Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

VASSIST: Voice Controlled Assistive Care and Communication Services for the Home


Description

VASSIST aims at providing specific voice
controlled Home Care and Communication
Services for two target groups of
older persons: Seniors suffering from
chronic diseases and/or suffering from
(fine) motor skill impairments.
The goal of VASSIST is to provide specific
voice controlled Home Care and Communication
Services for older persons.
The result of VASSIST are multilingual
natural voice interfaces for a specific set
of communication and tele-medicine
services along with specific hard and
software developments to provide these
services in the older users’ home. In this
way VASSIST will provide an alternative
and easy access to existing communication
and tele-medical solutions for senior
persons. VASSIST will reduce costs related
to the service delivery by using existing
on-site hardware and infrastructure
such as TV, Smart Phone and PC.

Project website

http://vassist.tech-experience.at/


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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
  • Western Europe and North America

Status

Completed

Start date

December 2011

End date

2014


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Older persons
  • People with disabilities

WSIS values promotion

VASSIST aims at providing specific voice controlled Home Care and Communication Services for two target groups of older persons: Seniors suffering from chronic diseases and/or suffering from (fine) motor skill impairments. The goal of VASSIST is to provide specific voice controlled Home Care and Communication Services for older persons


Entity name

AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Entity country—type

Austria Private Sector

Entity website

https://www.ait.ac.at

Partners

AAL Programme, CURE - Center for Usability Research and Engineering (CURE), Institut-Télécom (IT), Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique (ESIEE), Integrazioni e Sistemi SpA (I&S), Shankaa, ASICA Électronique Industrielle, PL.O.T EDV-Planungs- und HandelsGesmbH (PLOT), Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), EURAG Austria