Last Thursday, April 26, i2HealthSantPau have hosted a Living Lab activity for the European AAL project COM'ON.
The
aim of COM'ON project is to develop an IT solution in order to resolve
elderly mobility into cities in a holistic approach (planning, sharing
and on journey help services), which will cover all available public
transport options, in order to help older people maintain their outdoor
mobility for as long as possible.
The participants during the workshop
The activity, conducted by
Jordi Colobrans (from i2CAT Living Lab Unit) and supported by Mie Bjerre
and Thomas Hammer-Jakobsen (from Copenhagen Living Lab),
have involved 11 senior people with the objective to discover their
concerns and proposed solutions in urban mobility through the use of
Lego bricks. This innovative approach based on Lego brick, demonstrated
the extraordinary connection between our hands and our mind. By using
the hands we get connected to our unknown knowledge and some researchers
refers to it as: ‘thinking with our hands’.
All the participants in the Living Lab experience
Finally,
we would like to thanks the participation of ethnographers Noemi Perez,
Jaume Durall, Anna Capitán, Marc Aguilar, Josep Benavent and Vladimir Reinhardt for
their work and all the participants for the great experience they
provided.
