Zeleno izobraževanje na ljudski univerzi v Ajdovščini

Green Education – Back to the Nature je naslov projekta, v katerem razvijamo nove prakse izobraževanja za trajnostni razvoj. V začetku leta 2013 smo v sodelovanju s partnerji iz Poljske, Francije, Malte, Turčije, Italije, Velike Britanije in Španije v okviru programa Evropskih skupnosti Vseživljenjsko učenje, Razpis VŽU 2013, sektorski program Grundtvig, akcija Učna partnerstva prijavili projekt z naslovom Green Education – Back to the Nature. Prijava je bila uspešna, vendar ne z vsemi partnerji. Odpadle so namreč organizacije iz Francije in z Malte. Slovenija sodeluje v partnerstvu kot koordinatorica projekta. Partnerski sestanki so predvideni v vseh sodelujočih državah. Zaključno srečanje bo maja 2015 v Sloveniji

Face to Face Educational Program for Active Ageing

Education Peer to Peer - through personal contact - can be interpreted as a process through which well-trained and motivated facilitators educate participants of (mainly) the same age, social position or have the same ability as the latter, with the aim to further develop parti and knowledge. The emphasis is on understanding of the concept of active ageing, desires and needs of the target group in terms of acquiring new skills and improving physical and mental health. Educational program for active ageing, presented in this publication, is taking place at two levels: a) the classical method (learning in class/group) with guidelines and implementation plan of activities summarized in this publication, and b) distant educational program (virtual classroom), which will be freely available online and thus accessible to the widest number of people

Safety and Privacy Considerations for Mobile Application Design in Digital Healthcare

This paper presents a case study on security and privacy implications on the design of a mobile application in digital health, the DeStress Assistant (DeSA) app, which utilizes sensing technologies and capabilities of the Internet of Things (IoT). An analysis of the applicable legislative framework is provided and selected challenges encountered during the app design are discussed, which are related with the practical implications of provisions of the international and national legislation for software applications in general as well as medical devices and handling of sensitive data in particular. We provide insights into design choices, including different possible scenarios for classification of a mobile app as a medical device and the pertaining legal risks the app developer is faced with as a consequence of possible legal obligations, and different possibilities of specifying the intended use. Also, we propose two designs of a mechanism that enables secure sharing of the patient's health-related observations from the DeSA app with a medical professional within a treatment context. The first mechanism provides secure submission of health-related observations into a hospital information system, whereas the second mechanism enables secure short-term sharing of observations without storage

Usability Pitfalls of Diabetes mHealth Apps for the Elderly

Diabetes mellitus has high prevalence in the ageing population and is often accompanied by other comorbidities, such as Alzheimer’s disease, and general disabilities, such as poor eyesight. These comorbidities have redefined ways in which patients use mHealth apps, including diabetes apps. The latter have proven benefits for monitoring blood glucose levels and insulin tracking in the general population. In this paper, we analyse a diabetes monitoring app DeStress Assistant (DeSA), which was developed as a part of an EU project and tested in a hospital setting. Due to the increasing number of older adults, we wanted to ensure the app was suitable for that demographic. Based on a number of supervised tests, we show that the app, which was developed with the help of workshops and feedback from tech-savvy patients and clinicians, is difficult to use by elderly users. We demonstrate that with a small number of changes it is possible to raise the usability of the app in a number of categories. We summarise the lessons learned in the discussion. Our findings demonstrate that special care needs to be taken when developing mHealth apps for the elderly population

Application-Driven OAM Framework for Heterogeneous IoT Environments

We present a novel approach for providing a comprehensive operational picture of heterogeneous networks by collecting system information from physical, data-link, network and application layers using extended methods and mechanisms for OAM, which take into account particularities of persistent access heterogeneity and IoT. A heterogeneous OAM (H-OAM) framework is proposed with a toolset for streamlined failure detection and isolation, and automated performance measurement and monitoring. The framework combines extended standardized OAM toolsets for physical and data-link layers with multiple well-defined and recognized IP network layer toolsets, which introduces possibilities for a tactical view of the monitored system and quick root cause analysis with unified interpretation and cross-correlation of horizontal and vertical levels. A practical deployment of an H-OAM system is presented and its use is demonstrated in a live mobile IoT testbed environment where performance is a function of a wide variety of physical layer parameters that need to be tuned and monitored by the operator. Results of two concrete usage scenarios performed in cooperation with two largest Slovenian mobile operators demonstrate how continuity check and connectivity verification, and performance diagnostics are conducted for Web-based IoT applications and network services of a live operational environment