EDUCAT Empowerment of Disabled people through the User Coproduction of

Assistive Technology (2016-2020)

Annemarie KokosyProject Manager

8th BRAIN INJURY MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE, 6th October 2017, Canterbury

Outline

1. General information about EDUCAT Project

2. Study on current situation on mobility: technologyand preparation of clinical trials

3. E-platform for co-creation/co-production

4. Conclusion

1. EDUCAT: General information

• Objective: develop and deliver embedded hardware and software devices in the health sector using a co-creation approach. – Assistive Technologies (ATs) open, modular and able to adapt their

assistance (or to be adapted by the user) to the user’s needs and give feedback to users in response to their needs.

• Expected benefits – cost and time savings for companies (for developing technologies) and

hospitals (for care)

– higher efficiency of use of the technology, and better quality of life for disabled people having motor impairment or/and neurological disorders

• Start date: 01/09/2016

• Duration: 4 years

• Website: www.educat2seas.eu

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Partners & Observers

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• CRN-T APFOP1

• DSP ValleyOP2

• DynamicControl

OP3

• KABIFOP4

• ESIGELECOP5

• SWBFOP6

• EurasantéOP7

End User

Care Giver

Vendor

ResearcherEngineer

Assistive technologyData recording

system

Integrated Obstacle alerting system

Adaptable AssistiveMobility System

Driving assistance to park the PWC

Body sensors

Environment sensors

EDUCAT

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Benefits

• Improvedintervention

• Improvedrehabilitation

• Higherindependence

• ImprovedQuality of Life

• Shorter time to market

• Cost and time savings

• Increasedmarketopportunities

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Tests & Clinical evaluations

• Current situation on mobility and

economic situation

– Collect information on use of wheelchair

and the time spent by caregivers assisting

the user, the measure of quality of life

• Understand the daily use of AT and the needs

• Estimate the costs of care

Data recordingsystem

2017 2018

• Improved intervention – inform the user and clinician about user health and

changes in health

– monitor the effect of medication on driving patterns

– monitor whether that medication is less effective and whether an appointment with the clinician is advisable.

– assess whether the chair programming/set up is appropriate to the user’s needs and whether reprogramming or reassessment is required

Data recordingsystem End

user

Caregiver

2018

Tests & Clinical evaluations

• Improved targeted rehabilitation programme

– diagnostic information on user condition and its

changes

• improve the driving skills

• increase the number of prescription of powered wheelchairs

• improvement of the usage, in terms of confidence and safe

driving with the developed technology

Data recordingsystem

2018

Integrated Obstacle alerting system

2019

Tests & Clinical evaluations

• Ensure higher independence

– Provide help by a driving assistance

• Increased time of use of the wheelchair

• Decrease the need of external help

• Increased quality of life, because the AT is adapted to the

user’s specific needs and condition, enhancing their

autonomy.

Data recordingsystem

2019 2020

Adaptable AssistiveMobility System

Driving assistance to park the PWC

Tests & Clinical evaluations

2. Study on current situation on mobility:

technology and clinical trials

WP2: Data recording system

End User

Care Giver

Vendor

ResearcherEngineer

Data storage

Hardware devicesCommunication layer

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GPSB Interface

R-NET Bus Interface

DynamicControl

Penny & Giles

- Which treatment? - Which interaction withthe environment? - …

UART

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Data recording system

Server hosted by EDUCAT domain

Questionnaires

Login system for the app, according to EU rules

Methodology

• Participants: Adults (PWC has Dynamic Controls DX or LiNXcontrol system or a Penny & Giles R-Net control system)

• Location: user’s home and the neuro-rehabilitation ward at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital

• Length of Participant Involvement: 5 days

• Data to be collected– Participant pre-trial interview/Carer pre-trial interview

– Daily Dairy (Feeling of wellbeing/Taking of medication/Environment in which they are using the PWC)

– End of trial questionnaire (participant & Carer)

– Data stored in the SD card: joystick movements/collisions/speed/GPS

3. E-platform for co-creation/co-production

• Starting on 1/09/2016

• End-users

• Companies

• Academics

• Healthcare professionnals

• Service providers

• …

• Contribute to existing ideas (via forums)

• Test (co-creation sessions, prototype testing, questionnaires)

• Submit a new idea

• Succes stories, news

• …

• Voice of end-user/User experiences

• Cross-collaboration between all stakeholders

• Possibility to give to /get feedback from academics, SMEs, service providers, …

• InformationWhy? How?

When?Who?

Co-creation methodology

e-Platform

e-platform – iTCH!iTCH! is a free, international co-creation

and networking e-platform that you can use

to share your idea or to contribute to

innovative projects in the framework of

assistive technology for elderly or/and

disabled people

e-platform – iTCH!If you want to join

the iTCH!-community

but don't have a

particularly idea, you

are able to discover

and join other

interesting projects

as a project

partner. Disabled

people, engineers,

care givers,

researchers,

companies and

organizations:

everybody who is

concerned can take

part in the

iTCH!community.

4. Conclusion

• The data recording system ready to be used

• First clinical trials will start end of this year

• Co-creation of technology for a better health

thanks to the e-platform iTCH!

For more information: www.educat2seas.eu

Contact EDUCAT: annemarie.kokosy@yncrea.frContact clinical trials: matthew.pepper@nhs.net

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