PRE-ICADI PREPARATORY WORKSHOP
ON AGING, DISABILITIES AND INDEPENDENCE

26-27 June 2003

Royal Academy of Engineering

London, U.K.

Program Co-Chairs:

Sumi Helal, Universityof FLorida

Andrew Sixsmith, University of Liverpool

Attendies List and Photos

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Thursday, Jun 26, 2003

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1000� Registration. (Tea/coffee available)

1030 Opening (90 minutes)

• Welcome and Introductions (P.N.T. Wells, U. Bristol)
• International Conference Master Plan (William Mann, U Florida)
• Preparatory Workshop Purpose (Sumi Helal , U. Florida; Andrew Sixsmith , U. Liverpool)
• UK Department of Health activities (Tony Horn)
• EPSRC activities (Emily Horwood)
• NSF activities (Gilbert Devey)

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1200 Lunch

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1320-1420� Session I (60 minutes) R&D for Independent Living (Chair: Andrew Sixsmith, U. Liverpool)

• EU perspective (Gunnar Fagerberg, European Commission)
• EU Projects 1
• EU Projects 2
• UK perspective (EQUAL) (Peter Lansley, U. Reading)
• US perspective (William Mann, U Florida)

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1420-1530� Session II: Smart Home Technologies (Chair: Gilbert Devey, NSF)

• Aware Home (Irfan Essa, Georgia Tech)
• Millennium Home (Heinz Wolff, Brunel U.)
• Gloucester Home (Roger Orpwood, Bath Institute Medical Engineering)
• RERC Technology for Successful Ageing (William Mann and Sumi Helal , U Florida)

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1230 Break

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1545-1700 Session III: Smart Home Technologies cont�d. (Chair: Peter Wells, U Bristol)

• User Issues (Andrew Sixsmith, U Liverpool and Lutz Kubitschke, Empirica )
• Smart Health Tools (Alice Pentland, U Rochester)
• Creating Proactive Environments for Healthy Living (Kent Larson, MIT Media Lab)
• Smart Homes and Health Telematics (Mounir Mokhtari, INT, France)

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1700-1815 Session IV: Panel Discussion: Strategies for Future Research and Development��

Co-chairs: William Mann and Andrew Sixsmith

Panelists: Fagerberg; Lansley; Wolff; Orpwood; Devey

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1830 Reception (hosted by Huntleigh Technology)

Friday, June 27, 2003

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0800�� Tea/coffee available

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0830-1030�� Session V: eHealthcare Technologies and Devices (Chair: Alan Newell U. Dundee)

• Beyond Telemedicine (S. Warren, U. Kansas)
• Regulatory Considerations (W. Herman, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA)
• Technology Assessment / Technology Transfer (Oliver Wells)
• Context Aware Computing (E. Smailagic, CMU)
• I.T. supporting older people (Alan Newell, U. Dundee)

1030-1015� Break

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1015-12:00� Session VI: Industrial Perspectives (Chair: Vince Stanford, NIST)

• Huntleigh Technology, Bernard Wignall
• General Electric, Paul Cuddihy
• NIST, Vince Stanford
• Elite Care, (via Sumi Helal)

12:30-13:00�� Summary of Presentations (Rapporteur: Mike Vannier, U. Iowa)

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13:00�� Adjourn

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A set of notes is available from Michael Vannier, including a text file and a PPT file.