Abstract:

This talk will address the issue of privacy preservation in ambient assisted living (AAL) applications. AAL systems that make use of audio and video can support the daily life of elderly and frail people in a situation-dependent and unobtrusive way. However, such systems can also pose a potential threat to the security of the monitored individuals as well as an intrusion on their privacy.  We will review various methods for privacy preservation and secure handling of personal data in AAL systems with a particular focus on technical approaches and the use of communication technologies and protocols.

About the speaker

Slavisa Aleksic obtained both the Dipl.Ing. (MSc) and the Dr. techn (PhD) degrees as well as his venia docendi teaching authorisation (habilitation) for Communication Networks from the Vienna University of Technology in 1999, 2004, and 2017, respectively. He worked for several companies such as Unioninvest, Unis-Unidata, Steinbeis Temming, and Deutsche Telekom in different positions. Between 1998 and 2015, he was working at the Vienna University of Technology in different positions and with several institutes. During August and September 2011, he was a Visiting Researcher with the INTEC-IBCN of the Ghent University. From 2015 until 2021, he was a professor with the Hochschule für Telekommunikation (HfTL), Leipzig, Germany. Currently, he is a professor at the Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur (HTWK), Leipzig, where he is responsible for teaching and research within the broad area of network technologies with emphasis on network design, management, and performance evaluation.

Slavisa Aleksic is the author and co-author of more than 140 scientific publications. He has been involved in a number of projects related to communication systems and networks including projects funded by the European Union (FP6 and FP7), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), ERASMUS and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) as well as in collaboration with several companies.

Dr. Aleksic is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the OVE, the MRS and the IEICE. He serves as a reviewer for numerous reputed journals and book series published by e.g. IEEE, EURASIP, OSA, ELSEVIER, SPRINGER, TAYLOR & FRANCIS and a member of the Technical Programme Committees of a dozen of international conferences (IEEE, IFIP, IEE, OSA, IAIRA). He received several international and national awards and grants such as four best paper awards, the biggest Austrian business plan award i2b (second level) and the grant of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.