Project Leader(s): Simon Edwards, Dr Yvonne Huebner
Sponsors: European Union (FP6)
Partners: The OASIS Consortium is composed of 30 Partners from 10 countries (Belgium, China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Romania, Spain, and United Kingdom). Large industries (7), SMEs (6), Universities (6), Research Centres (6), Non-Profit Organisations (3), Public Organisation (1) and Healthcare Centre (1) are all represented
External Website: http://www.oasis-project.eu/
Start/end dates: Jan 2008 – Jan 2012
Contact: simon.edwards@ncl.ac.uk
OASIS was an ‘integrated’ project with the aim to improve the quality and enhance the usability of services for all daily activities of older people. More specifically, OASIS made use of ICT and other key technologies to provide holistic services to older people, supporting their physical and psychological independence, stimulating their social or psychological engagement and fostering their emotional well-being.
OASIS addressed key areas of activity, encompassing independent living and socialising, autonomous mobility, and flexible work-ability. The project featured 10 applications: transport information services, route guidance, personal mobility, smart workplaces, activity coach, nutritional advisor, health monitoring, brain and skills trainer, environmental control, and social communities platform. Fundamental to OASIS was to deliver these 10 applications in an integrated way on one platform base on a specially designed ontological framework. The applications and integrated OASIS system and services were tested at pilot sites in: Newcastle, Athens/Thessaloniki, Plovdiv, Bucharest, Milan/Florence, Kaiserslautern/Stuttgart.
Edwards S, Hubner Y. Seamless and integrated trip planning for older people: findings from the OASIS project. In: ITS World Congress. 2012, Vienna, Austria.