
When we created the COLABORAR project, in 2011, we could not imagine how the project would grow and evolve. The network expanded from 3 to 50 partner institutions. More than 700 users have participated in at least one COLABORAR activity, whether it was a test, a usability test, a questionnaire, an interview, demo or other, in a total of 1900 sessions. New users joined the network which, at the moment, includes seniors, caregivers and professionals across Portugal and abroad.
Internally, a CRM application was created and has been optimized, so that we can manage all the aspects involving the relationships with the institutions and the individual participants. The app allows us to register user participation and, therefore, ease the process of accurate user recruitment, according to the requests of the researchers, users’ characteristics and preferences.

As we celebrate our 4th anniversary, we are focused on the future of usability testing with older adults and people with specific diseases or disabilities. We gladly announce that we are preparing a new mobile application that will enable us to do remote user research and that reserves many surprises for the users in the network.
This week we are celebrating our achievements by inviting a day care/living centre, while symbolically honouring each and every person who collaborated with us so far. Our guests visited the facilities and tried out some of our mobile applications for tablets, TVs and smartphones. A sincere and big thank you! We hope all enjoyed the celebrations as much as we have and we hope to celebrate many more years with all of you!
