{"id":1004,"date":"2019-06-12T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T07:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2019-06-12T21:41:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T20:41:44","slug":"ambient-assisted-living-aal-summer-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/2019\/06\/12\/ambient-assisted-living-aal-summer-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm0cm0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent:0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 28px;\"><b>SICSA is sponsoring the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer School which is taking place on 6<\/b><b><sup>th<\/sup><\/b><b>&#8211; 8<\/b><b><sup>th<\/sup><\/b><b>August at Heriot Watt University.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm0cm0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent:0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 21px;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/aalsicsasummerschool\/\"><b>SICSA Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer Schoo<\/b>l<\/a><b> <\/b>is Scotland&#8217;s first ever summer school designed to allow students to explore key concepts for the design of advanced AAL systems<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm0cm0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent:0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 21px;\">The program includes presentations from industry representatives and healthcare organisations, in addition to lectures and tutorials on sensing, linked data, machine learning and robotics for AAL applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm0cm0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent:0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 21px;\">The summer school is open to students and research staff, and employees of charities, non-profit organisations and companies with relevant backgrounds. Financial support is available for students at SICSA institutes to cover their on-campus accommodation and lunch costs, generously sponsored by SICSA, SICSA CPS and AI themes, and Nexus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm0cm0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent:0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 21px;\">The deadline for applications is 30th June. Attendance will be limited, so please <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/aalsicsasummerschool\/attend\">apply<\/a> early<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm0cm0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent:0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 21px;\">Full details of the SICSA AAL Summer School can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/aalsicsasummerschool\/\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm0cm0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent:0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 21px;\">If you have any questions or you would like to contact the Organisers, please see<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/aalsicsasummerschool\/contact_1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm0cm0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2text-indent:0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SICSA is sponsoring the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer School which is taking place on 6th&#8211; 8thAugust at Heriot Watt University. The SICSA Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer School is Scotland&#8217;s first ever summer school designed to allow students to explore key concepts for the design of advanced AAL systems. The program includes presentations from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/2019\/06\/12\/ambient-assisted-living-aal-summer-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer School&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,114,115],"tags":[112,111,110],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aal","category-sicsa","category-summer-school","tag-aal","tag-sicsa","tag-summer-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/SWeL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}