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

Description du projet

Réimaginer les technologies d’assistance aux personnes âgées

Le vieillissement de la population européenne entraîne un besoin croissant de produits qui soutiennent l’indépendance des personnes. La technologie d’assistance (TA) est souvent disgracieuse et stigmatise l’utilisateur, provoquant un taux d’abandon élevé. Le projet MATUROLIFE, financé par l’UE, soutient l’indépendance des personnes âgées en intégrant des textiles «intelligents» dans trois prototypes innovants de TA. Il développera non seulement un processus innovant de métallisation sélective des textiles, mais intégrera également la conception centrée sur l’utilisateur et la co-création au cœur de ses activités. Pour ce faire, il collaborera avec des personnes âgées pour développer des formes discrètes de TA qui seront non seulement fonctionnelles, mais également désirables.

Objectif

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.

Appel à propositions

H2020-NMBP-2016-2017

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Sous appel

H2020-NMBP-2017-two-stage

Régime de financement

IA - Innovation action

Coordinateur

COVENTRY UNIVERSITY
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 193 845,00
Adresse
PRIORY STREET
CV1 5FB Coventry
Royaume-Uni

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Région
West Midlands (England) West Midlands Coventry
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 1 193 845,00

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