Taking place in Lisbon from the 7th to the 9th of January, the conference will host an array of satellite events, while different exhibitors will be showcasing their products to attendees. The deadlines for paper submission are the 30th of July 2013 (Regular Papers) and the 18th of September 2013 (Position Papers).

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PHAR uses a smartphone in combination with a pico projector, external or embedded in the device, to project relevant context information of any object in a surface, just by pointing the device to the object.

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Fraunhofer AICOS’ HCI team decided to uptake this challenge and submitted a proposal to tackle the above mentioned issues. The entry, named “Aziza”, was recently announced as being within the finalists. The winner will be announced on February 26th during the GSMA Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona.

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Fraunhofer Portugal Aicos, and “Android for Developing” was highlighted in “Information Economy Report, 2012”, recently published by United Nations Conferences on Trade and Developmment – UNCTAD.

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Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS will participate in the workshop WAMS 2013 (Workshop em Aplicações Móveis em Saúde – mHealth Apps Workshop) with the project Melanoma Detection. This workshop is aimed at students, researchers, healthcare professionals and all the public interested in this theme.

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Ricardo Moutinho, researcher from Fraunhofer Portugal, is one of the 5 finalists of the World Summit Awards Mobile (WSA), considered the Oscars of the Mobile Apps, in the category of m-Inclusion and Empowerment, with the Project AlzNav, an application for Android. It consists of a system of localization and navigation, designed for senior population and people in initial state of dementia.

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Roxanne Leitão – researcher at Fraunhofer AICOS and student at the Faculty of Engineering in Porto (FEUP) – recently published her master’s thesis regarding older adults and gestural interaction on smartphones.

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AAL4ALL participate in PORTUGAL MAIOR - International Conference for Active Ageing from 5 to 9 of December of 2012. AAL4ALL project, which main goal is the mobilization of an industrial ecosystem of products and services in the scope of AAL and is specially focused on the definition of specific standards.

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The Director of Fraunhofer Portugal, Dirk Elias, was awarded with the Galileo Master 2012, assigned by European Satellite navigation Competition (ESNC). It concerns the development of an application for smartphones that uses a local positioning technology, like GPS, but for enclosed places such as stores, large buildings, underground car parkings and tunnels.

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