Overview
Protect
Monitoring safety of patients 24/7 (e.g. bed-exits, falls, wandering, etc.), automated and anonymized.
Prevent
Nurses get critical information about e.g. impending falls in time and and in a way that they can react accordingly. Furthermore they are able to adjust the system to the need of their clients and high false alarm rates from currently used sensors are a thing of the past.
Assist
Support activities of daily living (e.g. going to the toilet). Clients are guided through certain tasks autonomously by the DIANA virtual assistant. Nursing staff receives on-the-spot info in order to assist when needed.
Check
Observe behavioral trends and provide evidence for later assessment by clinical experts. Support the optimization of living quarters (private and shared rooms) in order to ensure the well being of clients (e.g. water and food intake, dead ends).
Technology
The sensors are seamlessly integrated into the Milestone VMS Open Platform ecosystem enabling the flexible handling of generated events and analytic data.
Participation in the Project
We are looking for care institutions and hospitals in EU who are interested in participating in our case studies. Contact us if you want to join one of our 3 pilot phases over the next 3 years :
1) Safety module: this is the basic module with functionalities like fall detection, bed-exits, access control or smart lighting interfaces, mobile alarm clients, etc.
2) Interaction module (application currently open): Additional functionality is added to provide assistance, especially on the toilet.
3) Analysis module (application currently open): e.g. study movement flows of resident in shared areas. This shall help to identify where people tend to get stuck during their wandering.
In order to take part in the project, the following requirements need to be fulfilled: your residents or part of your residents need to have mild to medium cognitive impairments.
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Safety Module
started Q1/Q2 2021
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Assessment & Interaction Module
start 2022
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Analysis & Documentation Module
start Q3/Q4 2021
Consortium
cogvis
Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, TU Vienna
EET Europarts
Smart City Innovation Lab, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra
Geriatrische Klinik St. Gallen
BluePoint
Funding
Collaboration
The project has a collaboration with the following entities:
Results
What is happening in DIANA right now?
Milestone Middleware
The DIANA system is able to detect emergency situations like falls. This is done by analysing depth sequences. If such an event occurs, an alarm is forwarded to caregivers and listed in the Milestone Alarm Manager.
Mobile App
The mobile application is the easiest way to communicate alarms. This way, caregivers receive alarms on their work phone or tablet, and can directly react. If an alarm is forwarded, details like the alarm type, affected sensor and time can be accessed. Additionally, a small image is visible which allows the caregiver to see what actually happened. The alarm can then either be closed or pushed.
Analysis & Documentation Module
Methods to visualize walking paths of end-users have been explore within the Analysis & Documentation Module: Heatmaps and individual walking paths allow to analyse and highlight the areas where a user has spent most of the time.
Individual walking paths further allow to see the progress of a person’s walking path. This method is suitable for a shorter period of time since too many tracks would be not recognized as individual track anymore.
Interaction Module
The Interaction Module aims to identify irregularities in the usage of the toilet and provides step-by-step guidance to assist in this task. Therefore, interaction possibilities with people with dementia have been investigated. Focus groups with secondary end-users helped to narrow down the design options and largely validated the insights gained from the literature review. The modalities selected are a video showing an avatar performing the action and an audio recording giving the instruction verbally.
News
Focus groups in Spain
Last May we held two focus groups to gather expert opinions on how to design effective technology-enabled instructions for people with dementia in the context of toileting. These focus groups took place at the Rey Ardid Rosales Residence in Zaragoza, Spain, and involved a total of 13 healthcare professionals from a variety of backgrounds. The[…]
3 Scientific publications
Since project start, 3 scientific publications could be successfully submitted to field-related conferences: 1) Lumetzberger J., Raoofpour A., Kampel M. “Privacy preserving getup detection“. PETRA 2021: The 14th Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference (ACM), July 2021, Corfu, Greece. 2) Lumetzberger J., Ginzinger F., Kampel M. “Sensor-based Toilet Instructions for People with Dementia“. In:[…]
AAL Guidelines for Ethics
The DIANA project was invited – together with other AAL projects – to participate in testing the AAL Guidelines for ethics, data privacy and security. Ethics and Privacy issues are fundamental not only to demonstrate a high quality of R&D procedures in human – technology interactions, but also to guarantee that the findings and output of a[…]
Pilot sites installation
Test installations in Switzerland and Portugal are running in order to set everything up for our pilot phases. In the picture, one can see a workplace where visualizations of the fearless sensor are visible via the milestone system. The visualizations are 3D depth images that only reveal shapes and silhouettes of objects and persons, and[…]
Pre-pilot survey
In order to gain information on the care givers’ experience on AAL (Active Assisted Living) technology, their attitude towards its use and difficulties in their work that could be assisted with DIANA, we conducted a survey with in total 106 participants in the pilot site countries (PT and CH). Despite the current difficulties due to[…]
DIANA kick-off meeting in Vienna
In February 2020 all project partners came together in Vienna to officially start the DIANA project. The kick-off meeting enabled us to get to know each other, our institutions and to speak of our collective goal: using technology to help cognitively impaired people.