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The universAAL initiative aims at fulfilling EU objectives to promote open platforms in the Ambient Assisted Living domain by: (1) producing a platform providing the necessary technical support; (2) carrying out support activities promoting widespread acceptance and adoption of the platform. Coordinated exploitation models to ensure the sustainability of project results are being developed by a partnership of committed partners in order to deliver the evidence of usefulness, usability, and reliability of the universAAL platform while assuring its maintenance, thus making universAAL a unique candidate for re-use under real-life conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

m-Health services are increasing its presence in our lives due to the high penetration of new smartphone devices. This new scenario proposes new challenges in terms of information accessibility that require new paradigms which enable the new applications to access the data in a continuous and ubiquitous way, ensuring the privacy required depending on the kind of data accessed. This paper proposes an architecture based on cloud computing paradigms in order to empower new m-Health applications to enrich their results by providing secure access to user data.

The design of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) products is a very demanding challenge. AAL products creation is a complex iterative process which must accomplish exhaustive prerequisites about accessibility and usability. In this process the early detection of errors is crucial to create cost-effective systems. Computer-assisted tools can suppose a vital help to usability designers in order to avoid design errors. Specifically computer simulation of products in AAL environments can be used in all the design phases to support the validation. In this paper, a computer simulation tool for supporting usability designers in the creation of innovative AAL products is presented. This application will benefit their work saving time and improving the final system functionality.

Innovative concepts for prevention and disease management of cardio-vascular disease are being developed in the framework of MyHeart project. After a successful first phase where 16 different concepts were tested, four of them where selected on the basis of user acceptance, technical feasibility and foreseen impact. The present paper gives an overview of such product-concepts that are being implemented and will be extensively tested in the next phase of the project.

Physical inactivity is one of the risk factors of Coronary heart disease. Physical activity protects against the development of CVD and also favorably modifies other risk factors, however a huge part of the population lead a relatively sedentary lifestyle. Virtual Trainer (VT) Concept is a technological platform for the controlled practice of physical training to achieve better cardiovascular fitness results that includes a motivational environment crated to support the long term compliance with the training program. VT consist of a technological platform, a method for the fitness condition assessment and the motivational multimedia environment. This paper describes the firsts results achieved in the project on the technological platform and the fitness condition assessment.