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MOBISERV – FP7248434
An Integrated Intelligent Home Environment for the
Provision of Health, Nutrition and Mobility Services to the
Elderly
Deliverable
D8.7: Report on dissemination activities and events
Date of delivery: August 2013
Contributing Partners: SMH, All
Date Issued: August 2013
D8.7 – Report on Dissemination Activities and Events
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Document Control
Title: D7.8: Report on dissemination activities and events
Project: MOBISERV (FP7 248434)
Nature: Report Dissemination Level: Public
Authors: SMH, UWE, ANNA, ROBS, AUTH, SMARTEX, CSEM, LUT
Origin: SMH
Doc ID: MOBISERV D8.7 - Dissemination Report.doc
Amendment History
Version Date Author Description/Comments
v0.1 2013-04-25 SMH First version: ToC and initial content
v0.8 2013-08-08 SMH Update
v1.0 2013-08-31 ALL partners Full update and finalization
The information contained in this report is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by any members of
the MOBISERV Consortium. The MOBISERV Consortium assumes no responsibility for the use or inability to use any software or
algorithms, which might be described in this report. The information is provided without any warranty of any kind and the MOBISERV
Consortium expressly disclaims all implied warranties, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular use.
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Table of contents
1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 5
2 LIVE EVENTS & PRESENTATIONS .............................................................................. 6
2.1 NON-SCIENTIFIC ......................................................................................................... 6
2.2 SCIENTIFIC ................................................................................................................ 14
3 RADIO & TV COVERAGE............................................................................................. 20
4 PUBLICATIONS – PRINTED ......................................................................................... 21
4.1 NON-SCIENTIFIC ....................................................................................................... 21
4.2 SCIENTIFIC ................................................................................................................ 26
5 PUBLICATIONS – ONLINE ........................................................................................... 31
5.1 IN FINNISH ................................................................................................................. 31
5.2 IN FRENCH ................................................................................................................. 31
5.3 IN GREEK ................................................................................................................... 31
5.4 IN ITALIAN ................................................................................................................. 32
5.5 IN DUTCH ................................................................................................................... 32
5.6 IN ENGLISH ................................................................................................................ 32
5.7 IN SPANISH ................................................................................................................ 33
6 FUTURE EVENTS........................................................................................................... 34
APPENDIX 1: PRESS RELEASE – APRIL 2013 .................................................................. 35
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Table of figures
Figure 1: Vivian Vergouwen being interviewed at the “Beurs Domotica & Slim Wonen”. ...... 6
Figure 2: Children around Kompaï at the re-opening of the “St. Anna Hospital”. .................... 7
Figure 3: Poster presentation at the RoboNED conference. ...................................................... 7
Figure 4 Bristol Celebrating Age Festival, discussion with one of the service providers ......... 8
Figure 5: Demonstration Dutch Technology Week 2012. ......................................................... 9
Figure 6: Demo at the Brain Experience.................................................................................. 10
Figure 7: Demonstration at the AAL Forum 2012 VIP Tour. ................................................. 10
Figure 8: Demonstration at the “St. Anna Hospital”. ............................................................... 11
Figure 9: Demonstration at CENROB in France. .................................................................... 12
Figure 10: Demonstration in Centre Oscar Lambret hospital. ................................................. 12
Figure 11: Presentation of the KIEN conference on “Robotics in Care”. ............................... 13
Figure 12: Celebration of Age, Bristol, Participants joining in with the Exercises ................. 13
Figure 13: Article about MOBISERV in a Japanese newspaper. ............................................ 22
Figure 14: Smart Homes Magazine with Kompaï in the cover page. ...................................... 22
Figure 15: Article and interview in Dutch “Technisch Weekblad”.......................................... 23
Figure 16: Article in regional newspaper................................................................................. 24
Figure 17: Article in regional newspaper................................................................................. 24
Figure 18: Article and the “Anna” magazine. .......................................................................... 25
Figure 19: Article and the “Eleutheros Typos” newspaper. ..................................................... 25
Figure 20: Article in 13 regional newspapers in the Netherlands. ........................................... 26
Figure 21: On the front-page of www.amanoz.cl .................................................................... 33
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1 Introduction
This deliverable reports on the concrete implementation of the dissemination plans during the
MOBISERV project’s period. It covers live events and presentations, radio & TV
performances, printed publications, and online publications.
It also highlights planned dissemination activities for the time after the project has ended.
For a full description of the dissemination plans, see D8.5 Plan for the Use and
Dissemination of Foreground, in which the plans for dissemination activities have been
extensively described.
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2 Live Events & Presentations
The following lists summarize the events that MOBISERV participated in by live talks and/or
presentations by one or more of the consortium partners.
2.1 Non-Scientific
2010 • "The ICT Event 2010", September 27-29, 2010, Brussels, Belgium. During this event
MOBISERV brochures have been disseminated to raise public awareness about the
project and its activities. Furthermore, the project has been presented in the networking
session on "E-Inclusion Companion-Robots (EI-CR) Networking Session Focus:
Companion Robotics for e-Inclusion & Ambient Assisted Living", along with other
related projects.
• "De Beurs Domotica & Slim Wonen 2010" (large fair of Home Automation and Smart
Homes organized by project partner SMH), November 17 and 18, 2010, Eindhoven, the
Netherlands. ANANZ (ANNA) represented MOBISERV with a stand showing the initial
MOBISERV components such as the robot prototype, smart textiles, and the overall
concept ideas of MOBISERV. On the first day, also a representative of ROBS was
present. The event attracted about 3.000 visitors, representing care workers, installation
companies, building companies, government officials, etc. who are interested in smart
home technology or AAL. MOBISERV leaflets have been disseminated to many people.
The event has been an excellent opportunity to start a list of contacts with end user
communities in the Netherlands that are interested in our project, but also to interview
some of the visitors at the MOBISERV booth, to find out more about the MOBISERV
concepts, and possible exploitation of the MOBISERV expected results.
Figure 1: Vivian Vergouwen being interviewed at the “Beurs Domotica & Slim Wonen”.
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2011 • "Re-Opening of the St. Anna Hospital" held on March 19 in Geldrop, The Netherlands.
MOBISERV presented to a very broad audience as innovation project of Ananz, the
branch of the St. Anna Hospital that is focused on older people. Demonstration of the
Kompaï robot and of the MOBISERV concept videos.
Figure 2: Children around Kompaï at the re-opening of the “St. Anna Hospital”.
• Brunel Care Research Forum, March 30, 2011. Event with carers and other secondary
stakeholders to explore the integration of MOBISERV into existing practice. Invited talk
of Dr. Caleb-Solly / UWE.
• "INVEST IN IMAGINATION: Independence using Assistive Technology", April 1, 2011,
Hereford, United Kingdom. The audience of this event has been carers, service providers
and manufacturers of Assistive technology. Dr. Caleb-Solly / UWE gave an invited talk.
The title of the presentation was: "MOBISERV: An Integrated Intelligent Home
Environment for the Provision of Health, Nutrition and Mobility Services for Older
Adults". MOBISERV concepts and research-to-date have been disseminated.
• "The first RoboNED conference", April 27, 2011, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Poster
presentation of MOBISERV by Smart Homes, including the MOBISERV concept videos.
Figure 3: Poster presentation at the RoboNED conference.
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• Annual General Meeting of the Bristol Older Persons Forum at Bristol City Council
Chambers, May 26, 2011. Presentation by UWE and demo of the Kompaï robot.
• "Bristol Celebrating Age Festival 2011", September 3, 2011, Bristol, United Kingdom.
This was an event for older adults to introduce them to a range of support services and
technologies organised by the Bristol City Council and Bristol Older Peoples Forum.
MOBISERV partner UWE showed concept videos of the MOBISERV system and gave a
demonstration of existing functionalities (voice control of shopping list, emailing, and
weather forecasts) on the PRU, and the WHSU (vests and live graphs of the sensor data).
This was followed by individual and small group hands-on sessions. Participants were
then asked to fill out a questionnaire. 29 older people completed the questionnaire and
took part in an unstructured group discussion.
Figure 4 Bristol Celebrating Age Festival, discussion with one of the service providers
• Invited talk by Herjan van den Heuvel (SMH) on the national event “Strategic Bridging:
Domotics & Robotics” organized by Domotica Platform Nederland, September 30th
, on the
topic of “Domotics and Social Robotics” discussing findings of two FP7 projects
MOBISERV and CompanionAble.
• "Technasium Top Award" kick-off event, organized by Technasium, Stichting TOP and
Stichting Smart Homes on November 7th
in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The Technasium
Top Award is a competition for young students to develop new ideas and concepts and
build these in small groups. Every year another topic is chosen and this year’s topic was
smart living. On the kick-off event, over 30 companies, universities and research projects
presented themselves to inspire and inform 1100 students from the Netherlands. Herjan
van den Heuvel and Claire Huijnen (SMH) presented the MOBISERV robot and
MOBISERV concept videos at a stand.
• Yearly two-day event on home automation and smart living “De Beurs Domotica & Slim
Wonen 2011”, November 23rd
and 24th
, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Talk by Herjan van
den Heuvel (SMH) on home automation and two social robotics projects MOBISERV and
COMPANIONABLE entitled “Domotics and Robotics” with a strong focus on the user-
centred design protocol and early findings from user trials with these robotics and smart
homes.
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2012
• March 2012, Bristol, UK: Invited talk at the Brunel Care Research Forum in Bristol,
Presentation by UWE for ±20 professional carers
• May 21, 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Invited talk and demo at “Zorg op Afstand
met Robots” conference (Remote Care with Robots). Claire Huijnen (SMH) presented the
Mobiserv project, evaluation findings, and gave a demo with the robot. (100 professional
carers)
• June 5, 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Demo at TEDxBrainport conference. Herjan
van den Heuvel and Claire Huijnen (SMH) gave a demo with the Mobiserv robot. (500
visitors)
• June 6, 2012, Veldhoven, The Netherlands: Demo at “Vision & Robotics” conference.
Herjan van den Heuvel and Claire Huijnen (SMH) gave a demo with the Mobiserv robot.
(over 1000 professionals and students)
• June 7, 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Presentation and demo at open house of
Smart Homes during Dutch Technology Week. Herjan van den Heuvel and Claire
Huijnen (SMH) presented Mobiserv and gave a demo with of the robot and smart home
environment (100 visitors)
Figure 5: Demonstration Dutch Technology Week 2012.
• June 15, 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Presentation and demo for general
practitioners. Herjan van den Heuvel and Claire Huijnen (SMH) presented Mobiserv and
gave a demo with of the robot and smart home environment (17 general practitioners)
• June 21, 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Invited talk at “Home Automation & E-
Health” conference. Koen van Haaren (ANNA) presented the MOBISERV project.
• June 26, 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Poster presentation and demo at “House of
Robots” conference at University of Eindhoven. Herjan van den Heuvel and Claire
Huijnen (SMH) presented Mobiserv and gave a demo with of the robot.
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• July 7 – August 19, 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Poster presentation and demo at
Brain Experience Exposition. SMH presented and demonstrated the Mobiserv project and
robot.
Figure 6: Demo at the Brain Experience.
• September 19, 2012, Lappeenranta, Finland: Invited speech at Eksote (South Karelia
Social and Health Care District) scientific day. Pekka Jäppinen presented the
MOBISERV solution for supporting independent living.
• September 24, 2012: Live demo en presentation at the VIP-tour of the opening of the
AAL Forum 2012. Claire Huijnen, Herjan van den Heuvel, Ad van Berlo presented the
MOBISERV project and robot to 20 VIPs from Europe and The Netherlands in the area
of AAL and ICT & Ageing.
Figure 7: Demonstration at the AAL Forum 2012 VIP Tour.
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• October 23, 2012, Geldrop, The Netherlands: Presentation and demo at open house of St.
Anna Hospital. Vivian Vergouwen (ANNA) presented and demonstrated the Mobiserv
project and robot.
Figure 8: Demonstration at the “St. Anna Hospital”.
• October 30, 2012, Bussem, The Netherlands: Invited talk and demo at conference
“Informatisering in de Ouderenzorg 2.0” by Actiz (Informatization in Senior Care 2.0).
Herjan van den Heuvel and Claire Huijnen (SMH) presented the Mobiserv project,
evaluation findings, and gave a demo with the robot.
• November 21 – 22, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Poster presentation and demonstration
at Smart Homes Exhibition. Herjan van den Heuvel and Claire Huijnen (SMH)
demonstrated the Mobiserv robot and evaluation findings (over 1600 visitors)
2013
• March 14, 2013, Utrecht, The Netherlands: Project and trials presentation at national
conference “Zorg & ICT” (Care & ICT) by Claire Huijnen (SMH) and Arie Maas
(ANNA) for about 200 people.
• April 22, 2013, Mierlo, The Netherlands: Demonstration at “Senior Market” organized by
ANNA and the municipality of Mierlo. Claire Huijnen presented the MOBISERV project
to about 300 visitors.
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• April 25, 2013, Paris, France: MOBISERV was showcased at CENROB during a French
bank general assembly. Focused on assistive robotics to provide relevant technological
answers to the needs of persons with disabilities, the group of experts (mostly caregivers)
got funded by the bank for their close involvement in practical solutions for those in need.
www.cenrob.org
Figure 9: Demonstration at CENROB in France.
• May 14, 2013, Bristol, UK: IET Industry Event at the Bristol Robotics Lab. Researchers
from UWE showed MOBISERV to about 100 people, engineering and technology
specialists and representatives from a range of companies from around the south-west of
England.
• May 15, 2013, Lille, France: MOBISERV robot got demonstrated in an hospital (Centre
Oscar Lambret) in Lille, to decrease physician’s workload through better logistics. The
robot was put to contribution by carrying chemo pouches throughout the hospital, directly
from the pharmacy to services where elders await their chemo procedures. Deliveries
performed by the robot enable the medical staff to strictly focus on patients and their on-
going procedures, rather than having to carry on with tasks with poor added value.
www.centreoscarlambret.fr
Figure 10: Demonstration in Centre Oscar Lambret hospital.
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• June 22, 2013, London, the UK: Praminda Caleb-Solly (UWE) presented the project at
Assistive Robots, The Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics in London.
• June 26, 2013, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Invited talk at “Robotics in Care” conference,
organized by KIEN – a non-profit organisation stimulating innovation in the electrical
engineering branch – during the RoboCup 2013. Herjan van den Heuvel (SMH) presented
MOBISERV for about 60 home-automation professionals. www.robocup2013.org
Figure 11: Presentation of the KIEN conference on “Robotics in Care”.
• June 29, 2013: Praminda Caleb-Solly (UWE) presented the project at the Celebrating Age
Festival. Demonstration and Talk at Bristol City Council Open to the general public and
care service providers.
Figure 12: Celebration of Age, Bristol, Participants joining in with the Exercises
• July 2, 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece: AUTH organized a full-day workshop on MOBISERV
and related research, in close cooperation with the Greek Association of Alzheimer’s
Disease and Related Disorders. See deliverable D8.6 MOBISERV Closing Workshop
Proceedings for details.
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• July 10-11, 2013, Geldrop, The Netherlands: SMH and ANNA organized 2 full-day live
presentations and demonstrations of MOBISERV in two care homes of Ananz. Claire
Huijnen and Herjan van den Heuvel presented the project and demonstrated the robot to a
large amount of clients, family, professional carers, informal carers, volunteers, etc.
• July 2013, Pisa, Italy: presentation at “ICTUS: PREVENZIONE, TERAPIA E
RIABILITAZIONE” (In English: Stroke: prevention, therapy and rehabilitation) – an
update and training day for nurses, carers & therapists in Pisa, by Roberto Orselli,
SMARTEX. This was a training class for caregivers. It was dedicated to stroke and post-
stroke management, but most caregivers were not dedicated to post-stroke patients only, in
fact they had long experience with elderly adults suffering from all types of illness. About
50 caregivers and 10 physicians attended this event.
• August 30, 2013, Paris, France: MOBISERV robot got demonstrated in another hospital
(Hôpital Broca) in Paris. This medical unit is dedicated to geriatrics and memory issues
involved with age. The robot got tested with success by interacting with patients under
physician’s supervision, in order to determine how cognitive stimulation gets more
efficient with a robot. www.gerontologie.vermeil.org
2.2 Scientific
2010 • "The 6th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2010)", 4-7 May, 2010,
Athens, Greece. The MOBISERV project coordinator, Systema Technologies S.A., was
one of the sponsors of the conference. During the event, MOBISERV brochures have
been disseminated to raise awareness about the project and its activities. Furthermore,
AUTH has presented the work “Face detection using Particle Swarm Optimization and
Support Vector Machines”, which has been conducted in the framework of MOBISERV.
Face detection is an important step towards automatic facial expression analysis needed in
WP4.
• "The 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI2010)", July 18-
23, 2010, Barcelona, Spain. Research work conducted within MOBISERV on "Using
Particle Swarm Optimization for Scaling and Rotation invariant Face Detection" has been
presented.
• "The 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010)", August 23-26,
2010, Istanbul, Turkey. Research work conducted within MOBISERV on "Subclass Error
Correcting Output Codes using Fisher's Linear Discriminant Ratio" has been presented.
• "The 20th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2010)",
September 15-18, 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece. Research work conducted within
MOBISERV on "Frontal view recognition using Spectral Clustering and Subspace
Learning methods" and on "Improving the Robustness of Subspace Learning Techniques
for Facial Expression Recognition" has been presented.
• "The 4th Companion Robotics Workshop" held on September 30, 2010, Brussels,
Belgium. As previously mentioned, research work conducted within the scope of the
project has been presented and a demonstration of the Robosoft's Kompaï robot (which
will be used and adapted to the context of MOBISERV) took place during the event. The
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workshop has been also an excellent opportunity to get in contact with projects
CompanionAble and FLORENCE that share common interests with MOBISERV.
• "The 3rd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical
and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 2010)", October 7-10, 2010, Rome, Italy.
This symposium is sponsored by EMB-IEEE and SMARTEX was invited to show newest
results: MOBISERV leaflet were distributed (about 50 copies) and goals and results were
shown to event participants.
• "The 8th Finish-Russian University Cooperation in Telecommunications (FRUCT)
Conference", November 9-12, 2010, Lappeenranta, Finland. During the event, an abstract
paper on "Aspects of a messages-bus based communications framework in multi-modal
and multi-device environment to support independent living of elder people" has been
presented.
2011 • "The 5th CRI Workshop" held on March 8, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. MOBISERV
presented as part of the topic: "Do not call it a robot, call it a companion" Social and
Ethical reflections on Companion Robotics (presentation made by project Claire Huijnen/
Smart Homes) including demonstration of the MOBISERV concept videos, created by
SMH in January 2011.
• "Technology with Disabled and Older People: Business development, Building alliances
and Impact assessment", March 28-29, 2011, London, United Kingdom. This European
Conference held in association with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills,
Age Platform Europe, the Knowledge Transfer Network, the Technology Strategy Board
and the EU. Dr. Caleb-Solly / UWE presented the MOBISERV concept and research-to-
date.
• "Konferens om planering och byggande av framtidens äldreboende" ("Conference about
Planning and Building Elderly Homes of the Future"), April 13-14, 2011, Stockholm,
Sweden. The audience of this conference was architects, interior designers, public and
private developers, consultants, contractors, suppliers, designers and other players who
wanted to gain a deep insight into knowledge about nursing homes in Sweden and
internationally. Ms. Nani/ SYSTEMA gave an invited talk on "Robots and Other
Technologies in Tomorrow’s Elderly Homes: a 3-year Project on International Scale".
• Invited talk of Prof. Pitas at ISTI institute at CNR Pisa with title “Dyneme Representation
for Action Recognition” by A. Iosifidis, A. Tefas and I. Pitas. In this talk the basic
algorithms used by AUTH in MOBISERV for eating/drinking activity recognition have
been presented to the researchers of ISTI institute at CNR.
• AI Symposium on “Future Helpers: Integrating Robotics in our day to day lives”, May
18, 2011, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Invited talk by Claire Huijnen, Smart Homes on the
projects MOBISERV and CompanionAble, entitled “Do not call it a robot! Call it a
companion! Graceful cooperation between companion robotics and smart homes”.
• "Terve-SOS 2011", May 18-19, 2011, Espoo, Finland. Terve-SOS is the biggest social and
healthcare fair and education event in Finland. During the event, MOBISERV flyers have
been disseminated.
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• Invited talk of Prof. Pitas at the Institute for Telematics and Informatics (ITI), CERTH,
Thessaloniki, with title “Facial expression recognition using Nonnegative Matrix
Factorization” on June 1st 2011. In this talk the basic algorithms for facial expression
recognition developed by AUTH have been presented to the researchers of ITI. The
corresponding recent work in MOBISERV has been highlighted.
• "Energy Harvesting & Storage Wireless Sensor Networks Europe 2011 conference and
exhibition", June 21-22, 2011, Munich, Germany. Invited talk by Dr. Rita Paradiso, PhD
(SMARTEX) in the session "Ambient and Assisted Living" with title "Sensors Integration
in Electronic Textiles Platforms for Monitoring in a Natural Environment".
• "The 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)", June
27 - 30, 2011, Bristol, UK. Research work conducted within MOBISERV on "Cameras as
cultural probes in requirements gathering - Exploring their potential in supporting the
design of assistive technology" has been presented.
• "The 33rd International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces (ITI 2011)", June 27-30, Cavtat/Dubrovnik, Croatia. Research work conducted within MOBISERV on
"Object Tracking Based on Local Steering Kernels for Drinking Activity Recognition" has
been presented (http://iti.srce.unizg.hr/index.php/ITI/index/pages/view/homepage).
• "British Society Gerontology - 40th Annual Conference", July 5-7, 2011, Plymouth, United
Kingdom. Research paper "MOBISERV, An integrated intelligent home environment" has
been represented.
• "The 20th International Summer School on Telecommunications", August 17-18, 2011,
Lappeenranta, Finland. The 20th Summer School focus was on using ICT to support
independent living of older adults. The program consisted of several presentations from
MOBISERV project and was complimented by few presentations from welfare service
researchers of Technology Business research centre of Lappeenranta (www.tbrc.fi). At the
end of the Summer School the students created mobile application to support independent
living inspired by the presentations. The student codes and their presentations are available
at www.codecamp.fi/doku.php/ssotc_2011/ssotc_2011_code_camp.
• "The 19th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2011)", August 29 -
September 2, 2011, Barcelona, Spain. Research work conducted within MOBISERV on
"Using Subclasses in Discriminant Non-Negative Subspace Learning for Facial
Expression Recognition" and "Person Specific Activity Recognition Using Fuzzy
Learning and Discriminant Analysis" has been presented. The corresponding papers have
been appended in D4.2.
• "AAL FORUM 2011", September 26-28, 2011, Lecce, Italy (Annual conference of the
Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme). Initial trials from MOBISERV have been
presented by project member Praminda Caleb-Solly in the Side Event Social robotics:
experiences with end-users [http://api.ning.com/files/OGzhRifskjeVEnKZd-
iWhC4ZrAWzjrSsDjwjDg5SCo6v93GXQG2yaFNPaKcajMtB9YjZSXaIDCYDZWQiA
WAhpI4pSi9-KIai/SocialroboticsSideEventRationaleProgramme2.pdf].
• "International Conference on Man-Machine Interactions (ICMMI 2011)", October 6-9,
2011, The Beskids, Poland. Research work conducted within MOBISERV on "Nutrition
Assistance based on Skin Colour Segmentation and Support Vector Machines" has been
presented. Furthermore, the nutrition support and context-aware methods developed under
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the framework of MOBISERV have been presented in the invited talk on human centred
interfaces for assisted living.
• "The 10th Finish-Russian University Cooperation in Telecommunications (FRUCT)
Conference", November 8-11, 2011, Tampere, Finland. During the event, a presentation
on "Privacy and security in older adults independent living assistance platform" has been
given.
• "The Second International Joint Conference on AmI 2011", Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
November 16-18, 2011. Claire Huijnen (SMH) presented a paper about the results and
ideas coming from user trials within two FP7 projects on social robotics MOBISERV and
COMPANIONABLE entitled “Maybe it becomes a buddy, but do not call it a robot –
Seamless Cooperation between Companion Robotics and Smart Homes” in the plenary
session of this conference.
• Presentation of invited paper on recent advances in discriminant non-negative matrix
factorization in the "First Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR 2011)",
November 28-30, 2011 Beijing China. Prof. Pitas has invited to be a keynote speaker in
the first Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition where he have described part of the
work performed under the MOBISERV framework on discriminant nonnegative matrix
factorization. www.acpr2011.org/UserFiles/File/ACPR%20Presentation.pdf.
• Presentation of A. Hutter on “Medical multi-parameter monitoring sprots-shirts”, at the
SmartText Symposium 2011, Weimar, Germany, November 30, 2011.
2012 • Presentation at AALIANCE2 Stakeholder Workshop on Technologies for AAL solutions.
SMRTX presented the Mobiserv project to the AALIANCE2 consortium, to EU experts,
and to many other EU research project delegates. February 14, 2012, Pisa, Italy.
• Presentation at the “Design Ahead, Design for an Aging Population” KT- EQUAL
national conference. Presentation by Praminda Caleb-Solly (UWE) for ±70 people from
assistive technology industry and academia. March 1 – 2, 2012, Bristol, UK.
• Invited talk at EU Robotics Forum. Eric Lucet (ROBS) presented the technical part of the
MOBISERV project. March 5 – 7, 2012, Odense, Denmark.
• Invited talk at EU Robotics Forum. Ad van Berlo (SMH) presented the user-centred
design and evaluation part of the MOBISERV project. March 5 – 7, 2012, Odense,
Denmark.
• Two presentations at IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing in
Kyoto (ICASSP) in Japan (March 25-30, 2012, Kyoto). Prof. Pitas presented two papers
on the results of AUTH in MOBISERV: Iosifidis A., Marami E., Tefas A. and Pitas I.:
"Eating and drinking activity recognition based on discriminant analysis of fuzzy
distances and activity volumes" and Olga Zoidi, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas,
"Visual Object Tracking Based on the Object's Salient Features with Application in
Automatic Nutrition Assistance".
• Paper presentation at CIMTEC 2012 4th International conference Smart Materials
Structure Systems. Tommaso Faetti (SMARTEX) presented a focus on WHSU for night
monitoring: T. Faetti, R. Paradiso: "A novel wearable system for elderly monitoring".
June 11-13, 2012, Montecatini Terme, Italy
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• Paper presentation at IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN),
ΙΕΕΕ World Congress on Computational Intelligence. Prof. Pitas presented the results of
MOBISERV in WP4: Iosifidis A., Tefas A. and Pitas I.: "Neural representation and
learning for multi-view human action recognition". June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia.
• Paper presentation at ISG*ISARC2012, world conference on gerontechnology. Herjan van
den Heuvel (SMH) presented H. v.d. Heuvel, P. Caleb-Solly, C. Huijnen, D. Ellender, E.
Lucet, Y. Pons, A. Tefas, H.H. Nap, S. Dogramadzi, C. Fear, M. Nani. “Mobiserv; a
service robot and intelligent home environment for the provision of health, nutrition and
safety services to older adults”. June 27 – 29, 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
• Paper presentation at European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2012. Two
conference papers about the work of AUTH on eating and drinking activity recognition
have been presented: Iosifidis, A. Tefas and I. Pitas, "Multi-view Human Action
Recognition Under Occlusion Based on Fuzzy Distances and Neural Networks" and O.
Zoidi, A. Tefas and I. Pitas, "Visual Object Tracking via Gabor-based Salient Features
Extraction". August 26-31, 2012, Bucharest, Romania.
• Presentation at AAL Forum 2012 . Herjan v.d. Heuvel (SMH) presented: H. v.d. Heuvel,
C. Huijnen, P. Caleb-Solly, D. Ellender. “Mobiserv; a new kind of coach in the journey to
independent living; wellbeing, nutrition and safety services to older adults”. September
24 – 27, 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
• Presentation at AAL Forum 2012. Praminda Caleb-Solly (UWE) presented “The
psychology of loneliness – A montage of perspectives”. September 24 – 27, 2012,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
• Paper presentation at 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal
Processing (MLSP). Anastasios Tefas presented the results in WP4: N. Vretos, A. Tefas
and I. Pitas, “Facial Expression Recognition With Robust Covariance Estimation And
Support Vector Machines”. September 24 – 27, 2012, Santander, Spain.
• Paper presentation at IEEE 2012 International Conference on Image Processing. Prof.
Pitas presented the results of MOBISERV in WP4 in the IEEE International Conference
on Image Processing: A. Iosifidis, A. Tefas and I. Pitas, “Discriminant Action
Representation for View-Invariant Person Identification”. September 30 to October 3,
2012, Orlando, Florida, USA.
• Presentation at “Showcasing research to promote active ageing: from Rehabilitation
robots to Assistive technologies” at KT-Equal 2012. Praminda Caleb-Solly (UWE)
presented the Mobiserv project to ±50 academics + commercial partners + clinicians and
older adults from the community. October 19, 2012, Hertfordshire, UK.
2013 • Paper presentation at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI),
Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management. Prof. Pitas presented
the results of MOBISERV: Iosifidis A., Tefas A. and Pitas I.: “Person Identification from
Actions based on Artificial Neural Network”. April 16-19, 2013, Singapore.
• Paper presentation at IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF).
Prof. Pitas presented the results of MOBISERV: Iosifidis A., Tefas A. and Pitas I.:
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“Person Identification from Actions based on Dynemes and Discriminant Learning”.
April 4-5, 2013, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Paper presentation at IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). Prof.
Pitas presented the results of MOBISERV: Olga Zoidi, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis
Pitas: “Exploiting the SVM constraints in NMF with application in Eating and Drinking
Activity Recognition”. September 15-18, 2013, Melbourne, Australia.
• Two presentations at European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in Morocco
(September 9-13, 2013, Marrakech). Prof. Pitas presented two papers on the results of
AUTH in MOBISERV: Olga Zoidi, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas: “Exploiting
Discriminant and SVM constraints in NMF” and Symeon Nikitidis, Anastasios Tefas and
Ioannis Pitas, “Maximum Margin Discriminant Projections for Facial Expression
Recognition”.
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3 Radio & TV coverage
2010 • During participation to the "De Beurs Domotica & Slim Wonen 2010" (the large fair of
Home Automation and Smart Homes held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands), MOBISERV
got coverage by “Omroep Brabant”, a regional broadcaster in the southern part of the
Netherlands. Our partner SMH has been interviewed and the video has been presented in
the 18:00 news and parts were used for the regional radio station as well. The video is
available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2UiFe279Fc
• MOBISERV has been presented at a local BBC TV documentary in Bristol, UK about
ageing assistive technologies.
2011 • An interview has been also given by UWE project members on BBC Radio Bristol on
26th
May 2011, concerning MOBISERV research and aims.
• December 2011: A Japanese national TV station interviewed Corien van Berlo (SMH)
about the MOBISERV project and filmed the robot. This interview has been broadcasted
on Japanese national television. See: http://youtu.be/Dhr1T1rN-ss
2012 • May 2012: MOBISERV featured on UK ITV West News, Kompaï and the MOBISERV
project were shown during a coverage of the BRL (Bristol Robotics Lab) Event.
• June 2012: Regional radio and TV in the Netherlands (Studio 040). Several interviews
with Claire Huijnen and Herjan van den Heuvel (SMH). See:
http://youtu.be/aqwWXk0567k?t=2m33s
• July 2012: MOBISERV participated in several national and regional information videos
on future living. Demonstrations and interviews by Herjan van den Heuvel and Claire
Huijnen (SMH).
2013 • January 2013: interview on Dutch national radio show about future innovations with
Claire Huijnen of Smart Homes (SMH) – http://radio.omroep.nl/f/106393/
• April 2013: interview on Dutch national TV in a show aimed at seniors with Corien van
Berlo (SMH) – www.studiomaxlive.nl/17-04-2013/aflevering-119
• September 2013: The Greek Ministry of Education produced a mini-documentary,
presenting the research work of Greek Laboratories under the project “Academic and
Scientific Excellence”. In this documentary Anastasios Tefas (AUTH) and Prof. Pitas
present their work in MOBISERV. See: www.youtube.com/watch?v=daLNEblCc2Y
Video material of MOBISERV has been used. This mini-documentary will be
broadcasted on the National Public TV and will be disseminated by the official website of
the project “Academic and Scientific Excellence” at http://excellence.minedu.gov.gr
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4 Publications – printed
4.1 Non-Scientific
2010 • March 2010: a press-release has been prepared by UWE and distributed to all interested
parties to raise awareness. The press release is available online at:
http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/UWENews/article.asp?item=1711&year=2010. This has,
subsequently, been taken by other institutions and websites such as the Institution of
Engineering and Technology in UK (http://kn.theiet.org/news/mar10/robot-help.cfm), and
Physics and technology news (www.physorg.com/news188668526.html).
• April 2010: LUT prepared and published a press release in Finnish, which is available at:
www.lut.fi/fi/lut/news/2010/sivut/20100812_mobiserv.aspx
• November 2010: Following the TV coverage by BBC, a news article appeared on their
website: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-11701986
• November 2010: An interview with Praminda Caleb Solly was published in
www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Meet-robot-help-care-old-age/article-2851940-
detail/article.html. These media exposures prompted several follow-up contacts from
public but also from other media and research channels such as
www.communitycare.co.uk and New Dynamics of Ageing research programme.
2011 • In February 2011, Maria Nani (ST) has been interviewed for the international trade title
"+Plastic Electronics" magazine, in particular for an article exploring prospects and
progress of flexible electronics and smart fabrics in healthcare and medical markets that
was published in the "Smart Fabrics and Wearable Healthcare" issue of the magazine.
This issue has been presented in the Smart Fabric 2011 (April 4-6, 2011,
www.smartfabricsconference.com). Information about MOBISERV has been also
published in the magazine's website:
www.plusplasticelectronics.com/smartfabricstextiles/smart-garments-assist-seniors-in-
advanced-robotics-project-25613.aspx
• In October 2011, an article about MOBISERV, its robot and its services appeared in a
newspaper in Japan (shown below, including a picture of Herjan van den Heuvel (SMH)
interacting with the robot). This article was picked-up by a national TV station, leading to
an interview on TV showing Corien van Berlo (SMH) and the MOBISERV robot. This
interview will be shown on Japanese national TV in December 2011.
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Figure 13: Article about MOBISERV in a Japanese newspaper.
• In May 2011, an interview with Vivian Vergouwen (Ananz) and Herjan van den Heuvel
(Smart Homes) was published in Smart Homes Magazine, a national magazine on smart
home technology and innovations, focused on technology, housing an care professionals.
Apart from the interview, the Kompaï robot was depicted on the front cover of the
magazine.
Figure 14: Smart Homes Magazine with Kompaï in the cover page.
2012 • April 2012, Extensive article and interview with Smart Homes in Dutch national
magazine “Smart Homes Magazine”.
• May 2012: Description of Mobiserv Kompaï for the “European Year for Active Ageing
and Solidarity between Generations 2012”. Article by ROBS.
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• June 2012: MOBISERV was presented in several regional newspapers in the Netherlands.
Interviews with SMH.
• October 2012: Article about care robots including MOBISERV and an interview with
Claire Huijnen (SMH) in the weekly technology magazine “Technisch Weekblad”.
Figure 15: Article and interview in Dutch “Technisch Weekblad”.
2013 • April 2013: The consortium developed and distributed a press release. This release has
been translated in 7 languages (English, French, Dutch, Italian, Greek, German, Finnish)
and has been sent to the media in all partner countries and to the European Commission.
See appendix 1 for the release in English. The article was picked up by many media, even
outside the partner countries (several Spanish websites featured articles on MOBISERV)
and even outside the EU (including North-America, Africa and South-America).
• May 2013: an article, based on our press release, appeared in the Dutch Nestor Magazine
– www.uniekbo.nl/vrije-tijd/nestor - 190.000 prints
• May 2013: an article, based on our press release, appeared in the Dutch Skipr Magazine –
www.skipr.nl – 10.000 prints
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• May 2013, an article, based on our press release, appeared in the Dutch regional
newspaper “Brabants Dagblad”:
Figure 16: Article in regional newspaper.
• May 2013, an article, based on our press release, appeared in the Dutch regional
newspaper “Eindhovens Dagblad”:
Figure 17: Article in regional newspaper.
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• July 2013, article, based on our press release in the Anna – magazine of ANNA.
Figure 18: Article and the “Anna” magazine.
• July 7, 2013: Extensive article in “Eleutheros Typos”, a Greek Sunday journal, one of the
biggest journals in Greece.
Figure 19: Article and the “Eleutheros Typos” newspaper.
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• September, 2013: Interview with Herjan van den Heuvel (SMH) and extensive article on
social service robotics and MOBISERV in particular in 13 regional Dutch newspapers,
together covering almost the whole country:
Figure 20: Article in 13 regional newspapers in the Netherlands.
4.2 Scientific
Research conducted within MOBISERV, led to the publication of a number of research
articles in related conferences and workshops:
2010 • Ermioni Marami and Anastasios Tefas, “Face Detection using Particle Swarm
Optimization and Support Vector Machines”, 6th Hellenic Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, 4-7 May, Athens, Greece, 2010.
• Ermioni Marami and Anastasios Tefas, “Using Particle Swarm Optimization for Scaling
and Rotation invariant Face Detection”, 2010 IEEE congress on Evolutionary
Computation, World Congress on Computational Intelligence, July 18-23, Barcelona,
Spain, 2010.
• Nikolaos Arvanitopoulos, Dimitrios Bouzas, Anastasios Tefas, “Subclass Error
Correcting Output Codes using Fisher's Linear Discriminant Ratio”, 20th International
Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 23-26, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.
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• Anastasios Maronidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas “Frontal view recognition
using Spectral Clustering and Subspace Learning methods”, 20th Int. Conf. on Artificial
Neural Networks, September 15-18, 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Dimitris Bolis, Anastasios Maronidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas “Improving the
Robustness of Subspace Learning Techniques for Facial Expression Recognition”, 20th
Int. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks, September 15-18, 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Maria Nani, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Sanja Dogramadzi, Christine Fear, Herjan van den
Heuvel, "MOBISERV: An Integrated Intelligent Home Environment for the Provision of
Health, Nutrition and Mobility Services to the Elderly", 4th Companion Robotics
Workshop, September 30, 2010, Brussels, Belgium.
• P. Heinilä, "Aspects of a messages-bus based communications framework in multi-modal
and multi-device environment to support independent living of elder people", 8th Finish-
Russian University Cooperation in Telecommunications (FRUCT) Conference, 9-12
November, 2010, Lappeenranta, Finland [abstract paper].
2011 • Olga Zoidi, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, "Object Tracking Based on Local
Steering Kernels for Drinking Activity Recognition", 33rd International Conference on
Information Technology Interfaces (ITI 2011), June 27-30, Cavtat/Dubrovnik, Croatia.
• Caleb-Solly, P., Flind, A. and Vargheese, J., "Cameras as cultural probes in requirements
gathering: Exploring their potential in supporting the design of assistive technology". In:
24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), June 27 -
30, 2011, Bristol, UK.
• Praminda Caleb-Solly, Sanja Dogramadzi, Christine Fear, Simon Evans, and Maria Nani,
"MOBISERV, An integrated intelligent home environment for the provision of health,
nutrition and mobility services for older adults", British Society Gerontology - 40th
Annual Conference, July 5-7, 2011, Plymouth, United Kingdom.
• Symeon Nikitidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, "Using Subclasses in Discriminant
Non-negative Subspace Learning for Facial Expression Recognition", Proceedings of
19th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2011), August 29 - September
2, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
• Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, "Person Specific Activity
Recognition using Fuzzy Distances and Discriminant Analysis", Proceedings of 19th
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2011), August 29 - September 2,
2011, Barcelona, Spain.
• Ermioni Marami, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Nutrition Assistance based on Skin
Color Segmentation and Support Vector Machines”, International Conference on Man-
Machine Interactions (ICMMI 2011), October 6-9, 2011, The Beskids, Poland.
• Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Human Centered Interfaces for Assisted Living”,
International Conference on Man-Machine Interactions (ICMMI 2011), October 6-9,
2011, The Beskids, Poland.
• Pekka Jäppinen, "Privacy and security in older adults independent living assistance
platform", 10th Finish-Russian University Cooperation in Telecommunications (FRUCT)
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Conference, November 8-11, 2011,Tampere Finland (Presentation available at:
http://fruct.org/sites/default/files/files/conference10/FRUCT-
mobiservsecurityanalysis.pdf)
• Huijnen, C., Badii, A., Heuvel, H., Caleb-Solly, P., Thiemert, D., "'Maybe it becomes a
buddy, but do not call it a robot' - Seamless Cooperation between Companion Robotics
and Smart Homes", Ambient Intelligence - Second International Joint Conference on AmI
2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 16-18, 2011 (Proceedings 2011). Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science - LNCS 7040. Heidelberg, 2011.
• Anastasios Maronidis, Dimitris Bolis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas “Improving
Subspace Learning for Facial Expression Recognition Using Person Dependent and
Geometrically Enriched Training Sets”, Neural Networks, Elsevier, vol. 24(8), pages
814-823, 2011.
• Symeon Nikitidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Recent Advances in Discriminant
Non-negative Matrix Factorization”, Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, Beijing,
China, November 28-30, 2011.
• Christina Chrysouli, Nicholas Vretos and Ioannis Pitas, “Face Clustering in videos based
on Spectral Clustering Techniques”, Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, Beijing,
China, November 28-30, 2011.
• G. Kotrotsios, J. Luprano, “The commercialization of smart fabrics: intelligent textiles”
Chapter 13 of “Wearable Monitoring Systems” Editors: Annalisa Bonfiglio, Danilo De
Rossi, ISBN: 978-1-4419-7383-2 (Print) 978-1-4419-7384-9 (Online).
• J. Krauss, O. Chételat, A. Hutter, O. Grossenbacher, J. Solà, M. Correvon ”Human vital
signs monitoring outside clinical settings“, Biomed Tech 2011 BMT, 56 (suppl. 1)
2012 • Olga Zoidi, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, "Visual Object Tracking via Gabor-based
Salient Features Extraction", 20th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO
2012), August 27-31, Bucharest, Romania.
• Olga Zoidi, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, "Visual Object Tracking based on the
Object’s Salient Features with Application in Automatic Nutrition Assistance", IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2012),
March 25-30, Kyoto, Japan.
• Iosifidis, A. and Tefas, A. and Pitas, I. "Activity based Person Identification using Fuzzy
Representation and Discriminant Learning", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics
and Security, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 530-543, 2012.
• D. Ellender, P. Caleb-Solly, S. Dogramadzi, T. Fear, “Assistive technology: a qualitative
study of older people’s needs”. Submission of paper to Age and Ageing Journal -
Assistive technology: a qualitative study of older people’s needs. November 2012.
• Nicholas Vretos, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Facial Expression Recognition
With Robust Covariance Estimation And Support Vector Machines”, IEEE International
Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Santander, Spain, September 24-
27, 2012.
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• Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, "Neural representation and
learning for multi-view human action recognition", IEEE International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks, ΙΕΕΕ World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Brisbane,
Australia, June 15-20, 2012.
• Alexandros Iosifidis, Ermioni Marami, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, "Eating and
drinking activity recognition based on discriminant analysis of fuzzy distances and
activity volumes", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing, Kyoto, Japan, March, 2012.
• Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, "Multi-view Human Action
Recognition Under Occlusion Based on Fuzzy Distances and Neural Networks”,
European Signal Processing Conference, Bucharest, Romania, August 27-31, 2012.
• Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, "Discriminant Action
Representation for View-Invariant Person Identification", International Conference on
Image Processing, Orlando, Florida, USA, September 30 - October 3, 2012.
• Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “View-invariant action
recognition based on Artificial Neural Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
& Learning Systems, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 412-424, 2012.
2013 • Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Person Identification from
Actions based on Artificial Neural Networks”, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational
Intelligence: Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management,
Singapore, April 16-19, 2013.
• Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Person Identification from
Actions based on Dynemes and Discriminant Learning”, IEEE International Workshop on
Biometrics and Forensics, Lisbon, Portugal, April 4-5, 2013
• O. Chételat, J. Krauss, J. Solà, M. Bertschi and M. Rapin, “Highly integrated multi-signal
monitoring system for cardiorespiratory system“, European Conference on eHealth and
Telemedicine in Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, Bern, June 7–8, 2013
• O. Zoidi, A. Tefas and I. Pitas, "Multiplicative Update Rules for Concurrent Non-
negative Matrix Factorization and Maximum Margin Classification". Publication in IEEE
Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 24, no. 3, 2013.
• O. Zoidi, A. Tefas and I. Pitas, "Visual Object Tracking based on Local Steering Kernels
and Colour Histograms". Publication in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for
Video Technology, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 870-882, 2013.
• O. Zoidi, A. Tefas and I. Pitas, “Exploiting Discriminant and SVM constraints in NMF”,
21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2013), September 9-13,
Marrakech, Maroc.
• O. Zoidi, A. Tefas and I. Pitas, “Exploiting the SVM Constraints in NMF with Application
in Eating and Drinking Activity Recognition”, IEEE International Conference on Image
Processing, September 15-18, Melbourne, Australia.
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• Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Multi-view Action Recognition
based on Action Volumes, Fuzzy Distances and Cluster Discriminant Analysis”, Signal
Processing, vol. 93, pp. 1445-1457, 2013.
• Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “On the optimal class
representation in Linear Discriminant Analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
and Learning Systems, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 334-353, 2013.
• Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Minimum Class Variance
Extreme Learning Machine for Human Action Recognition”, IEEE Transactions on
Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, D.O.I. 10.1109/TCSVT.2013.2269774,2013.
• Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Multidimensional Sequence
Classification based on Fuzzy Distances and Discriminant Analysis”, IEEE Transactions
on Knowledge and Data Engineering, D.O.I. 10.1109/TKDE.2012.223, 2013.
• Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Dynamic action recognition
based on Dynemes and Extreme Learning Machine”, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 34,
pp. 1890-1898, 2013.
• Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Learning sparse
representations for view-independent human action recognition based on fuzzy
distances”, Neurocomputing, vol. 121, pp. 334-353, 2012.
• Nicholas Vretos, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Using Robust Dispersion
Estimation in Support Vector Machines”, Pattern Recognition, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 3441-
3451, 2013
• Symeon Nikitidis, Anastasios Tefas and Ioannis Pitas, “Maximum Margin Discriminant
Projections for Facial Expression Recognition”, European Signal Processing Conference,
September 9-13, Marrakech, Morocco, 2013
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5 Publications – online
Due to the high amount of online publications and articles, the following sections have been
restricted to the period of January 2013 – August 2013.
5.1 In Finnish
• 15 April 2013: Talouselämä magazine about economy:
www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/nyt+tulee+robottiseuralainen++muistuttaa+juomisestakin/
a2179622
• 15 April 2013: Press release via the LUT website - www.lut.fi/web/en/news/-
/asset_publisher/lGh4SAywhcPu/content/social-robot-
%E2%80%98mobiserv%E2%80%99-keeps-older-people-independent-and-active
• 16 April 2013: 3t Magazine, targeted for engineers:
www.3t.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/teknologia/mobiserv_robotti_on_kuin_omaishoitaja
5.2 In French
• 29 April 2013: article on C-Mon-Assurance.com: www.c-mon-
assurance.com/actualites/innovations-medicales/la-robotique-assistera-les-personnes-
agees-7854
• 25 August 2013: article on Humanoids.fr: www.humanoides.fr/2013/08/25/un-robot-
compagnon-europeen-bientot-dans-nos-maisons
5.3 In Greek
• 18 June 2013: GreekInformatics.gr – www.greekinformatics.gr/ekdilwseis/imerides-
symposia/3251-imeridaneestexnologiesgiaenergogiransiauth.html
• 19 June 2013: Kerdos.gr – www.kerdos.gr/default.aspx?id=1934129&nt=103
• 20 June 2013: MadeInCreta.gr – http://bit.ly/19nSaY4
• 20 June 2013: ANAmpa.gr – www.amna.gr/articleview.php?id=35503
• 21 June 2013: NewsBeast.gr –
www.newsbeast.gr/technology/arthro/547277/koinoniko-robot-stin-upiresia-ton-
ilikiomenon/
• 21 June 2013: GalaxyNews.gr – http://galaxynews.gr/technologies/science/2866-
koinoniko-robot-stin-upiresia-ton-ilikiomenon.html
• 21 June 2013: www.e-todaynews.gr/index.php/tech/11120-koinoniko-rompot-stin-
ypiresia-ton-ilikiomenon
• 22 June 2013: PM News – www.pmnews.gr/technology-science/item/4528-mobiserv
• 2 July 2013: Agelioforos.gr –
www.agelioforos.gr/default.asp?pid=7&ct=1&artid=182440
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5.4 In Italian
• 22 April 2013: www.iniziativasrl.it/it/news/tecnologie/6785-ricerca-mobiserv-ict-e-
robotica-al-servizio-degli-anziani.html
5.5 In Dutch
• July 2012, Interview with SMH: www.zorgvoorinnoveren.nl/nieuws/642/robot-helpt-
hulpbehoevende-senioren-langer-thuis-wonen
• 11 April 213: Article at Digitalezorg (Digital Care)
www.digitalezorg.nl/digitale/sociale-robot-mobiserv-houdt-oudere-mensen-
zelfstandig-en-actief/
• 12 April 2013: article at a Dutch news website ZorgVisie about care –
www.zorgvisie.nl/ICT/Nieuws/2013/4/Gebruikersstudie-naar-sociale-robot-Mobiserv-
1228468W/
• 12 April 2013: Article at HulpmiddelenWijzer:
www.hulpmiddelenwijzer.nl/home/nieuws-en-activiteiten/gebruikersstudie-naar-
sociale-robot-mobiserv#
• 15 April 2013: article at a Dutch website for managers in care –
www.zorginstellingen.nl/nieuws/sociale-robot-houdt-oudere-mensen-zelfstandig-en-
actief-15344
• 16 April 2013: Article at Robot Blog: www.robotblog.nl/zorg-
robots/gebruikersstudie-sociale-robot-mobiserv
• April 2013: Article at GastvrijeZorg (Welcoming Care)
www.gastvrijezorg.nl/nieuws/sociale-robot-houdt-oudere-mensen-zelfstandig-en-
actief-13812
5.6 In English
• 12 April 2013: article at USA based website Medical News Today -
www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258989.php
• 12 April 2013: Nigerian website –
www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/213789674/scat/e974f944f2e7496e
• 16 April 2013: press release at Cordis Wire –
http://cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.Detail&rcn=35811
• 16 April 2013: Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland –
www.cardi.ie/news/socialrobot%E2%80%98mobiserv%E2%80%99keepsolderpeople
independentandactive
• 18 April 2013: article at an American consumer-health magazine –
www.arthritisselfmanagement.com/breaking-news/european-researchers-launch-
helper-robot-trial
• 18 April 2013: Cordis News –
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&RCN=35660
• 18 April 2013: Nanowerk, site about nano-sciences, nanotechnologies and other
emerging technologies – www.nanowerk.com/news2/robotics/newsid=30080.php
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• 19 April 2013: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/mobiserv-project-
providing-robotic-carers-and-smart-systems-elderly
• 19 April 2013: Article at Phys.org – www.phys.org/news/2013-04-robotic-carers-
smart-elderly.html
• 23 April 2013: Article at Senior Housing News:
www.seniorhousingnews.com/2013/04/23/senior-care-technology-round-up-
dementia-care-pill-management-more/
• 23 April 2013: Mobiserv Project Reaches Three-Year Mark Positive Results for the
Elderly at Robotics Trends – on Robotics Trends:
www.roboticstrends.com/service_healthcare/article/mobiserv_project_reaches_three_
year_mark_positive_results_for_the_elderly
• 15 May 2013: article on an Australian website for carers “Exhaustion in carers
terminated” www.carersallied.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/48-
exhaustion-in-carers-terminated.html
• 14 August 2013: Feature Story on CORDIS – News network of Europe.eu:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=OFFR_TM_EN&ACTION=D&RCN=11525
• 19 August 2013: article on Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine, an international
online publication that features innovative science and technology,
www.gizmag.com/mobiserv-elderly-care-robot/28751
• 20 August 2013: article on Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence –
www.kurzweilai.net/a-personalized-robot-companion
• Ongoing - Entry in UK database for the Foundation for Assistive Technology
www.fastuk.org/research/projview.php?id=1651
5.7 In Spanish
• 22 April 2013: Madrimasd, Spanish website about the social use of science and
technology – www.madrimasd.org/blogs/envejecer-positivo/2013/04/22/771/
• 22 April 2013: Article on Spanish site www.tendencias21.net/Primeras-pruebas-con-
el-robot-que-cuida-a-las-personas-mayores_a17338.html
• 30 April 2013: Providing robotic carers and smart systems for the elderly at
Laboratoria.net – www.laboratoria.net/en/news/17516.html
• 7 May 2013: Article “Europe works on a robot caretaker” on Entrymayores.es:
www.entremayores.es/spa/internacional.asp?var2=Internacional&nar2=39&nar3=146
66&nar5=1
• 9 May 2013: Article on Chilean site: “Robot recordará comer beber y tomar
remedios” on Amanoz.cl: www.amanoz.cl/?p=1748
Figure 21: On the front-page of www.amanoz.cl
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6 Future events
Although MOBISERV will officially end on August 31st of 2013, dissemination of results
will not be stopped. The following list shows the events and activities that have already been
planned by the consortium partners.
• 13 – 22 September 2013, the Netherlands. Short video of MOBISERV will be shown at
the Film By The Sea festival – www.filmbythesea.nl
• 17 – 21 September 2013, the Netherlands: Live demonstration of MOBISERV at the
national 50+ event in Utrecht – more than 100.000 citizens aged 50 and older are
expected.
• 2 – 4 October 2013, Belgium: Live demonstration and presentation of MOBISERV at the
national 60+ event in Mechelen (near Brussels) – more than 8.000 professionals working
in care are expected
• 3 October, Public Lecture at University of Bath, UK miRobot, Short video of MOBISERV
and Live demonstration of Kompaï, Open to members of the public
• 27 – 29 October 2013 Bristol, UK, Live demonstration and presentation at International
Conference on Social Robotics. Theme Companionship.
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Appendix 1: Press release – April 2013
Social robot ‘Mobiserv’ keeps older people independent and active
Mobiserv project starts real user trials in the UK and The Netherlands
In the past 3 years, a European team of universities, research institutes, commercial
companies and care organisations have been working on a new type of social carer: a robot
companion for older adults. Integrated together with smart garments and vision systems, this
social robot reminds them about eating, drinking and medicines, offers structure throughout
the day, and helps people to stay active by suggesting a variety of activities. The main goal of
Mobiserv is not only to keep people independent and boost their quality of life, but also to
support and empower their social carer, often the partner, in providing care.
To find out how people experience and feel about this companion in their home, researchers
of the University of the West of England in Bristol (UK), the Smart Homes institute in
Eindhoven (NL), and care organisation Ananz in Geldrop (NL) will perform extensive user
evaluation studies with the robot companion in the upcoming months, varying from usability
tests in a home lab, to full-day experience tests in a test home, to multi-day experiences in
their own homes.
Enabling Technologies
The technical partners in the team have developed cutting-edge
technologies to meet the objectives of Mobiserv. The Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki in Greece developed specific algorithms to detect eating
and drinking activities. The manufacturer of intelligent clothing Smartex
in Italy together with research institute CSEM in Switzerland developed
smart clothes for older people that monitor heart rate, respiration,
temperature, posture and physical activity. The Lappeenranta University
of Technology in Finland supervised all communication by the system
and its components and provided algorithms to secure confidential and
personal information gathered by the system. Finally, the French company
Robosoft developed the personal robots, including sophisticated
algorithms for navigation, obstacle avoidance, person detection, human-
robot interactions and the actual services.
Provided Services
These technologies have been developed to enable a set of services that was determined at the
start of the project by conducting extensive user research with end-users and their formal and
informal carers. The set of services include reminders, suggestions, and encouragements on a
physical, cognitive and social level. For example, when a person does not drink for a certain
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time, which can lead to dehydration, the robot will approach the person and encourage
him/her to drink, or even suggest a specific drink, based on the person’s preferences or needs.
The same holds for food, physical exercises, activities, and also for social contact; when a
person does not communicate with anyone for a while, the robot will suggest to make a call,
or to go out and visit someone, helpful for those at a risk of social isolation. In addition to
this, the robot keeps an eye on vital signs and sleeping patterns, and it can detect a fall. In
case of an emergency, it will automatically contact a carer. The robot works in partnership
with the person, offering nutrition/activity/safety coaching, and it is expected that it will
contribute to a healthier and more enjoyable life, not only for the end user, but also for the
social carer.
Final User Evaluations
Currently, the Mobiserv team is focussed on
the preparations for the final user evaluation
studies. Based on the findings from user
studies in the previous years, the Mobiserv
robot and services are being improved and
fine-tuned to be useful, acceptable, and fun to
use. In the upcoming evaluation studies,
people will freely use their robot companion,
and carers will personalize and use the system
to support their beloved ones. The purpose of the evaluations is to enable end-users and
caregivers to experience what Mobiserv can do for them, to further improve Mobiserv, and to
find out how to proceed in bringing this robot and its services to market. The ultimate goal is
to enable people to support themselves, and others, in their wellbeing and independence.
The user evaluations will take place from April to June 2013, both in the UK and in The
Netherlands. In the period from June to August, the Mobiserv project and its companion
robot will be presented and demonstrated at several events throughout Europe, open to a wide
audience and press, in all seven partner countries of the project. For the latest information
about these public events and the project, or ideas to organise a demo at your premises, please
visit www.mobiserv.info.
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