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Metallisation of Textiles to make Urban living for Older people more Independent Fashionable

Descripción del proyecto

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Volver a imaginar la tecnología de apoyo para las personas mayores

El envejecimiento de la población europea lleva aparejada la necesidad de contar con productos que favorezcan la independencia de las personas. La tecnología de apoyo (TA) suele ser antiestética y estigmatiza al usuario, lo que provoca altos índices de abandono. En el proyecto MATUROLIFE, financiado con fondos europeos, se favorece la independencia de las personas mayores incorporando textiles «inteligentes» a tres prototipos innovadores de TA. Su equipo no solo creará un proceso innovador para la metalización selectiva de textiles, sino que también integrará el diseño centrado en el usuario y la creación conjunta en el núcleo de sus actividades. Para lograrlo, trabajará con las personas mayores para desarrollar formas discretas de TA que sean funcionales y atractivas.

Objetivo

Urban areas are seeing an increasing population of older people and existing approaches to care for them are becoming unsustainable creating a European wide societal challenge. Assistive technology can provide them with security that will enable them to live independently e.g. wearing alarms and tracking devices around the arm or neck to alert carers to falls or their location if they wander. However such technology is often unsightly and stigmatises the user resulting in high abandonment rates.
The MATUROLIFE project will integrate creative artists and fashion designers into the research team to facilitate design-driven innovation. The project will build on existing technological advances in materials which have produced a highly innovative selective metallisation process that utilises nanotechnology, electrochemistry and materials science to encapsulate fibres in textiles with metal and thereby provide conductivity and electronic connectivity. In this way, better integration of electronics and sensors into fabrics and textiles will be possible. This will give the fashion designers and artists the tools to produce AT for older people that is not only functional but is more desirable and appealing as well as being lighter and more comfortable.
Building on exiting best practice the consortium will include societal stakeholder groups representing end users (i.e. older people) who will be heavily involved in the design process as well as giving feedback and direction on the development of AT prototypes contributing significantly to end-user acceptance. The prototypes will demonstrate proof of concept and the industrial scalability of the selective metallisation process will be validated. Thus, the project will end at TRL7.
The Assistive Technology produced as a result of the project will benefit all the SMEs in the consortium but particularly those in the creative sector who expect to see sustainable growth and an increase in jobs as a direct result of the project.

Ámbito científico

Programa(s)

Tema(s)

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-NMBP-2016-2017

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Convocatoria de subcontratación

H2020-NMBP-2017-two-stage

Régimen de financiación

IA - Innovation action

Coordinador

COVENTRY UNIVERSITY
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 193 845,00
Dirección
PRIORY STREET
CV1 5FB Coventry
Reino Unido

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Región
West Midlands (England) West Midlands Coventry
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Coste total
€ 1 193 845,00

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