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Creative Design for Inclusion Research & Design Programme University of the Arts Utrecht (HKU) Gerard van Wolferen gerard.vanwolferen@kmt.hku.nl. AAL JP Call 6 Central InfoDay – Brussels, 6 February 2013. Who We Are. 15 years experience of eInclusion and eAccessibility EC projects
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Creative Design for Inclusion Research & Design ProgrammeUniversity of the Arts Utrecht (HKU)Gerard van Wolferengerard.vanwolferen@kmt.hku.nl AAL JP Call 6 Central InfoDay – Brussels, 6 February 2013
Who We Are • 15 years experience of eInclusion and eAccessibility EC projects • 2 running AAL projects (STIMULATE and ASSAM) • Vibration vest (TNO, Sense Company) for hearing impaired young people on the dance floor. • Heart Beat, a care person proximity sensor for a deaf and blind person. • TACT, a vibration based game and communication device for deaf & blind children. • Kindergebaren, interactive learning material to learn sign language for pre lingual children with and without a hearing impairment. AAL JP Call 6 Central InfoDay – Brussels, 6 February 2013
Project Idea • Strong focus on user-centered innovation • Offer strong applied research methodologies for requirements gathering, testing and evaluation • Special focus on longitudinal methods and gathering requirements in projects with hi tech interfaces, devices or services for lo tech people • We connect research, design & development specialists with the real users in real user situations. • We see the user as a person and a co-designer and not as a group AAL JP Call 6 Central InfoDay – Brussels, 6 february 2013
Looking for • Interested in participating in Call 6 proposals as co-ordinator or as a partner • Preparing a proposal on ‘new working methods’ with a focus on public sector employees and on supporting transitional work-related events • Also interested in speaking to consortia who require interface design (especially audio based) or who require game-design based implementations • Thank you for your time • Gerardvanwolferen@kmt.hku.nl AAL JP Call 6 Central InfoDay – Brussels, 6 February 2013