The HEARMEFEELME project aimed at developing ICT-based systems that provide elderly people with visual impairments an easy, simple and intuitive way to access information and digital services in their home environment. The medication management service concept covered the service chain from the Pharmacy to the home of the vision impaired older user. The results of the project tackles the problem of identifying objects when the user has problems with their eyesight, and the user interfaces of traditional computing devices are challenging because of decreased vision and hand-eye coordination. The project originally concentrated only on medication management, but one of the results was expanded to cover audio tagging of any objects. Estimated time to market: 2 years.

http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/hear-me-feel-me/

• Western Europe and North America

• Older persons
• People with disabilities

The HearMeFeelMe project aims at developing ICT-based systems that provide elderly people with visual impairments an easy, simple and intuitive way to access information and digital services in their home environment, allowing them to (1) have equal opportunities to participate in all aspects of the society, (2) maintain their independency, avoiding dependency on others in order accessing information and services, and (3) improve the quality of life and individual wellbeing of the elderly.