2nd Int. Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Ambient Assistance and H...

“Health, demographic change and wellbeing” is not only a designated “Grand Challenge” of the European Union but an upcoming challenge of the entire world. Endeavours are made in various directions to meet that challenge, amongst which the fields of “Active and Assisted Living (AAL)” and “Healthy Ageing (HA)” are rather prominent.

The design of innovative and beneficial IT solutions in these domains recommends "thinking out of the box", i.e. looking beyond current ways of living in the older age. For innovation to work, it is also important to get various stakeholders of future assistance systems involved in time, i.e. to offer them comprehensible representations of possible solutions that enable them to express their concerns and demands. Therefore, the realization of advanced systems to support “Active and Assisted Living (AAL)” and “Healthy Ageing (HA)” recommends powerful abstractions, or, in other words, the design and use of conceptual models.

Although most projects dealing with AAL and HA use models in some way, only few systematic approaches to modeling methods for these fields have been reported so far. Therefore, the workshop “Conceptual Modeling for Ambient Assistance and Healthy Ageing” was designed and firstly held at ER2015 to reveal the existing and potential contributions, which can be made by the modeling community to AAL and HA. A particular emphasis was on Conceptual Modeling within the context of designing and developing systems for assisting humans in their everyday live and in healthy ageing.

A discussion at the end of the 2015 AHA instance came to the clear conviction of all participants that this had been a successful begin and should be continued in the next years as the model focused view of AHA will become in-creasing importance.

 The workshop focuses on Conceptual Modeling as a means for mastering the challenges that emerge with attempts to design and develop systems for assisting humans in their everyday live and in healthy ageing.