- Project Summary
- Funding
- Project Partners
- Project Team
- Contact
Project Summary
This project will explore innovative ways to integrate technologies that assess people’s daily living activities within built environments with the goals of improving safety and facilitating higher degrees of independent living. “Smart homes” are increasingly a part of everyday life, with technologies that monitor security, ventilation, temperature, and lighting. Smart home technologies are developing quickly and reducing in cost, presenting an opportunity to serve the needs of persons with disabilities.
We will ask how technology can be used both to detect problems that arise in the home and to identify risk factors early to prevent problems before they occur. How do a person’s activities reveal their wellness status? How can the monitoring of daily activities be used to flag existing and developing health issues and facilitate early interventions?
Funding
The Accessibility Institute applied for and received $450,000 in funding over three years from Accessibility Standards Canada through the Advancing Accessibility Standards Research Program.
Project Partners
- Carleton University, Faculty of Engineering and Design
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The Carleton University Faculty of Engineering and Design is one of the nation’s leading institutions in the study and research of engineering, architecture, industrial design, and information technology, home to a comprehensive platform of teaching programs and world class research. The faculty is based in Carleton University, a public educational institution in Ottawa.
- Best Buy Health
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Best Buy Health is a national corporation, a subsidiary of Best Buy Canada, with a mission to enrich and save lives through technology and meaningful connections. The proposed project is closely connected to their work employing technology to serve senior living residents and support independent living.
- Bruyère Research Institute
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Driven by learning, research and innovation, the Bruyère Research Institute mission is to lead an integrated system of care that maximizes quality of life and health potential. Bruyère is an academic health care organization based in Ottawa with a national focus. The proposed project is closely connected to their core work in aging and rehabilitation, medically complex, palliative, residential and primary care.
- The Dementia Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County
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The Dementia Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County is a regional non-profit organization that provides compassionate support, tailored coaching, and practical education for everyone impacted by dementia while building a dementia inclusive community. The proposed project is closely connected to their work supporting people with dementia to live independently, safely, and well in the right place.
- Independent Living Canada
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Independent Living Canada is a non-profit national disability organization which advocates that attitudinal and environmental barriers in society create disabling conditions and are rather the result of living in a society designed by and for non-disabled persons. The proposed project is closely connected to their work championing accessibility of the built environment. Properly designed and accessible housing is necessary for safe and sustainable independent living.
- Municipal Retirees Organization of Ontario (MROO)
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Municipal Retirees Organization of Ontario (MROO) is a regional, independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that speaks on behalf of all Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) retirees. They provide services to 30,000 members and growing. Over the past several years, their advocacy has focused on elder life/lives care and aging in place.
This project will also engage and leverage the Canadian Accessibility Network’s (CAN) knowledge pool.
Project Team
Boris Vukovic, Co-PI
Rafik Goubran, Co-PI
Bruce Wallace, Research Advisor
Brady Laska, Research Lead
Laura Ault, Project Manager
Contact
For inquiries about this project, please contact Boris Vukovic.
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