Secure Active Ageing: Participation And Health For The Old Secure Active Ageing: Participation And Health For The Old A New Approach in Assistive Technologies Touchable interface. Seniors interact with SAAPHO through a mobiletouch screen user interface that offers direct interaction experience. Personalised Interface. The user interface adapts its features to the needs of the users allowing a better technology acceptance to reduce initial barriers. Assistive surroundings. SAAPHO adds intelligence to user surroundings to facilitate the living conditions. Examples of this are environmental anomaly detection, intrusion detection or abnormal activity condition. User - Centered Design • From the very beginning, SAAPHO involved direct participation of end users in the iterative design lifecycle of the system. • Elderly users with different profiles and nationalities (Spain, Slovenia) continuously validated the system to satisfy their needs and requirements. Saapho AAL System Decoupled architecture. The system is composed by independent but interoperable components that easily enable updating, replacing or even aggregating new ones. Open system. SAAPHO middleware offers generic interfaces to be compatible with diverse communication protocols, services and sensors from the market. User data privacy. System counts with secure transmission protocols and data cyphering to provide a secure and trustable environment. Low Cost. SAAPHO is aware about economy of its users thus wired and proprietary technologies are replaced by open source alternatives and wireless protocols (e.g. Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, Bluetooth). Market Oriented. SAAPHO works with available off-the-shelf CE market devices. Saapho is an R&D European collaborative project (aal-2010-3-035) funded by the AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) programme that aims to assist seniors to participate in the self-serve society preserving and enhancing independence and dignity through the application of innovative ICT-based solutions. Saapho solution proposes: • A set of intelligent services towards the three axes recognized by active aging (WHO, 2001) policy: participation, safety and healthcare. • An open, decoupled and secure AAL middleware that enables the interoperability among all SAAPHO services. • A new approach in assistive technologies with an integrated, personalised and touchable application interface to reduce e-inclusion barriers. Method and Results In order to assess the usability, accessibility, applicability, user satisfaction, as well as the impact in daily life activities and detecting areas for improvement, SAAPHO has been tested as follows: • Questionnaires (Oct 2011, n=201) and focus groups (Nov 2011, n=18) were run in the early stages of the project. • The Year 1 Prototype (Y1P) was tested in July 2012 as a mockup. (n=10). The Year 2 Prototype (Y2P) was tested in October 2013, in a lab setting (n=40), both in Spain and Slovenia. The Year 3 Prototype (Y3P) was tested from beginning of April 2014 to end of June 2014, in final user’s homes (n=6), both in Spain and Slovenia. • First year prototype (Y1P) and second year prototype (Y2P) were easy to use according to usability test parameters of effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction. • Main results of final prototype (Y3P) indicate that SAAPHO platform was very well accepted among the participants in both countries (Spain and Slovenia); easy to use; most of the offered services were extremely useful; responded to the older people’ needs and promoted active ageing. Global Saapho System Architecture
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Secure Active Ageing: Participation And Health For The Old
Secure Active Ageing: Participation And Health For The Old
A New Approach in Assistive Technologies
Touchable interface. Seniors interact with SAAPHO through a mobiletouch screen user interface that offers direct interaction experience.
Personalised Interface. The user interface adapts its features to the needs of the users allowing a better technology acceptance to reduce initial barriers.
Assistive surroundings. SAAPHO adds intelligence to user surroundings to facilitate the living conditions. Examplesof this are environmental anomaly detection, intrusion detection or abnormal activity condition.
User - CenteredDesign
• From the very beginning, SAAPHO involved direct participation of end users in the iterative design lifecycle of the system.
• Elderly users with different profiles and nationalities (Spain, Slovenia) continuously validated the system to satisfy their needs and requirements.
Saapho AAL System
Decoupled architecture. The system is composed by independent but interoperable components that easily enable updating, replacing or even aggregating new ones.
Open system. SAAPHO middleware offers generic interfaces to be compatible with diverse communication protocols, services and sensors from the market.
User data privacy. System counts with secure transmission protocols and data cyphering to provide a secure and trustable environment.
Low Cost. SAAPHO is aware about economy of its users thus wired and proprietary technologies are replaced by open source alternatives and wireless protocols (e.g. Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, Bluetooth).
Market Oriented. SAAPHO works with available off-the-shelf CE market devices.
Saapho is an R&D European collaborative project (aal-2010-3-035) funded by the AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) programme that aims to assist seniors to participate in the self-serve society preserving and enhancing independence and dignity through the application of innovative ICT-based solutions.
Saapho solution proposes:• A set of intelligent services towards the three axes recognized by active aging (WHO, 2001) policy: participation, safety and healthcare.
• An open, decoupled and secure AAL middleware that enables the interoperability among all SAAPHO services.
• A new approach in assistive technologies with an integrated, personalised and touchable application interface to reduce e-inclusion barriers.
Method and ResultsIn order to assess the usability, accessibility, applicability, user satisfaction, as well as the impact in
daily life activities and detecting areas for improvement, SAAPHO has been tested as follows:
• Questionnaires (Oct 2011, n=201) and focus groups (Nov 2011, n=18) were run in the early
stages of the project.
• The Year 1 Prototype (Y1P) was tested in July 2012 as a mockup. (n=10). The Year 2 Prototype
(Y2P) was tested in October 2013, in a lab setting (n=40), both in Spain and Slovenia. The Year 3
Prototype (Y3P) was tested from beginning of April 2014 to end of June 2014, in final user’s
homes (n=6), both in Spain and Slovenia.
• First year prototype (Y1P) and second year prototype (Y2P) were easy to use according to
usability test parameters of effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction.
• Main results of final prototype (Y3P) indicate that SAAPHO platform was very well accepted among
the participants in both countries (Spain and Slovenia); easy to use; most of the offered services were
extremely useful; responded to the older people’ needs and promoted active ageing.
Global Saapho System Architecture
Secure Active Ageing: ParticipationAnd Health For The Old
ExploitationWe have delivered a solution that offers healthcare, participation and safety services through an adapted tablet interface as well as a middleware able to integrate those services and remotely monitor their consumption and user requests. It has involved necessary refinement of some issues detected during the 3 pilots and development of extra features that were required before market launch (web page control information collected for each user, videoconference between web tablet App). The estimated time to market after project completion is 6 months.
Barriers as well as possible contingencies for a successful market launch have been identified: price of competitors is low, so it is important to establish convenient agreements with technological providers to be competitive; for users it is important that their service provider has a reliable brand in the market, therefore well known insurance or telecommunication companies might become the best channels; number of potential competitors is growing fast, but an advanced telecare service offered through SAAPHO is more complete than existing ones.
SAAPHO consortium has been actively designing a commercial service to bring SAAPHO’s technology to the market. Beyond the project, SAAPHO is studying integration with complementary telecare applications for the elderly and for people with special needs and disabilities.
Safety Service
SAAPHO ensures the safety and well-being of the users.
• CE marked sensors (gas leak, fire and
panic button) and ambient parameters
(motion, temperature, humidity, luminosity
and doors).
• Home Wireless Sensor Communication
with central unit (Collector) using Z-Wave.
• Smart Safety gateway to collect and
analyse data for detection of emergencies
and abnormal situations.
Health Services
SAAPHO provides services to assist older people in activities related to the health prevention and monitoring:• Health care services (i.e. real time feedback generation service, historical summary calculation service and recommendation generation service).
Service components:• Home based Monitoring sensors (i.e. Blood Pressure, Blood Glucose, Weight and Activity).
• Health Intelligent Server (HIS) stores measurements and provides historical data, recommendations and alerts.
• Health Gateway conveys the measurements and provides measurements classification.
• Middleware generates and adapts messages to communicate results to the user.
• User-interface presents textual feedbacks, historical data and recommendations.
Participation Services
SAAPHO offers services to communicate and to be informed about friends and relatives.
• SAAPHO tablet provides photo sharing, personalised news, video-conference, email, instant message and social notification services.
• Main component: Participation gateway
- Interacts with Facebook, Gmail, G+, feeds and other social providers.
- Analyses collected social data for personalising the user interface.
Secure Active Ageing: ParticipationAnd Health For The Old
Credits
Project Coordinator : Barcelona Digital Centre Tecnològic (BDIGITAL) www.bdigital.orgCoordinator : Felip Miralles | Tel : +34 93 553 45 40 | [email protected] | [email protected] Website : www.saapho-aal.euThe research leading to these results has received funding from MINETUR (Spain); VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH (Germany); Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Slovenia); Vinnova (Sweden) and the European Community AAL Joint Programme, - SAAPHO project reference aal-2010-3-035
Z-wave sensors
(1) Example of CE marked devices interacting with SAAPHO tablet, middleware and HIS.(2) SAAAPHO End-users preferred non-intrusive equipments.
