iCareNet

Contact Persons

Dr. Oliver Amft
Julia Seiter

Objectives

iCareNet is a Marie-Curie project funded by the European Union.
The main objective of the iCareNet is to make a decisive contribution towards context-aware systems in healthcare, wellness and assisted living (HWA) applications, leveraged through an interdisciplinary perspective ranging from sensing and sensor integration, to human-computer interaction and social factors in deploying solutions.

Context awareness has the potential to revolutionise the way people interact with information technology. Whereas conventional computers, merely interpret explicit user input, context-aware systems analyse and automatically respond upon users' behaviour. This enables electronic systems to assist users in situations in which the use of conventional computers and mobile devices is out of question.

iCareNet unites efforts of an interdisciplinary network of leading European research groups and a strong industrial participation. Researchers will receive comprehensive inter-domain training through a series of network-wide training events. iCareNet will carry out broad-spectrum bottom-up research on eight application fields across HWA continuum, fundamental technology and methodology, and convert concepts into general guidelines for system architectures and design methodologies for context-aware solutions.

Publications

available soon.

Links

Official iCareNet website