Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Study Session TC 100 AGS Meeting Dallas, 15 May 2012 Ulrike Haltrich IEC TC100 AAL Study Session1

IEC TC100 AAL Study Session2 Objectives and Strategy of TC 100 Two major objectives of TC 100 standardization are: to enrich human life with entertainment provided by audio, video and multimedia in home and networked environment; and to contribute to society by pursuing energy efficiency and by addressing the options for accessibility in the use of audio, video and multimedia equipment.

3 Accessibility TC 100 recognizes accessibility as one of AAL topics In 2007, TC 100/AGS recognized the need of investigation for accessibility standardization and established a Stage 0 project to produce a Technical Report (published in 2010） IEC TR 62678: Audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment activities and considerations related to accessibility and usability - Downloadable free of charge from IEC Web store TC 100 is developing a “text-to-speech” standard IEC 62731: Text-to-Speech Functionality for Television - General requirements (CDV stage, 18 May 2012) IEC TC100 AAL Study Session

4 TC 100 consideration for AAL TC 100/AGS is discussing AAL as one of new themes for the future 3DTV AAL (Ambient Assisted Living） Liaison with European Blind Union (EBU) Formed SG 5 Task Group in AGS Smart Grid and energy efficiency, DC distribution EV and multimedia IEC TC100 AAL Study Session

5 TC 100 AAL Team Members: Kate Grant, Shuichi Matsumura, Guido Gybels (European Blind Union), Ulrike Haltrich AAL introduction: AGS Madrid, 26 April st AAL study session: AGS Melbourne, 25 Oct (with European Blind Union) IEC TC100 AAL Study Session

6 AAL Challenge Develop systems, devices and interfaces that older people can use comfortably, intuitively and independently in their homes Not to feel being watched Monitor people's health, keep their homes secure and help them stay fit and connected with family and friends Overcome barriers to the acceptance and usability of AAL systems through innovative user-centric design and accessibility needs of elderly and disabled people IEC TC100 AAL Study Session

7 Barriers to Accessible Solutions IEC TC100 AAL Study Session Source: COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT “Towards an accessible information society” Status and challenges of e-accessibility in Europe Dec. 2008

8 Proposed Way Forward for TC100 Define use case for standardisation  Example: Barriers to Smart TV take up Use cases are the basis for further development of standards in the following areas –Terminology –Technical requirements –Interoperability –Standard Gap Analysis IEC TC100 AAL Study Session

9 Use Case: Smart TV (1) (Guido Gybels, EBU) Barrier to current Smart TV uptake is the home networking and UI usability For example, even though about 25% of UK households now have a Smart TV with an iPlayer in it compared to about 11% of households who have iPlayers on a tablet, the consumption of BBC content through the tablet version is 4 times as high as on a Smart TV This indicated that many people don't actually connect their smart TVs to a network. There is scope for both use case and guidelines work to define the requirements and functionality for easy home networking - setting up and using a device. The complexity of IP home network setup is quite a barrier for many people. Because quite a lot of AAL activities focus on medical/well-being and monitoring, there must be scope for the role of Smart TVs and definition of a common framework and an application environment to deliver e.g. medical services via a return path of a connected TV and other consumer equipment. IEC TC100 AAL Study Session

10 Use Case: Smart TV (2) (Guido Gybels, EBU) The external connectivity of Smart TVs offers a great opportunity to deliver external accessibility solutions by means of applications running on tablets and the like and allowing for instance a blind user to operate their TV through a TTS based smartphone or tablet app, but also elderly people with diminished sight and perhaps dexterity problems to control their TV with a more accesible remote control app on a tablet. You could also deliver additional content. Manufacturers already have some remote apps but these aren't designed for accessibility and because there is no agreed standard for control in this way that external access technologies could use, there is an interoperability problem for such applications as well as a problem of interfaces/functionality. For instance, it is no good to have an external control API that, say, an application for blind people could use to offer an external speaking solution if the API has no function to turn on/off the AD. IEC TC100 AAL Study Session

11 Use Case Process IEC TC100 AAL Study Session Use Case Proposals from: Projects NCs TC Associations Companies Use Case Collection Comments Harmonization Detailling Generic Use Cases Standardisati on Repository Reference Architecture Analysis for Standards Gaps Revisions Mapping Source: SGCG Smart Grid SG – WG Sustainable Processes, CEN – CENELEC – ETSI 2011 Ideas/Requirements from TC100 Modifications by SMB SG5 Use Case Methodoloy

12 Proposed Next Steps Further develop use case Focus on user interface and usability standards development Deliver use case to SMB SG5 before their next meeting in Sept IEC TC100 AAL Study Session

13 Thanks IEC TC100 AAL Study Session