ASCIT

The project envisions a solution that helps to establish high quality involvement of long term sick children in a communication based scenario between the place where the child stays/has been moved and the original classroom/school setting. The communication provisions build on audio/video links and are set in a user friendly user interface (e.g., based on 3D techniques). Most ICT solutions that now exist for these kinds of problems are too expensive and thus can't be distributed on a large scale. Within the scope of the ASCIT project it is important to search for an affordable solution. In other words: a combination of quality requirements and economical requirements is indispensable.

The ASCIT project combines the expertise of 4 industrial partners, 3 institutions and 6
research entities. The expertise field covers: hardware design, connectivity, broadband
connectivity, interface design, usability research, educational design, representation of nonprofit patient organisations, user needs analysis, and defining and solving legal issues. The main research activities of the project can be summarized as follows:

An inventory of concrete user needs of long term sick children; parents, teachers;
medical staff and intermediary organizations; based on task analysis and user
observation;
A state-of-the art about existing ICT-based solutions for long term sick children;
A functional analysis of instructional processes and a description of the possible
instruction scenarios;
An inventory of legal problems and implications;
Study of the impact of economical considerations on design/development ecisions;
A summary of the technical specifications that are required for the 'proof of concept';
Implementation and demonstration of the 'proof of concept'.

More information about home care projects, is to be found on the following website: http://www.smartcareplatform.eu/