Open DeveloperSpace: An Enabling Infrastructure for Stakeholders to Generate New Access Solutions.

The DeveloperSpace, one of the core components of GPII, is a self-sustainable infrastructure and collaborative environment, where developers, implementers, consumers, prosumers and other directly and indirectly involved actors (e.g. teachers, caregivers, clinicians) may interact with and play a role in its viability and the development of new access solutions.

Feed3: A Strategy for a 3-Direction Connection Among AT Consumers and Developers.

The Feed3 strategy aims to provide AT consumers, developers and manufacturers with Feedback, Feedforwards and FeedPeer mechanisms to collaborate in the development of novel accessible solutions. This strategy was developed as part of the GPII and it is currently adopted by the Unified Listing and DeveloperSpace infrastructure components.

Patient interaction in homecare systems to treat cardiovascular diseases in the long term.

The rapid aging of the population worldwide will dramatically increase the number of people affected by chronic diseases in the next years. This social situation makes it necessary a paradigm shift from reactive care to preventive care. New technological paradigms, like Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing, allow the development of Personal Health Systems (PHS) that guarantee the continuity of care and a better use of health resources. Therefore, patients should become the centre of the health care process, and PHS should be designed to fulfill the patient's goals and needs. User-centred methodologies provide a good framework for designing general use applications, but they do not usually take into account factors like the context where the interaction is taking place or the medical, social and business contexts that surround the patient. This paper presents a model for designing user's interaction in medical applications. The final goal is to develop highly usable user interfaces and to improve the user experience, aiming to guarantee the patient's adherence to the medical protocols and recommendations.