Human Centered Design
The credo of Ab.Acus is bringing innovation to usable and flexible solutions by means of a design approach based on usability and ergonomics. Human-centred design is an approach that aims to make systems usable and useful by focusing on the users, their needs and requirements, and by applying human factors/ergonomics, and usability knowledge and techniques. This approach enhances effectiveness and efficiency, improves human well-being, user satisfaction, accessibility and sustainability counteracting possible adverse effects of use on human health, safety and performance.
Ab.Acus has gained experience in designing, assessing and tuning innovative systems in the health and wellbeing domains thanks to its long-term collaboration with international and valuable clinical and scientific partners. Agile and persona-based methodologies are at the core of the whole development process that is shaped through iterative and co-creative methods that allow a continuous feedback and tuning loop. Our design approach builds upon participatory principles aimed at emphasizing inclusion of stakeholders since the early stages of development. The design stages revolve around stakeholders analysis, contextual framing, iterative testing, data collection, modelling and prototyping.
Alleviating problems of people and optimizing the healthcare delivery through the integration of different technologies is the focus of Ab.Acus’ mission. We strongly believe that the success of a solution is deeply linked to its scalability and usability within the target community. Our working methodologies and solid international network make Ab.Acus the perfect partner for the development of pioneering technologies while ensuring proper engagement and quality standards. Our success stories talk about relevant products and international R&D projects in the field of rehabilitation, long-term care, cognitive and behaviour monitoring making our expertise about human factors and users’ needs an added value for the final deployment.
MUSAE
MUSAE - A human-centred factory for a future technological sustainable development driven by arts The MUSAE project aims to set up a Factory Model based on the Design Future Art-driven (DFA) method to strategically guide digital technology innovation and address future challenges in the food domain [...]
RFLEX
RFLEX is an innovation project aimed at improving home rehabilitation by flexible electronics exploiting Radio Frequency technology
AGREE
The goal of AGREE is the development of a device for the rehabilitation and the daily assistance of the upper limb motion to empower the person with motor disabilities in daily living activities performance.
MoveCare
MoveCare develops and field tests an innovative multi-actor platform that supports the independent living of the elder at home by monitoring, assisting and promoting activities to counteract decline and social exclusion.
REELER
The REELER project aims at aligning the roboticists’ visions of a future with robots with empirically-based knowledge of human needs and societal concerns. It will offer proactive steps towards ethical and responsible robots by suggesting radical changes in current robot design procedures.
RETRAINER
The aim of the RETRAINER proposal is to tune and validate advanced, robot-based technologies to facilitate recovery of arm and hand function in stroke survivors and to verify extensively the use of the system by end-users.