Have you participated in a usability test session yet? Well, you can sign up here.
See you soon!
Have you participated in a usability test session yet? Well, you can sign up here.
See you soon!
GoLivePhone is a user-friendly smartphone that derives from Fraunhofer AICOS’s SmartCompanion and results from the work of scientists and developers of AICOS and the Dutch company GoCiety.
GoLivePhone has many features: medication reminder, activity monitoring, fall detection, location and remote configuration of the smartphone, among others.
COLABORAR is happy and proud to see seniors of different countries using the applications that were tested by the Portuguese seniors of COLABORAR!
You can check the entire article here (Portuguese only) and also on Fraunhofer AICOS website.
We are happy to share with you that Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (SCML) has come across COLABORAR on the Internet and has identified us as an example to show to others regarding best practices in designing with and for older adults.
SCML is involved in a European project called SIforAge and has requested us to be involved as stakeholders in the project.
We have gladly accepted the invitation and we are looking forward for the fora that will bring different institutions together to discuss possible ways forward in the development of solutions for active and healthy ageing.
About the project SIforAge:
The SIforAge project (SOCIAL INNOVATION ON ACTIVE AND HEALTHY AGEING FOR A GROWING AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY) is an international partnership, funded by the European Union, in the scope of the European Programme FP7. The SIForAGE counts on the participation of 19 international partners, including Brazil and Turkey (representing many sectors of society) such as: Universities, Public Administration, Companies, NGO’s, among others. It has as a challenge the social innovation and including innovative aspects in the formulation of public policies, as well as approaching the investigation on active and healthy ageing to the senior population. That project lasts for four years (2012-2016).
After several questionnaires, along with usability and validation tests, a large scale pilot is being prepared for the project AAL4ALL.
In this pilot trial, participants will effectively use the applications developed for smartphone and television in their own homes for a period of 2 months on average.
Participants have already been recruited by COLABORAR and seem very enthusiastic about the beginning of the pilot!
We will have more news regarding this pilot soon.
ChefMyself is being presented at the AAL Forum, an international conference that brings together researchers, investors, entrepreneurs and experts from the fields related to technological solutions for elders and it takes place in Bucharest, in Romania.
This year, the kitchen robot and some ingredientes traveled to Romania along with the tablet application so that the participants have the opportunity of assisting to real-time demonstrations of ChefMyself, and perhaps taste the healthy and delicious meals prepared at AALForum!
COLABORAR is proud to announce that this resulted from the interviews and tests conducted by Fraunhofer AICOS (and also by other partner institutions of the Consortium of ChefMyself)!
Thank you all the participants of COLABORAR that contributed for this project.
Remember the amazing project Dance. Don’t Fall!?
Researchers of Fraunhofer AICOS made interviews with teachers of Gymnastics for seniors at the partner institutions of COLABORAR and are preparing big surprises related to this project!
We can give you a clue: Dance. Don’t Fall! was in the origin of this new application that will help all seniors to get fit…Stay tuned!
We promised we would have surprises regarding the COLABORAR project… So, here they are: this is the 2nd year that COLABORAR is being presented at the AAL Forum.
This year, the application developed for COLABORAR is being presented. It allows user registration and inserting questionnaires data, it also allows us to keep track of the institutions in the network and the activities performed.
The new booklet of COLABORAR is also being distributed.This material was prepared for the institutions get to know more about COLABORAR: the institutions in the network, the activities, the experiences of the volunteer users, the Website and the Fraunhofer AICOS’s location.
Be part of an amazing project that allows you to be part of research of practical utility in Portugal. Meet the researchers, the people behind the projects, the prototypes and see how ideas evolve into full grown solutions!
Please sign up here and we will contact you soon.
COLABORAR. Together we simplify the future!
Have you ever imagined that your smartphone can evaluate and predict your fall risk while you perform your routinely activities, such as walking around and sitting down?
With an application developed at Fraunhofer AICOS within the project FCC Fall Risk Assessment installed in your smartphone this is a reality. In this phase, researchers of Fraunhofer AICOS are conducting validation tests to evaluate fall risk amongst the elderly population with the precious help of the volunteers of COLABORAR.
The next test session is coming soon! Sign up here and be the next to participate.
Look at what we found: seniors of COLABORAR on an edition of the magazine Domingo of Correio da Manhã!
In this edition, seniors and a caregiver (Technical Director of Centro de Convívio para Idosos do Bonfim) are demonstrating the use of a smartphone especially designed for seniors, created within the project Smartphones for Seniors (S4S). This article was written in the context of a news piece at Fraunhofer AICOS for Falar Global, of Correio da Manhã TV. If you missed it, you can check it out over here.
We are so proud!
A big thanks to all the participants!