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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

MOBISERV 2/36 FP7-248434

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.



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



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



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.



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”.



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.



• 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.



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.



• 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.



• 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.



• 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.



• 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.



• 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



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.



• 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



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



• 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.:



“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”.



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



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.



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.



• 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



• 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.



• 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.



• 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.



• 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)



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.



• 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.



• 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



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



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



• 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



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.



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



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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