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Final Conference of Friendly Rest Room (FRR)Project

FRR is an EU funded R&D Project (contract number: QLRT-2001-00458, duration: 2002-2005) in the 5th Framework Programme. The final conference of the FRR project took place on March 17, 2005 at external link Caritas Socialis, Oberzellergasse 1, 1030 Vienna. Below a timetable and the updated presentations can be found.

Time Schedule and online Presentations:

Time Content
10:00 Welcome and opening
  • Chair person: Prof. Johan Molenbroek, FRR Coordinator, TU Delft pdf symbol Download PDF
  • Dr. Ulla Herfort-Wörndle, Secretary General, EURAG
  • Dr. Elisabeth Hechl, Austrian Federal Ministry of Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection
  • Mag. Ursula Hensel CEO Vienna MS Society
  • Dr. Christine Schäfer Head of Caritas Socialis day care centres
10:25 Quality of Life / Key Action 6- The Aging Population and Disabilities
Dr. Gesa Hansen, European Commission, DG Research.
10:40 Presentation of partners pdf symbol Download PDF
Prof. Johan Molenbroek, FRR Coordinator, TU Delft.
Overview on FRR Project pdf symbol Download PDF
Prof. Johan Molenbroek, FRR Coordinator, TU Delft.
User-Driven Research: User Involvement & User Needs
10:50 Results from User Needs Questionnaires pdf symbol Download PDF in English | pdf symbol Download PDF in German
Christian Dayé, EURAG.
Case Studies from Milan pdf symbol Download PDF
Terezinha Menezello, SIVA; Milan.
CBI - Computer Based Interviews as a tool pdf symbol Download PDF
Peter Gregor, University of Dundee.
User Involvement & Ethics
11:20 Purpose and implementation of User Involvement pdf symbol Download PDF in English | pdf symbol Download PDF in German
Marianne Egger de Campo & Christian Dayé, EURAG.
Ethics in FRR pdf symbol Download PDF
Prof. Ina Wagner & Marjo Rauhala, TU Vienna.
12:00 Lunch break (buffet)
possibility to join a guided tour to toilet room used for FRR real life test
User-Centred Design & Engineering
13:30 Research in and design of toilet supports and means for perineal cleansing pdf symbol Download PDF
Sonja Buzink & Dries Dekker, TU Delft.
13:45 Design of flexible user interface demonstrator, control software and sensors pdf symbol Download PDF
Paul Panek, FORTEC, TU Vienna & Håkan Neveryd, CERTEC, Lund Univ.
14:05 Overview about iterative prototype generations at the 5 test sites in Vienna, Lund, Athens, Delft and Milan pdf symbol Download PDF
Paul Panek, FORTEC, TU Vienna.
14:35 Coffee break
15:05 Toilet design for visually impaired persons pdf symbol Download PDF
Håkan Neveryd, CERTEC, Sweden.
15:20 Results from Athens - including report about sequence of testing and used material pdf symbol Download PDF
Panayota Sourtzi, HAGG & University of Athens, Athens.
15:35 Engineering and Manufacturing of the final FRR prototype according to the user needs pdf symbol Download PDF
Attila Rist, CSO, Debrecen.
FRR in the Real Life
15:55 Real life test at a day care centre pdf symbol Download PDF in English | pdf symbol Download PDF in German
Nadia Gentile, EURAG & Georg Edelmayer, FORTEC, TU Vienna.
16:30 Voices of the users pdf symbol Download PDF in English | pdf symbol Download PDF in German
Sonja Adolf, Brigitte Fink, Angelika Freist, MS day care centre at Caritas Socialis Vienna (primary users), Ramona Rosenthal, Christine Pauli, Nurses from Caritas Socialis, Vienna (secondary users), Robert Schlathau, MS Society Austria, User Board, (primary user).
17:00 Discussion
Moderation: Prof. Johan Molenbroek, TU Delft & Paul Panek, FORTEC.
17:30 End of the conference

Additional Material from final conference:

  • CD-ROM (last update 050816) with all presentations:

  • Download Eurag's Report about conference (PDF, 0.6MB): pdf symbol in English | pdf symbol in German | pdf symbol in Italian | in French

  • Download Handouts from conference: pdf symbol in English (PDF, file size 13MB)

    [ external link Web site of FRR consortium ] | [ fortec's English FRR Page ] | [ fortecs deutsche FRR Seite ]