Resourceful ageing
Themes: Software technology & Intelligent Systems, Social Impact
Early lab scale demonstration
A TRL is a measure to indicate the matureness of a developing technology. When an innovative idea is discovered it is often not directly suitable for application. Usually such novel idea is subjected to further experimentation, testing and prototyping before it can be implemented. The image below shows how to read TRL’s to categorise the innovative ideas.
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Why?
We develop innovative methods that combine IoT, machine learning and ethnography in iterative loops, to design products and services that empower elderly people to live resilient, independent lives, in which they remain in control.
How?
These methods are developed in a Research Through Design process, which enlists as participants a community of both elderly people and the objects they ordinarily use and ‘misuse’ (from material artefacts to computational technologies).
When?
The first IoT prototypes are being deployed, which will collect data about everyday patterns of resourceful living. The data will be analysed using machine learning and used in ethnographic interviews to generate insights that can inspire designers to enable and facilitate resourceful ageing.
Iohanna Nicenboim MSc