universAAL - A AAL Competition

This document reports about the structure and organization of the EvAAL (standing for Evaluating AAL Systems through Competitive Benchmarking) competition. It first summarizes the meaning and purpose of EvAAL with respect to the architecture, platform and services of universAAL and with the other deliverables related to the community building activities. Then it discusses the background of EvAAL, in particular how EvAAL fits the community building strategy and its purpose from a technical point of view. Then it presents the intended audience of EvAAL and discusses previous experiences of competitions organized to support other communities in order to identify the best practices. The second part of this document describes the organization and structure of EvAAL, specifying the structure of the committees and their roles, the financial aspects, the tasks to be done with respect to establishing and running the competition, the criteria to be used to measure the success of EvAAL and to drive its future competitions, and the modalities of marketing of EvAAL. Finally the document summarizes a roadmap to the first competition.