Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

PAELIFE: Personal Assistant to Enhance the Social Life of the Seniors


Description

PAELIFE, focus on individuals who are
recently retired, who are used to some
level of technology usage and who want
to keep themselves active, independent,
productive and socially engaged. PAELIFE
is a proposal for a Personal Life
Assistant (PLA), a virtual presence who
supports social communication, learning/teaching
and entertainment and new
solution of multimodal (speech, touch,
gesture, biometric) Human Computer
Interaction, making the elderly relationship
with computers and technology
easier and more natural.
PAELIFE brings improved communication
capabilities and productivity to
these citizens, enhancing social interaction,
providing more autonomy, better
sense of control, safety and self-esteem,
allowing active ageing and improving
quality of life.

Project website

https://paelife.wordpress.com/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • AL C7. E-health 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being
  • Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Eastern Europe
  • Western Europe and North America

Status

Completed

Start date

April 2010

End date

2012


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Older persons

WSIS values promotion

PAELIFE, focus on individuals who are recently retired, who are used to some level of technology usage and who want to keep themselves active, independent, productive and socially engaged. PAELIFE is a proposal for a Personal Life Assistant (PLA), a virtual presence who supports social communication, learning/teaching and entertainment and new solution of multimodal (speech, touch, gesture, biometric) Human Computer Interaction, making the elderly relationship with computers and technology easier and more natural.


Entity name

(Coordinator) MSFT – Software para Microcomputadores, LDA (Microsoft Portugal)

Entity country—type

Portugal Private Sector

Entity website

https://www.microsoft.com

Partners

AAL Programme, INESC ID, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, BME, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, The Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research, SSW, Knowledge Society Association, Genitech, University of Technology of Troyes, University de Aveiro