Projects

The rapid development of IT around the millennium-change has created an urgent necessity to define theories, methods and concepts in order to analyse and evaluate the interaction between IT, environment and users. The population in the world get older and many people want to stay in their homes as long as possible. IT in housing combined with an accessible and usable environment may give presumptions for an independent living for the elderly and people with disabilities.

Domotic Lab has built up its experience from the multi-disciplinary work done in collaboration with Swedish and international research teams within two European-projects. The projects were financed within the "Telematics applications for the Integration of Disabled and Elderly" DGXIII-TIDE -programmeunder the European Commission, between 1997 and 2001. In the NJORD-TIDE support action as co-ordinating team and in the FACILE- project as contractor. The results are presented in a number of deliverables and in hypertextformat on CD-ROM. The results are also presented on the Internet.

• Facile project includes an Electronic Guide about accessibility (the Guide to Design). The project also includes the design and construction of two "smart" pre-discharge home units, one in Sweden and one in Italy.
  
  
• Njord-Tide project has resulted in an Electronic Handbook about methods for user sensitive evaluations of domotic environment, i.e. "smart" homes (EAS Handbook). EAS Handbook