Category: User Experience
ESSENSE consists of a transdisciplinary Strategic Partnership, bringing together higher education institutions, Vocational Education and Training (VET) institutions, business associations and representatives of social enterprises. Each bringing different expertise related to BIM, project management, Information and Communication Technologies as well as Smart Housing and Ambient Assisted Living, where collaboration will be reinforced on problems as important as the ageing population.
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This paper presents a framework of spatial indicators to assess local environments based on the domains of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (AFC). The framework can be applied within local neighbourhoods, census tracts, suburbs, municipalities, or cities with minimal resource requirements other than applied spatial analysis.
Read MoreHUBBI: eHealth UsaBility Benchmarking instrument
Category: User Experience
Usability benchmarking tool for eHealth developed in the context of eHealth solutions for older adults
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Assistive technologies including assistive robots (AT/AR) appear to be a promising response to the increasing prevalence of older adults in need of care. An increasing number of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) try to implement AT/AR in order to create a stimulating environment for aging well and to reduce workload for professional care staff. The implementation of new technologies in an organization may lead to noticeable cultural changes in terms of social interactions and care practices associated with positive or negative emotions for the employees. This applies especially for LTCFs with high rates of vulnerable residents affected by increasing care needs and specific ethics in nursing and cultural rules within the setting. Thus, systematic consideration in leadership management of emotions and ethical aspects is essential for stakeholders involved in the implementation process. In this article, we explicitly focus on the emotions of the employees and leaders within LTCFs. We relate to direct consequences for the organizational well-being and culture, which is of course (indirectly) affecting patients and residents. While aspects of technology acceptance such as safety and usefulness are frequently discussed in academic literature, the topic of emotion-management and ethical questions during the organizational implementation process in LTCFs received little attention. Emotional culture entails affective values, ethical norms and perceptions of employees and further investigation is needed to address the importance of transformational leadership during implementation process. For this purpose, we developed a three-staged assessment tool for implementation of AT/AR in long-term care institutions. Acceptance (A), ethical acceptability (A) and emotional consequences (E) are considered as comprehensive assessment, in which emotional consequences comprise management aspects of transformational leadership (T), emotion-management (E) and organizational culture (O). Based on AAE and TEO, this paper presents an integrated framework illustrated with a illustrative example and aims to combine established approaches with ethical insights in order to unfold potentials of AT/AR in LTCSs.
Read MoreIntelligent lighting system for comfortable living of the older people
Category: Projects
This research deals with the IoT-system development, that based on lighting and thermal comfortable parameters for improving the comfortable living of the older people. Also the second task of the IoT-system is avoiding and predicting instant decreasing of health level for older people based on data photoplethysmogram.IoT system uses the fuzzy knowledge base on the edge level for decreasing the computational complicity. For knowledge base development on cloud level the deep learning, clustering and fuzzy logic methods were used.
Read MoreJournal of Enabling Technologies
Category: User Experience
Reports on innovations around how technologies are used and evaluated in practice, and the impact that they have on the people using them
Read MoreLearning modules Hands-on SHAFE BUILT
Category: User Experience
To learn to build inclusive environments we developed 7 online modules, including (among others) age-friendly house, dementia-friendly house, mobility outdoors.
Read MoreManufacturers and Developers Guidelines
Category: User Experience
Guidelines for manufacturers and developers of Active and Healthy Ageing solutions aiming for a Personal User Experience (PUX, Action Group C2): Recommendations and Lessons Learned V1
Read MoreMOOC on Handling lower back pain
Category: User Experience
The education of chronic pain patients and their relatives on self-management increases their self-confidence and improves their possibility to monitor, control and cope with the disease. This improves the patient's quality of life and reduces the physical and psychological symptoms. The main goal of this MOOC is to improve knowledge and skills of working adults regarding evidence based strategies that can help individuals manage their low back pain in all personal spheres (work, family, leisure etc.). But this course will show all the people that live with low-back pain and have a sedentary lifestyle or have arduous jobs how to self-manage their pain by adopting healthy behavior strategies. Learners will become more aware of their health and well-being, both at work and in the personal sphere.
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The daily working environments in which informal carers and direct care workers assist stroke survivors are highly demanding. Carers carry out most essential tasks, usually with high physical and emotional burden and with little specific training. The most commonly experienced challenge among carers is finding sufficient information on caring for a stroke survivor. This course will provide timely, reliable, and sound information and training to informal carers and direct care workers that will help enhance service provision and improve the stroke survivors' and carers' experiences and well-being.
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