EC Tide Project DE 3006.
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EC Tide Project DE 3006.
Mobile
Rescue Phone
Project Summary
The project aims at integrating the non-uniform group of disabled and elderly potential customers into the mobile phone users society for interpersonal communication. The GSM services have great potential for enhancing autonomy and quality of their life.
The main objective is to redesign existing mobile phones and simplify the user interface to meet the manifold needs of elderly and disabled people and make mobile phone services accessible for them.
A second objective is to realise an efficient access to emergency services, i.e. provide a foolproof and failsafe operating procedure and integrate GPS-localization features.
A third objective is to provide interfaces to add-on equipment e.g. for hearing impaired: Text telephony awareness of public alarms, speech intelligibility enhancement, and link to hearing aids.
A specific objective is to provide interfaces to integrate results from TIDE projects SICONA and DEFIE, and to solve the severe interference impact of digital mobile phones on hearing aids.
The anticipated result is the Mobile Rescue phone and system: The basic MORE-Phone is a mobile phone with integrated GPS, forming the 'application core' - with customizing features by optional multimodal i/o add-ons. GSM standard infrastructure is used. Existing public and private service centres will be upgraded with computer mapping equipment and software.
Major Validation Sites
| Kotiranta Service Centre | Joensuu, Fin 80101 | Finland |
| Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia | Udine, I 33100 | Italy |
| Deutscher Alpenverein | München, D 80997 | Germany |
| Johanniter Unfallhilfe | Wien, A 1180 | Austria |
| Oberlinhaus Berufsbildungswerk | Potsdam, D 14482 | Germany |
| Kliniken Schmieder | Allensbach, D 78473 | Germany |
Users
All conceivable user categories are integrated
in the project from the beginning - via the test site partners in the 'MORE
user club'. They will define the user requirements covering basic future
mobile multimedia and 'design for all' aspects. They will test the demonstrators.
Approach
The MORE-system contains and integrates GSM and
GPS modules, and utilises GSM services and infrastructure, software-modules
have to be added and user interface has to be redesigned.
Expected benefits for the citizens
By using the MORE-Phone elderly and disabled
citizens can call for individual help or initiate rescue at any time from
any place covered by GSM. In the emergency call mode the efficiency of
rescue activities will increase remarkably due to precise localisation
of the user.
Expected benefits for the users of the application
Disabled and elderly people will gain general
access to mobile telecommunications, and get the presently missing support
for spontaneous safe-guarded moving around. Support is provided for those
European households/homes which take care of elderly or disabled persons.
Expected benefits for the European Industries
The MORE-Phone is an innovative product family
and puts the European industry ahead of international competition in assistive
technology. The industrial partners intend to produce a first production
run very soon after the project.
Contribution to EU Policies
The project is user driven. The MORE-system improves
the autonomy of life for older and disabled people, covering the manifold
user categories with the basic MORE-Phone, thus meeting the 'ARTICLE 100A
DIRECTIVE'. The consortium is cooperating with SAFE21
and takes results from SICONA
and DEFIE
projects. The rich experience of the work done under the COST219
action and the INCLUDE project
was integrated into the development process.
MORE directly meets the requirements of the EU’s 4th Framework Programme, where consideration of D&E was a main issue.
The different Key Actions of the EU’s 5th Framework
Programme also include the needs of D&E e.g. KA1
"Systems and services for the citizen" of the 2nd Thematic Programme
“Promoting a User-Friendly Information Society (IST)” addresses the development
of services “for everybody” and in the preamble D&E are specifically
addressed under “socio-economic needs”. KA1.3 expressively deals with “Persons
with special needs, including the disabled and the elderly”.
Priorities of the KAs are defined for persons
with special needs “to support autonomous living, social integration and
participation in the information society”, all of which are addressed by
MORE. Cross programme action 3 deals with Design-for-all for an inclusive
information society.
The project is user driven. The MORE-system improves
the autonomy of life for elderly and disabled people, covering the manifold
user categories with the basic MORE-Phone, thus meeting the 'ARTICLE 100A
DIRECTIVE'.
Project duration
January 1997 - March 2000
Project coordinator
Project Partners
| BENEFON OYJ | Salo, FIN 24101 | Finland |
| SERPE IESM | Guidel, FR 56520 | France |
| CSELT | Torino, I 10148 | Italy |
| FORTEC | Wien, A 1040 | Austria |
| STAKES | Helsinki, FIN 00530 | Finland |
| IfADo | Dortmund, D 44139 | Germany |
| Rigel Eng. | Brussels, B 1030 | Belgium |
| EHIMA | London, UK GU 7PX | United Kingdom |
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