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Assistive technology may support people in staying longer independent and improving the quality of life inside and outside of their homes. However, bringing all necessary aspects together to finally bring a product successfully to the market is challenging, as many researchers in the field have experienced over the last years. It means to tackle the technical issues arising, very closely study the potential customers getting to know their needs, their barriers of acceptance and knowing how to creating value for them and to eventually market, sell and ship the final product to them. We believe that only a joint effort of an interdisciplinary team involving technology, human sciences and business partners will have a chance of success. The following pages document four successful and promising AAL projects and their teams, results and experiences on the way to get there.
The original version of this book was revised: Chapter 2 has been updated with the co-author “Aliaksei Andrushevich”. The erratum to this chapter is available at 10.1007/978-3-319-42890-1_12
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The four projects Confidence, Dalia, iWalkActive and RelaxedCare were co-funded by the AAL Joint Programme and the following National Authorities and R&D programs in Switzerland (SERI), Austria (bmvit, FFG, Programm benefit), Slovenia (MIZS), Spain (National Institute of Health Carlos III, and Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo (MINETUR)), Belgium (IWT), NL (ZonMw), Rumänien (UEFISCDI), Schweden (VINNOVA).
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Biallas, M. et al. (2017). Living Safely and Actively in and Around the Home: Four Applied Examples from Avatars and Ambient Cubes to Active Walkers. In: Kollak, I. (eds) Safe at Home with Assistive Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42890-1_2
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