ASSISTANT Kickoff Minutes

DAY 1 :

Partners presentation

WP5 Management  work package : how the structure is going to work? Contract start date: 1 June 2012.

End: 31 May 2015. Documents will be send to our national agencies.

Coordinator will be the interface between AAL and partners, annual and financial report, organizing mid-term reviews… Stefan is the technical leader, arbiter of disagreements, wandering. Technical committees every 6 months.

Executive board meet twice a year = Tecnalia, TTR and Andago.

WP leaders responsible for all the deliverables and productions in a WP.

Consortium meeting, general assembly every 6 months.
Executive board meetings monthly phone conference.
Steering group: one representative of each partner, physically every 6 months, by phone every 3 months.

Decision making and problem handling: DoW, project leader, technical leader, WP leader.

Deliverables: avoid last minutes for deliverables, template for creation, use of shared file space, non-text deliverables, internal review before submission.

Project handbook: website, files repository, teleconferences, template for deliverables, report for AAL, presentation, mailing list.
Dissemination:  WP4, papers, presentations at events, website, standardization activities. Don’t forget social media.

DoW: initial version on the BSCW. We need to submit a final version to AAL, some changes should be necessary as a result of this meeting.

At the end of that meeting, we should define a list of our next meetings (schedule) = it will probably happen in Paris in December 2012.

Don’t forget about the “ticketing”, elderly people are preoccupied by payment issue: an idea is that the system will provide some information about the fare and where to buy a ticket. What about tickets directly on the phone?

Target: seniors, blind people (impossible to make field trials sp we will focus on seniors), people with cognitive impairment (but still autonomous). Oldsters, visitors, cognitively challenged, motoricly challenged and sensory challenged.  New users particularly those travelling to unknown places.
Other stakeholders: bus systems, legal system, marketplace, family…

One application for each city. Who will own the application? An online application for trip planning and guides on Smartphone for multi step journeys.

On Smartphone: size of buttons. The design has to be truly accessible. Supporting having lost the route = back on track. Last kilometer question. The hardest will be transnational system.

At the end of the route: info provided to help the end user to get from the last transit stop to the final destination. Walking maps? How to deal with big buildings and complexes? 

Geographic span: rural (how rural? Need boundary?), urban (underground? Net problem! GPS canyons).

How to deal with conflicting information? => write scenarios with our personal experience

The system identifies the vehicle to board and signals to the users its arrival, informs the user of when to exit.

The system will be ready for the market within two years (2017).

Presentation of WP1 and WP2 work packages

DAY 2 :

 

Presentation of other packages WPs:

WP3 , WP4

Next meeting in Paris in December 2012