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In the course of the AIDEM2021 Symposium, the toilet module of DIANA is presented. The event takes place virtually on Oct. 29th 2021 and is about Artificial Intelligence for Prevention & Intervention in Dementia Care.
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The work done so far by project partners collecting end-user requirements regarding the DIANA solution was presented to the scientific community and wider community at two events this past month. On September 16, 2021, at EAI GOODTECHS 2021- 7th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good and at the 3rd Sheldon Conference meeting “Solutions for ageing well at home, in the community, and at work”on October 14. The paper “What do nurses and carers in Portugal wish and need from a digital intelligent assistant for nursing applications” presented at these two events lays out the results of the work done at the beginning of the project to collect the first set of requirements of patients living with acognitive impairment and their carers for the DIANA system.
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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 occasion was also seized to gather information on the acceptance of the proposed technology by the healthcare staff, in particular with regard to privacy concerns.
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Since project start, 4 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: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, July 25-29, 2021, USA.
3) Machado N., Dantas C., Leandro A. F., Guardado D., Münzer T. Helfenberger N., Vafeiadis G., Manolios K., Amza C. „What do nurses and carers in Portugal wish and need from a digital intelligent assistant for nursing applications“ – accepted at EAI GOODTECHS 2021, Sep 15-17 2021.
4) Ballester I., Mujirishvili T. and Kampel M. “RITA: A privacy-aware toileting assistance designed for people with dementia”, accepted at EAI PervasiveHealth 2021 – 15th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, December 6-8, 2021, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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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 project are sound, scalable, sellable and suitable for the market.
Ethical tools are tested with DIANA project to understand, with the help of some external experts, the viability and effectiveness of the suggested approach.
As a first step, an Ethical Board was installed within the project consortium in order to regularly discuss ethical topics that arise during the project.
Additionally, an Ethics workshop session is planned with multiple project partners (developers, technicians, sociologists, nurses, users) to discuss possible needs, problems and expectations arising with the use of a solution like DIANA.
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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 not their identity.
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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 COVID-19 we could arrange partly online, and partly face-to-face interviews with professional care givers.
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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.