHA) in Gdansk, Poland. Andria Hadjicosta, Romina Sampanai, Joanna Starosta-Sztuczka and Karol Pecyna organized an interactive workshop titled: “Funneling user feedback into business models: experiences from the GUIDed project”. Participants had the opportunity to learn about the importance of the UCD methodology and how UCD methodology can be used in R&D projects with examples from the GUIDed project. They also attended a live demonstration of the GUIDed system.

By the end of the workshop, participants, had access to an online “take-home”checklist and tips that they can use for future and ongoing projects.

Link to the conference: https://ageing-well-week.eu/