Analysis Responses

Intelligent 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.

Journal 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

Learning from COVID-19: Design, Age-friendly Technology, Hacking and Mental Models

Category: User Experience

Journal paper: Abstract: In March 2020 the United Nations published an open brief for the creative community to propose interventions to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. However, when faced with unprecedented wicked problems such as these, the rigour of design and creative processes can tested. COVID-19 has demonstrated how important human centred design responses are in understanding the worldviews and ecosystems of users. Ad hoc design responses or design hacks have demonstrated that they have a role to play in how we create our future individual, community and societal ecosystems. In terms of age friendly design, this pandemic makes us envision what should be, furthermore, how we could create better products and services through technology. For our ageing communities ?ocooning' and other social restriction measures have exposed technological deficiencies for the needs of older people and opens up questions of our future preparedness for a growing ageing society. Now more than ever, designers need to understand the behavioural mind-set of older people in their own ecosystem and understand existing mental models. In this opinion piece we posit what acts of design hacking can lead us to greater understanding of users mental models and therefore better understanding of technology needs for both older and younger adults. While presenting various examples of how design hacking is conducted by citizens and participants alike, it shows that it offers designers differing perspectives, experiences and inspiration for technology.

Learning modules Hands-on SHAFE SMART

Category: User Experience

To learn to use wearable devices and smartphones, how to support indipendent living

Making a Case for Creating Living Labs for Aging-in-Place: Enabling Socially Innovative Models for Experimentation and Complementary Economies

Category: User Experience

Aging is continuously depicted as a force majeure event despite clear and robust premonitions of its coming. However, such depiction serves to justify the unpreparedness and inadequacy of policies manifesting in loneliness and isolation, unsatisfied demands in health and social care, lack of suitably inclusive residential and social facilities, and inequitable access to support and services. Recent years have seen an increase in social innovation that involves alternative transaction models, such as time-banks and circular economies. These initiatives represent collective responses to changes and challenges such as aging by identifying and innovatively capturing and exchanging locally- and freely- available assets with the intent to fulfill economic needs (more affordable goods and services), social ambitions (skills development and exchange, repurposing space, social inclusion, and cohesion) environmental aspirations (up-cycle) and psychological needs (sense of purpose, identity, belonging, recognition). Whilst it is often assumed that ad hoc measures are appropriate to resolve the challenges posed by an aging demographic, the learnt assumption that underpins this work is that aging is a systemic issue and ought to be understood, and resolved, in its context, not by producing niche- relevant policy and interventions, but considering the impacts it has on the whole society. Henceforth it is proposed that truly transformative social innovation for the aging population must consider and resolve the challenges of communities as these are where older adults can stay relevant socially and, in the presented approach, also economically. Through the review of four international case studies, a framework with four cornerstones has emerged. This includes the changing role of local and central governments, the models of value creation, co-creation mechanisms, and finally, technology, especially digital social currency. The concurrent presence of the four factors in the framework is not always a requirement for social innovation to emerge and flourish. However, the presented analysis suggests that all four themes have an impact even when not being direct agents of social innovation. The authors conclude by making a case for developing Living Labs for Aging-in-Place, to experiment and study proposed solutions for systemic challenges facing the aging population, grounded in community-led schemes.

Making Healthy Places

Category: User Experience

This project looks at such convergences and divergences within a particularly instrumental environment - the barriers and opportunities that present to built environment practitioners when making healthy places.

Manufacturers 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

Mappler

Category: User Experience

Mappler is a family of interactive mapping web-based mapping products (Mappler, Mappler Mobile and Mappler X) that use technology-forward tools to visually display information to a broad audience.

Measuring and 3D modelling of indoor spaces, a 3D point cloud dataset of a hospital ward

Category: Other

Scanned 3D data and techniques to do more scans and reconstruct 3D models out of them

mHealthINX

Category: User Experience

The mHealthINX solution will provide an entirely new user experience in coping with the sensitive but very important and urgent topic of Mental Health in occupational settings. The solution targets the support of older employees (50 ) and the prevention of stress-related diseases such as depression, anxiety, and cardiovascular diseases.