GRAGE: Green & Grey Workshop and Open Day

The Centre for Ubiquitous Computing will host the GRAGE Project Workshop and Open Day on the 13 and 14th of September 2018, at Tellus Stage, Linnanmaa Campus. The event gathers international experts from academic and non-academic institutions, in the fields of ICT, Law, Economy and Humanities, members of the project consortium and guest lecturers to discuss the challenges of the elderly living in the urban environment. The event is opened to the academic community, local institutions and the general public. Welcome!

PROGRAMME

13^th September

PART I – Open Day

10:00-10:30– Guided visit to the Ubicomp premises: DemoRoom– Lead: Paula Alavesa, PhD Researcher/Pentti Frederiksen, Laboratory Technician

10:40-11:15– Guided visit to the FabLab– Lead: Dr. Antti Mäntyniemi, Fab Lab Manager

11:15-12:15–Lunch & networking– Venue: Restaurant Foobar, Linnanmaa Campus

PART II- Workshop – Elderly living in urban settings – Tellus Stage

12:15-12:30– Introduction & Day’s Programme– Anabela Berenguer/ Mourad Oussalah, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland

12:30- 12:45– Older persons’ human rights in urban areas: current developments in European law– Laura Vagni, Associate Professor, University of Macerata, Italy

12:45- 13:00– Vertical Farms: a Sustainable Approach on Future Food Systems– Mr. Coen van Ruiten, HAS University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands

13:00-13:15-Digital Assistance and its Advantages in Self-Monitoring Healthier Diets – Aku Visuri, PhD Researcher,Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland

13:15- 13:30- Grey Smart Inventor: from concept to market, Olena Motuzenko, Associate Professor, Daryna Petlina, PhD- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine,  & Dr. M. Letizia Urbani, General Manager of Meccano SpA, Fabriano, Italy

13:30-13:45– Best practices at firm level on active ageing & green solutions– Silvia Leoni, PhD Researcher, University of Macerata, Italy

13:45- 14:00– Physiological Signal Analysis – Example Applications– Tapio Seppänen, Professor, Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu, Finland

14:00- 14:15-Complimentary coffee break & networking

Part III- Workshop –Language & ICT tools for the elderly in urban context – Tellus Stage

14:15-14:30– Urban Space and Environmental Sustainability: a Language Analysis of Dutch Elderly–Paola Monachesi, Assistant Prof., University of Utrecht, Netherlands

14:30- 14:45– ICT Tools in Nursing Homes – the CARE Project– Simon Klakegg, PhD Researcher, Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland

14:45-15:00- Big Data Mining & Deep Learning: How do Machines Perceive the Elderly– Panos Kostakos, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland

15:00- 15:15– Population ageing in the Arctic and Northern Russia’s context: New methods of measuring, raising elderly’ quality of life, and research collaboration– Anastasia Emelyanova, Postdoctoral Researcher, Thule Institute, University of Oulu, Finland

15:15- 15:30 – Q&As, general discussion & conclusion – Lead: Mourad Oussalah, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland

14^th September

PART IV- Workshop- GRAGE project – Tellus Frost Club

10:00 – 10:30– Funding opportunities for joint projects– the GRAGE consortium– Petri Mononen, Research Funding Specialist, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland

10:30-10:50– Tourism for the elderly– Mourad Oussalah, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland

10:50-11:10– Information and communication technology as a tool for improving business and social activity of the elderly in Ukraine– Oleksii Sinitsyn, Deputy Chairman of the Board for International Cooperation of the NGO “Philosophy of the Heart”, Ukraine  & Olena Motuzenko, Associate Professor, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine 

11:10- 11:30 – On the use of URLs and hashtags in age prediction of Twitter users- Abhinay Pandya, PhD Researcher, Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland

11:30-13:30– Round table discussion: Paola Monachesi, Olena Motuzenko, Oleksii Sinitsyn, Coen van Ruiten, Anastasia Emelyanova, Mourad Oussalah, Abhinay Pandya, Panos Kostakos;

13:30 – Closing of Official Programme

Contact persons: Anabela Berenguer (anabela.berenguer@oulu.fi); Mourad Oussalah (mourad.oussalah@oulu.fi)

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