MobilAssistant
An app to facilitate the communication between dependants, caregivers and volunteers
Categories
Who is behind it?
Innovator type
Podmiot prawny
Name and surname or name of the innovator(s)
Fundacja Szansa dla Niewidomych
City where the innovator(s) reside or have their registered office
Warszawa
An institution supporting the development of innovation
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Inkubator Wielkich Jutra [2019-2023]
Contact for innovation
Fundacja Szansa dla Niewidomych:
Telefon: 22 51 010 99;
E-mail: szansa@szansadlaniewidomych.org;
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Szansa;
Adres korespondencyjny: ul. Chlubna 88, 03-051 Warszawa.
About innovation
The nature of innovation
Produkt
The problem that innovation answers
Insufficient support for dependent people and their relatives in performing daily household chores.
How does innovation work?
MobiAssistant is a smartphone app that supports dependants such as people with visual impairments, seniors or people with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities in performing daily household chores. The easy-to-use app is intended for people not proficient in using modern technologies.
The app facilitates the communication between the dependants and their assistants, caregivers and/or volunteers. With the built-in camera in their smartphones, the dependants can use voice messages or live videocalls, probably the most important feature of the app, to ask the relatives or volunteers for help.
Who is the innovation for?
–Dependent people (e.g. people with intellectual disabilities, seniors and people with visual impairment);
–Caregivers, volunteers and/or assistants of dependent people.
Who can implement the innovation?
–Caregivers, volunteers and/or assistants of dependent people;
–organizations and institutions supporting dependent people and their relatives;
–Trainers and social workers.
Products resulting from testing
A smartphone app;
– Improvements to the app after the trial stage: improved video and sound quality, availability of voice messages during calls with an assistant/caregiver.
Results achieved as a result of testing
By using MobiAssistant, the relatives of dependent people can leave them more often and be sure that they are safe. The dependants can also be supported remotely (e.g. via video call, voice message).
Assessment of innovation effectiveness
Zdecydowanie pozytywna
Has the innovation been selected for dissemination?
Tak
How to implement an innovation?
Who is necessary to implement innovations?
An assistant or caregiver of a dependent person;
–A dependent person.
What is necessary to implement innovations?
A smartphone with Android operating system