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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@EDUCAT_Interreg
Partners & Observers
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• CRN-T APFOP1
• DSP ValleyOP2
• DynamicControl
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• 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
UART
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: [email protected] clinical trials: [email protected]
@EDUCAT_Interreg