ICOST 2011

9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics

20-22 June 2011, Montréal, Canada.

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ICOST Summer School offers an overview of basic and advanced topics in theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences related to the theoretical and practical advancements that have significant contributions in smart homes, health telematics and other assistive technologies.

ICOST Summer School provides participants with a unique, high-quality, and intensive period of study. It is ideally suited for students currently pursuing, or intending to pursue, research in smart homes, health telematics, and other assistive technologies. The focus of the ICOST 2011 summer school is as follows: 

• Provide a multidisciplinary experience in a multidisciplinary team environment integrating clinical, social, technological, ergonomic and market perspectives to solve a health aging issue.
• Integrate the multiple domains involved in the provision of assistive solutions with new technology.
• Solve a health aging issue through the use of assistive technology thanks to a multidisciplinary approach.

IT & health professionals who are in the field of smart homes, health telematics, and other assistive technologies will find that ICOST summer school provides relevant knowledge and exposure to modern techniques. In addition, they will benefit by direct interaction with key researchers within the field. For academics, ICOST summer school is an excellent opportunity to help getting started in multidisciplinary research on novel topics related to smart homes, health telematics, and other assistive technologies.

ICOST summer school & ICOST conference provide an ideal forum for networking and discussions. Academics will also benefit from interaction with IT & health professionals, which will lead to a deeper understanding of real life problems. Finally, developers of such technologies and researchers in the field will also get valuable feedback for seniors of the field.

The summer school promotes interdisciplinary research by offering to the students to participate in a team project in order to set up a framework to solve a health problematic using assistive technology. During the seven days students will apply the theoretical topics during a concrete solving problem process where multidisciplinary exchanges will be encouraged.

Multidisciplinary would have a better shaping and boost its promising strengths when guided through a creativity lane. The innovative creativity method of the ALCATEL-LUCENT BELL LABS (coached by Marc Godon and Mohamed Ali Feki) will be used to help participants integrating multiple domains and solve a health aging issue by assistive technology.
The creativity process, perceived as a transversal activity to all other disciplines, aims at breaking common patterns of thought by deploying a mindful set of attitudes and aptitudes in order to find new opportunities or to find new views to address challenging problems. Several creativity techniques and templates will be investigated for inspiration, divergence, exploration and convergence creativity stages.
All along the summer school seven days the students are brought together in multidisciplinary teams coached by a coordinator in order to raise an aging issue and to solve it according to a multidisciplinary approach. Finally, at the end of the summer school (day seven) the students will present their solution to the selected health aging issue.

ICOST summer school will be held at the Longueuil Campus of the University of Sherbrooke (Longueuil-Montreal) four days before the conference. The ICOST 2011 Conference will take place at the Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Montreal, Canada from 20-22 June 2011.

This award is given to 1 or 2 best project (s) in the ICOST 2011 Summer School based on the technical quality, novelty, and importance to the field, and quality of the project presentation.