Category: User Experience
The approach was taken by a group of five procurers to set specifications for a joint procurement of value-based research and development services for IT-supported integrated hypertension management. The approach considered the unmet needs of patients and health systems of the involved procurers.
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ACTIVAGE is a European Multi Centric Large Scale Pilot on Smart Living Environments. The main objective is to build the first European IoT ecosystem across 9 Deployment Sites (DS) in seven European countries, reusing and scaling up underlying open and proprietary IoT platforms, technologies and standards, and integrating new interfaces needed to provide interoperability across these heterogeneous platforms, that will enable the deployment and operation at large scale of Active
Read MoreAge Friendly Project and Training Design Consultancy
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Age Friendly Training for Businesses and Individuals who provide services to elderly population
Read MoreCAPTAIN: Coach Assistant via Projected and Tangible Interface
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It provides a smart home assistant for older adults, designed to compensate their physical and memory impairments during daily living. It uses technologies as projected augmented reality to project information and instructions on top of the real environment, real-time 3D sensing technologies to comprehend the indoor spaces, deep learning and artificial intelligence to analyse emotional, behavioural and physiological data. The coach will leverage on a motivational engine to promote correct nutrition, physical activity, cognitive and physical training, risk avoidance, and social participation.
Read MoreCity4Age: Elderly-friendly City services for active and healthy ageing
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City4Age will activate urban Communities to facilitate the role of social/health services and of families in dealing with mild cognitive impairments and frailty in the elderly population. The challenge is to demonstrate that Citiesplay a pivotal role in the unobtrusive collection of more data on individual behaviours, and with increased frequency. This can then greatly improve the early detection of risks through the timely analysis of changes in these behaviours and, finally, the design of effective interventions for countering these risks.
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This co-creation study aimed to develop a smartphone self-test application for balance and leg strength in collaboration between older adults and the research team. The paper describes older participants' preferences for, and their contribution to, the application design. The main results were participants' desire to know why, to get clear and appropriate information, and expectations of the self-test to be useful. It was feasible and valuable to develop the self-test application in co-creation with the intended user-group, in order to get direct feedback and suggestions for the development.
Read MoreCo-designing an Embodied e-Coach With Older Adults: The Tangible Coach Journey
Category: User Experience
Guidelines for the design of an embodied virtual coach for seniors from the NESTORE H2020 project
Read MoreCOOP4HEALTHCARE - Cross-sectoral Alliances for Smart Healthcare Solutions
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The project aims to improve the provision of services in the health sector through consistent cross-border cooperation between the relevant actors in the program area and with strategic European partners. Through this, highly-efficient, focused and long-term oriented pilot project (digitalisation, knowledge excellence,
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The smart platform for monitoring and ensuring individual health with patient participation based on the ontology approach (SPMiHO) is the platform that provides e-health services with preventing risks and confounders based on the individual ontology and smart patterns for timely health correction. This is very important for effective prevention of severe chronic diseases and their consequences, especially in the elderly people. The virtual SPMiHO platform is located on a cloud and includes IoT system that uses 1) various sensors for monitoring the basic parameters to characterize the main indicators of human health, 2) data collection and transmission channels that process based on a variety of information transfer technologies, 3) personal data protection tools, 4) intelligent data collection and processing services, 5) analytical analysis tools, decisions making (making a diagnosis) tools, 6) collecting and processing data on the results of treatment, 7) the messenger for timely informing of the responsible persons.
Read MoreCreation Process of the Digital Platform to Foster Healthy and Active Aging: enbuenaedad
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Andalusia is a region in the south of Spain with 8,4 million inhabitants of which 1,3 million are over 65 years old. Andalusia has been recognized as Reference Site by the European Commission within the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging. The Regional Ministry of Health of Andalusia has put in place strategies to promote healthy and active aging. One of these strategies is enbuenaedad, a digital platform which main aim is to foster active and healthy aging. The target audience is people over 55 years old, caregivers of older adults, as well as health and other key professionals who work with this population. Content sections are inspired in the three pillars of the World Health Organization (WHO) policy framework for active and healthy aging: health, participation, and security, but introducing an additional one which is lifelong learning. One of the strengths of this platform is the creation process. Using a co-thinking design, all target groups get voice under the umbrella of empathy and are empowered by providing support, training, knowledge, and best practices. For its development, dissemination, maintenance, and improvement, the project advocates the unavoidable participation of key stakeholders representing all sectors involved: The Senior Council of Andalusia; Primary Health Care professionals; local authorities; Guadalinfo agents; Permanent Adult Education; and Active Participation Centers. Quantitative and qualitative data obtained within the process support this project. Since its launching, 10,779 users have registered to the platform with more than 157,000 visits. Focusing on WHO four pillars on active and healthy aging Enbuenaedad is based on, preliminary results show effectiveness regarding participation and social interaction. Furthermore, achieving high participation coverage is a necessary but not sufficient input to the provision of adequate approach to older people. More comprehensive evaluation of the four pillars must be taken to ensure a holistic approach. A challenge is a cooperation between three traditionally independent sectors, cooperative work between health, social services, and education is crucial for the future sustainability of this intervention.
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