CAPSIL Overview

From Capsil Wiki

CAPSIL is an EU "Support Action" funded within the specific programme "Cooperation" and the research theme "ICT" of the 7th European Framework Programme.

Our goals are to develop a detailed CAPSIL Roadmap for EU research to achieve effective and sustainable solutions to independent living. This involves a baseline analysis of EU, USA and Japan followed by a period of visioning, gap analysis and documenting implementation details. We also aim to produce this CAPSIL Wiki of knowledge blocks. This Wiki provides a support for aging research on the diverse problems and solutions available. Finally, we would like to use our Wiki and roadmap to help policy makers in the EU, US and Japan coordinate research agendas and funding efforts.

This website represents a catalogue of solutions in the form of WiKi entries (CAPSILs) which describe interoperable ICT solutions to clinical requirements for Independant Living that can then be deployed throughout the EU, US, and Japan for verification of the systems and testing of clinical hypothesis of new and proposed research programmes. Each CAPSIL can act as an instructive entry point for a range of interested parties in independent living research, development and deployment. For more details on the CAPSIL project visit our website or CAPSIL Overview.

These CAPSILs will enable clinicians and other care-givers to get the information they need to quickly and easily test solutions for prolonging independent living within the many and various heterogeneous communities throughout the EU, the US, and Japan. The CAPSIL’s will be moderated by an international collection of both ICT and clinical researchers initially composed of members of the CAPSIL team, but eventually expanding well beyond.

Contents 1 CAPSIL Meetings 2 CAPSIL Members 3 CAPSIL Links 4 CAPSIL Executive Summary

CAPSIL Meetings

In practice along with use of internal collaboration tools, phones calls and exchanges we have many CAPSIL meetings. The CAPSIL meetings are to coordinate the efforts within the CAPSIL team, to solicit input from experts outside CAPSIL, and to disseminate this information throughout the community of researchers. The management workpackage (CAPSIL_MGMT WP1) will organize the four CAPSIL workshops, three of which will be held alongside already existing international conferences.

The meetings include:

1. CAPSIL Meeting London, UK - April 10th 2008
2. CAPSIL Meeting Tokyo, Japan - July 30th - 31st 2008
3. CAPSIL Meeting EU Lyon - Nov 25th - 27th 2008
4. CAPSIL Meeting US Washington DC - March 18th - 20th 2009
5. CAPSIL Meeting other

CAPSIL Members

1. (Coordinator) University College, Dublin UCD Republic of Ireland
2. Intel Performance Learning Solutions Limited
3. Queens University, Belfast QUB United Kingdom
4. University of Genova UGDIST Ialty
5. Oregon Health Sciences University OHSU USA
6. Waseda University, Tokyo WUT Japan
7. Imperial College, London ICL United Kingdom
8. Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Corporation, Harvard Medical School, USA

CAPSIL Links

• [Website http://www.capsil.org]

CAPSIL Executive Summary

The aging of society is the single most important aspect of health care in the 21st century. Many intriguing ICT solutions are being developed within the EU, USA, and Japan for helping older people remain independent longer. However, these solutions tend to be fragmented and heterogeneous. The CAPSIL Coordinating Support Action (CSA) team is a strategic international coalition of University and Industrial partners that already have extensive teams developing hardware/software/knowledge solutions to independent living based on user requirements. All partners of CAPSIL are already members of regional and national centres on aging engaged in the process of helping to establish public policy and international standards. This support action is to launch initiatives, coordinated and disseminated by a series of workshops in the US, EU, and Japan (two per year for two years), with three fundamental goals:

• to develop a detailed CAPSIL Roadmap for EU research to achieve effective and sustainable solutions to independent living based on an in-depth analysis of independent living requirements and the ICT scenarios developed or under development in the EU, as well as the US and Japan (societies where the aging of the population are currently on par or exceeding the challenges that will be found within the EU).

• to support aging research by proposing procedures to incorporate all of these diverse solutions into WiKi entries (CAPSIL WiKi). These CAPSILs will enable researchers and the ICT industry to get the information they need to quickly and easily test solutions for prolonging independent living within the many and various heterogeneous communities. Only with this knowledge will the relevance and efficacy of technological solutions be maintained and be empowered with the capability to be adapted for various cultures.

• to use the CAPSIL Roadmap and the CAPSIL Workshops to help policy makers in the US and Japan coordinate research agendas and funding efforts across the three continents.