ICOST 2011

9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics

20-22 June 2011, Montréal, Canada.

Coorganized by

Summer School

Call for participation

We still have a few places left for students who wish to join the summer school.

June 16-22, 2011:
ICOST Summer School

Summer School Program

ICOST 2011 summer school program features technical workshops and lectures linked to ICOST conference topics. It offers an overview of basic and advanced topics in theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on theoretical and practical advancements that have significant contributions in smart homes, health telematics, and other assistive technologies.

The ICOST summer school will run for seven days. The program structure reinforces the links with the ICOST Conference, where participants will be engaged for 7 days in a school process. The four first days are dedicated to specific lectures on aging needs, assistive technology, Human Machine Interaction, design and market perspectives. The following two and half days will be dedicated to the ICOST conference presentations. At the end, all the activities are consolidated to produce a final team project.

The innovative creativity method of the ALCATEL-LUECNT BELL LABS will be used to help participants integrating multiple domains and solve a health aging issue by assistive technology. 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.

	Thursday June 16 (Room L1-3625)	Friday June 17 (Room L1-3625)	Saturday June 18 (Room L1-7840)	Sunday June 19 (Room L1-3640)	Monday June 20 ETS	Tuesday June 21 ETS	Wednesday June 22 ETS
9:00-12:00	Summer School Introduction Interdisciplinary rules in Smart Home for aging	Aging needs (S1)	Human Factors in design (S2)	Business perspective (S4)	ICOST Conference	ICOST Conference	ICOST Conference
9:00-12:00	Welcome Creativity process	Human factors in design (S2)	Technology approach: Smart home (S3)	Business perspective (S4)	ICOST Conference	ICOST Conference	ICOST Conference
	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13:30-17:00	Aging health (S1)	Creativity session: -Project Team Workshop -Developing the health issue	Technology approach: Smart home (S3)	Creativity session: -Project Team Workshop -Developing the ergonomic approach -Transfer the team solution to the society - First solution	ICOST Conference	ICOST Conference	Creativity session: -Project Team Workshop - Integration of the conference topics to the first solution in team - eam oral presentation

Summer school evaluation

The students will be registered in a four credits program of the University of Sherbrooke and will be evaluated among three specific activities.

A report to be submitted on the forth day of the summer school.
Oral presentation of the team solution in day 7 (end of ICOST).
A report to be submitted within one week following the summer school.

Courses:

IFT 860 : Santé des personnes âgées fragiles à domicile / Health of frail elderly people at home (1 credit)
IFT 861 : Habitats intelligents pour maintien à domicile / Smart habitats for independent living (2 credits)
IFT 862 : Habitats intelligents pour la santé / Smart habitats for healthcare (1 credit)

NOTE:

In general, Four North American credits are equal to 8 European credits. Students are encouraged to contact their universities for equivalencies.