The ambition of the eWALL project is to develop an interactive, wall-mounted electronic device that helps older users have an active old age with the greatest possible independence. This presentation is part of the Remote Care Nearby course, taught by Prof. Dr. Miriam Vollenbroek-Hutten withing the Creative Technology bachelor studies at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands.

1. Electronic Wall for
Assisted Long Living
Cristian-Dan Bara
Roessingh Research & Development
4.May.2015
Grant agreement no: 610658

2. Consortium

3. Our aim
The ambition of the eWALL project is to
develop an interactive, wall-mounted electronic
device that helps older users have an active old
age with the greatest possible independence.
An important goal is to make the system able to
adapt to individual needs.

4. Our aim
● To enable elderly people with chronic conditions (age related
frailty, COPD, mild dementia) to live an independent, normal
and social life.
● To enable relatives of the elderly to give them the necessary
care in a dignified way without invading their lives.
● To enable professional caregivers and relevant organizations to
be more effective in their work and have a closer relationship
with more people who need them.

5. Users
Primary
Users:
Elderly
ARI COPD Mild
Dementia
Secondary
Users
Informal
caregivers
Visiting
nurses
Medical
practitioners
User groups

6. How ? (basic concept)
● Using ICT solutions for monitoring coaching and
healthcare communication support
A smart caring home
o A sensing network allows us to monitor elderly living
patterns and quality
o An array of lifestyle reasoners (algorithms which make
decisions based on monitoring data and caregiver settings)
will detect recommend coaching sessions
o A large (wall mounted) touchscreen provides rich feedback
to elderly
C.-D. Bara (Enschede)
2015

7. How? (service model)
Infrastructure as a service
S. Kyriazakos (Aalborg) 2014

8. Project
Ok, we have the basic idea. Let’s make a project out of it :)
Before we start, let’s remember: every project needs a good plan to begin with.
● We’ve set-up a time goal: It has to happen within 3 years.
● We’ve structured our work into work packages.
○ a work package (WP) is a subset of a project that can be assigned to a specific part for
execution. It is commonly known that breaking down work into manageable pieces (work
packages) is a process that depends on the project. (wp - wikipedia)
● We’ve assigned groups of partners to work in the work packages according to
their strengths/expertise.
● We made a detail timeplan of deliverables according to each workpackage tasks
and aims
○ deliverable is a term used in project management to describe a tangible or intangible
object produced as a result of the project that is intended to be delivered to a customer
(either internal or external). (deliverable - wikipedia)

9. Project wps
WP Name WP Aim
1. Project management It includes all aspects of project coordination, including
organization of progress meetings, general exchanges with
the Commission and within the consortium, responsibility for
submission of progress reports to the Commission and the
distribution of financial support paid by the Commission to
the partners.
2. Requirements analysis & use case
scenarios
This task carefully analyzes the relevant scenarios that are of
utmost interest for the eWALL project, i.e. scenarios of ADL
support for elderly people with mobility and mild cognitive
impairments. It delivers: personas, scenarios, use-cases
3. eWALL devices & processing algorithms A multitude of sensors are installed in the house of the
elderly. Building the necessary sensors and interfacing with
all of them is handled in this task.
4. eWALL platform Use data from the sensors, context of monitored persons
(medical conditions, caregiving support
availability,technology supported actions) and best medical
practice to enable intelligent decision support, providing
optimal supporting actions for the users.

10. WP Name WP Aim
5. Personalized services & applications Focus is given to the extraction of slow and fast lifestyle
changes that can indicate changes (to the better or worse) of
the user’s health condition.
We envision applications in the following areas:
(i) Increasing the self-care abilities via real time monitoring
and education of dangerous actions.
(ii) Lifestyle change through coaching ,adapted to the
personalized lifestyle & entertainment for healthy living.
(iii) Socializing through technology assisted communication
6. Integration, optimization, validation and
evaluation
Focuses on testing all developed technologie and validates
the data communication between all technology parts.
Optimizes ICT service quality.
7. Dissemination, exploitation,
standardization
Activities under this task will support the other work packages
in spreading information about the project.
e.x.: @eWALLproject eWALL
8. Demonstration This WP is set to deploy and validate on a large scale the
eWALL concept in the real life scenario to build-up
evidence for the adoption in the healthcare management
level.
Project wps

11. RRD participates in
2. Requirements analysis & use case
scenarios
● we started by getting to know our users and
made personas
RRD presentation,
(Vienna) 2014

12. RRD participates in
2. Requirements analysis & use case
scenarios
● we started by getting to know our users and
made personas
● we made scenarios for each persona where
they were using the system
eWALL D2.2.
2014

13. RRD participates in
2. Requirements analysis & use case
scenarios
● we started by getting to know our users and
made personas
● we made scenarios for each persona where
they were using the system
● we detailed the scenarios in use-cases
M. Cabrita
2015

14. RRD participates in
4. eWALL platform
● we adapted our intelligent
decision support system to
eWALL requirements
H. op den Akker,
C.-D. Bara, 2015

15. RRD participates in
5. Personalized services &
applications
● we designed eWALL
prototypes to fit our
scenarios
The eWALL main screen user interface
C.-D. Bara, 2014

16. RRD participates in
5. Personalized services &
applications
● we designed eWALL
prototypes to fit our
scenarios
The eWALL sleep monitoring application
C.-D. Bara, 2015

17. RRD participates in
5. Personalized services &
applications
● we designed eWALL
prototypes to fit our
scenarios
The eWALL showing a reminder with physical activity goals for the
week. This reminder is produced automatically by the goal setting
reasoner.
C.-D. Bara, 2015

18. RRD participates in
5. Personalized services &
applications
● we designed eWALL
prototypes to fit our
scenarios
The eWALL showing an alarm (all alarms have specific sounds)
C.-D. Bara, 2015

19. RRD participates in
5. Personalized services &
applications
● we designed eWALL
principles of interaction to
fit the technology form
factor.
C.-D. Bara, 2014

20. Conclusion
User centered design is helping us understand the needs and
particularities of our target-users, so as the eWALL services achieve
successful implementation
We are advancing towards creating the smart caring home, elderly will
use for their healthy living
Thank you :)