Medical Delta Living Lab 'Assistive technology at home'

For someone with functional limitations, various tools and services are available for home use. But which ones are effective? And for whom? The Medical Delta Living Lab 'Assistive technology at home' investigates this.

The range of tools and services for home use is vast. However, it is often underutilized. This may be due to professionals and potential users being unaware of these options, a lack of knowledge about their quality, poor alignment with user needs, or insufficient evidence of their effectiveness leading to non-reimbursement.

Through the living lab, users, professionals, researchers, and developers collaboratively seek the optimal use of supporting technology in the home environment.

Systematic approach

The living lab develops a systematic approach for assessing, evaluating, and applying supporting technology for home use.

It builds a community of individuals with care or support needs who are willing to try out tools in their daily lives. They test products and services, providing valuable feedback to developers, researchers, care organizations, municipalities, and insurers.

The Medical Delta Living Lab 'Assistive technology at home' closely aligns with the eponymous Medical Delta research program. The living lab serves as a means to conduct practical research for the program. Experiences from the living lab and findings from the research program are shared and mutually reinforce each other.

Goals

• Developing an infrastructure of individuals who test and evaluate existing and new tools in their own living environment;
• Developing methods and procedures to conduct these tests and evaluations in a scientifically manner that leads to valid results;
• Developing a methodology for disseminating evaluation results to end users as well as professionals, companies, financiers, and the educational sector.

Contact

For more information or if you are interested in participating, please contact one of our innovation managers.