*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Innovation in trustworthy video-based solutions for Active and Assisted Living (AAL) The visuAAL team wishes you a Merry Christmas and success in the New Year. Vienna hosted our Skills School on “Preparing for the labour market” and the 3rd visuAAL Doctoral Seminar Two major training events aimed at supporting and advancing the training of our researchers in the visuAAL project took place at the Technische Universität Wien, Austria, during the week of November 27 to December 1, 2023: the 3rd Doctoral Seminar, which focused on sharing and testing the progress of the ESRs, and the Skills School, designed to prepare researchers for the labour market. Read more Wiktor Mucha at Meta California, USA Our researcher Wiktor Mucha, travelled to California from 6-8 December to share knowledge and experience on contextual AI and egocentric vision with 20 other researchers invited to participate in Meta's Personal Aria and Digital Data Timeline Workshop, held at Meta Reality Labs. The meeting of participants from all corners of the globe with the Meta Aria team led to fascinating debates and discussions on contextual AI and egocentric vision, which are investigated in the framework of our project. Stay at the KITE Research Institute University of Toronto, Canada Our researcher Irene Ballester participated in two interesting projects that have allowed her to make significant contributions to her research on AI for dementia care during her stay at the KITE Research Institute of the University of Toronto in Canada. One, together with Dr. Babak Taati, on the "Evaluation of Motion Encoders for Gait Analysis for Parkinsonism Score Prediction from Motion Capture Data" and another one on "False Positive Reduction in Detection of Agitation Behaviours in People with Dementia", with Dr. Shehroz Khan's team, both guided by Prof. Alex Mihailidis. Our researcher Tamara Mujirishvili presented the advances of her study on "Understanding User Needs, Persona Scenarios for Privacy-Preserving Visual System Development" at the Gerontechnology Symposium organised by the Research Group on Ambient Intelligence for Active and Healthy Ageing last November at the University of Alicante. In it, she explained the motivations and reluctance of users to use video cameras in their daily lives. Maksymilian Kuźmicz presented his work "They should know: interest in being informed and possible conflicts. The case of active and assisted living" during the Nordic Conference on Law and Informatics at the University of Lapland. If interested, you can watch it here. In his latest paper he provides an overview of the complexities of balancing in the AAL context, with pros and cons, addressing absolute values, methodology and alternative approaches. Read more Our researcher Natalie Tham presented at the European Public Health Conference (EPH2023) her latest work on how the experience of the future self influences AAL acceptance decisions, entitled "Future-self vividness influences the acceptance of camera-based active and assisted living technologies", together with Prof Anne-Marie Brady and Dr. John Dinsmore. Publications Wiktoria Wilkowska, Sophia Otten, Caterina Maidhof, and Martina Ziefle published a study on trust and privacy in the acceptance of health-related ambient technologies in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Their work explores the key factors influencing the adoption of these technologies. Read more At the International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, Wiktor Mucha and Martin Kampel shared their recent findings on "Hands, Objects, Action! Egocentric 2D Hand-Based Action Recognition." Their study explores cutting-edge approaches to decipher human-computer interactions involving hands and objects, offering fresh perspectives on egocentric 2D hand-based action recognition. Read more Kooshan Hashemifard, Pau Climent-Perez, Francisco Florez-Revuelta recently contributed to the Multimedia Tools and Applications journal with their work on "Weakly supervised human skin segmentation using guidance attention mechanisms", which introduces innovative guidance attention mechanisms for weakly supervised human skin segmentation. Read more Maksymilian M. Kuźmicz presented an innovative concept on "Balance of interests in the context of active assisted living" in the Digital Society journal. His work provides valuable insights to promote balance in the field of active assisted living, contributing to the discourse on the digital society. Read more In the future Our next event Careers Day in Dublin The visuAAL project organises a Careers Day at Trinity College Dublin, with the participation of expert trainers from the most prestigious companies related to the lines of research of our doctoral students. FEBRUARY 16 visuAAL is an Innovative Training Network that brings together 5 beneficiaries and 14 partner organizations from Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The aim of visuAAL is to bridge the knowledge gap between users’ requirements and the appropriate and secure use of video-based AAL technologies to deliver effective and supportive care to older adults managing their health and wellbeing This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 861091. LinkedIn FOLLOW ON X VISIT OUR PAGE