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Vicomtech (www.vicomtech.org) is a research centre located in San Sebastián (Spain), founded in 2001 by the INI-GraphicsNet Foundation and the Basque Television, Radio and Broadcasting group EiTB, and constituted at present by 16 partners. Vicomtech has about 60 applied investigation projects per year with local, national and European industry partners and administrations, and around 85 researchers. Vicomtech’s main research lines lay in the fields of multimedia content, computer graphics and interaction technologies which Vicomtech applies in a variety of Applications for Independent Living. Its research is focused on 5 main areas: eHealth and Biomedical Applications, Industrial Applications, Digital TV and Multimedia Services, eTourism and Cultural Heritage and 3D Animation, Interactive Environments and HCI.
Vicomtech has previously been involved among others, in the following AAL related European projects:
I2HOME (IST-2005-033502): The development of a new series of industry standards (ISO/IEC 24752) for interfacing networked appliances by means of a Universal Remote Console (URC). It uses an architecture that incorporates a Universal Control Hub (UCH) as core component, which provides and manages the communication to networked (off-the-shelf) home appliances and consumer electronics devices through industry standard networking protocols.
VITAL (IST-2006-030600): Its main objective is to develop a new services platform with the aim to significantly increase the quality of life of the average elderly user. The new platform departs from traditional assistance schemes in the sense that it is not only oriented to satisfying day to day subsistence needs but it considers also other important demands that has deserved little attention up to now, such as the need for: information, inter-personal communications, entertainment and self-education.
SOPRANO (IST-2006-045212): The development of a reference platform of contextually aware smart services with intuitive natural interfaces geared at enabling the elderly to live independently.