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eMobility – Strategic Applications AgendaHealth and InclusionSymmetry of the connectionasymmetric.Bit rateLow bit rate, constant.Maximum transfer delay250 msBrief description of European and national projects and their contributions in the topic is presented in Annex A.II.4.3. Future ChallengesThe main challenge for Assistive Technologies is offering independence and autonomy to senior citizens andpeople with disabilities. In order to achieve this, efforts should be focused on research projects about:Locating services and guiding people with heterogeneous disabilities at places like museums, airports andshopping malls.Developing customized and accurate platforms to exchange homogeneous data among different devices, servicesand healthcare personnel.Developing easy to use, highly reliable, unobtrusive, low power and transparent technologies and devices in orderto gain seniors' confidence. The implementation of stress detectors and face recognition applications utilisingemotion recognition techniques is expected to meet the expectations and cognitive capabilities of the end users.It will be necessary to consider ethical issues in this application domain to ensure adequate respect for theindividual end user‘s rights, such as self-determined private life etc.II.5. Well being and personalisationWell being and personalisation technologies enable all citizens at home, work and leisure, to utilize and make themost of the technologies available in the benefit of health, fitness and independent living.II.5.1. DescriptionWell being and personalisation technologies include independent living applications, such as nutritional advice,activity coaching, brain trainers and autonomous mobility and smart workplace applications such as elderlyfriendlyroute guidance, personal mobility, tourism, leisure and smart workplaces. These services are personalisedand adapted to the profile of the users, to their preferences and to their health status. Well being andpersonalisation technologies include the following broad areas:A. Fitness. Fitness and rehabilitation are important for well-being and health. Fitness technologies consist ofsmart fitness and rehabilitation devices as well as concepts for fitness-training, nutrition and top-sport. Thesesolutions exploit various technologies and applications such as wireless solutions, networks, multimedia, WAP,Bluetooth, digiTV, biotechnology, biosignals and nanotechnology. Heart rate monitoring can be combined withthese devices. The objective is to brand wellbeing and services for use in everyday life. These applications targetyounger people and workplace exercise.B. Personalised applications . Well being technologies are those that support people in their daily lives andenhance their capacity. Personalisation refers to the principle of making systems and services completely adaptedto the real necessities of the final users. Although personalised applications concern all citizens, people moreaffected by disabilities and movements impairments, such as elderly, blind people, etc., are those who will benefitmost from new technological advancements in the benefit of their well being.However, when more advanced interfaces, content and services are available for all types of individuals, theseapplications will be adopted and used by other groups as well.19