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Project number: AAL-010000-2011-3

�NACODEAL �Users' requirements�

NACODEAL meeting 22/02/2012

First findings

Presented by e-Seniors

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��NACODEAL Meeting 22 February '12�

• WP2 Calendar (partial)
• Adjusting some questions to field
• Population interviewed / Keeping coherence
• Population interviewed / Keeping variety
• Early results (experts)
• Coordination of resulting information
• Rendition synthesis

��WP2 Calendar (partial)�

• Done
• Translation of method and questionnaires
• 3 F to F interviews
• 1 Professional Carer
• 2 Medical Doctors (1 AD specialist & 1 specialist in comm'n tech for seniors)
• Planned (short term)
• 4 more F to F (from 27 Feb on) : 1 Geriatrician , 2 Staff (homes for EP), 1 non professional carer
• Under preparation
• 2 Focus groups (1 in a retirement home & 1 general)
• 100 Questionnaires launch

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��Adjusting questions to interviewees�

• Annex 1 / Face to Face interviews
• Adaptation to interviewee
• Sometimes too technical
• Some points may not be dealt with by interviewee (too far from competence/out of competence)
• Demographic Statistics part has to be « reduced »
• Annex 2 & 3 / Focus groups
• Seems to us the questions have to be split into 2 groups: « patients » and « caregivers/helpers/HPs/+ » or at least more focused on the interviewees

�First Interviews France

• Mrs Trzebinska, professional helper with a lady, 94, suffering from AD.
• There is an age limit/status limit for every person
• Contact with family an relatives essential, voices & images must be familiar , whole device contextual
• Cognitive or sensorial impairments (sight, audition, +)
• Anxiety relief (give confidence)
• Initiation or training are necessary
• « film vs photo »
• Keep contact with ‘network’ when outside
• Keep ‘exclusion’ away

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• Dr G. Nekritch / AD specialist / Designs therapies for AD patients
• NACODEAL NOT for advanced AD patients
• Should stimulate ‘surviving’ capacities knowing that lost capacities in the case of AD won’t come back
• Should help with time and space disorientation
• Should be personalised with « own environment  » (visual memories, familiar voices, music, etc. all « personal »)
• Should develop, or at least maintain communication with others
• Device must not be intrusive (no foreign body, no ear phones, no special spectacles, not stigmatising)

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• Dr M-M. Bernard / Endocrinologist / Director Pace 2000 foundation promoting transgenerational communication via technology (Pace2Face)
• Technology must help overcoming prejudiced ideas and barriers by enabling better communication
• Elderly people will pay more attention to technology when « coached » by young people
• « Technologists » should have elderly people in mind when developing their poducts
• Applications should emphasise human commnications
• Device must not arrive as a ghost => preparation and training for better appropriation
• Non stigmatising

�Temporary synthesis

• Human commnicatin, and more generally communications ESSENTIAL
• Targeting : early take up of symptoms (early memory losses) and early detection of cognitive impairments
• Personalisation>Choice of functions, services & applications>Taming>Training>Hand holding
• Non stigmatisation / Inclusion (as opposed to exclusion)

�About Tablets et al. for NACODEAL

• Possible augmented reality compatible tablets
• Fujitsu Iris
• http://www.concept-phones.com/fujitsu/
• Also « transparent »  phones w. camera and AR capability

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• Kinect type or « intelligent » cameras

�Fujitsu Iris transparent Tablet