Project: Navigation Support for Older Travellers with Memory Decline

Acronym	NavMem (Reference Number: aal-2011-4-122)
Duration	01/10/2012 - 01/01/2016
Project Topic	In 2050 about 30-35 Mio EU citizens will suffer from cognitive impairments, such age-related memory declines or mild cognitive impairments. These impairments are often correlated with difficulties in orientation and navigation, which occur as disorientation events. People that experienced these events often develop the fear of getting lost and consequently stay at home. Commercial systems to guide people that are lost exist (such as navigation systems for mobile devices) but they do not hold the balance between providing support, but engaging & avoiding patronizing their users. We aim at countering the fear of getting lost, by making it manageable: disorientation events will be detected and support can be obtained from the system or relatives via phone. The technology to be employed will be based on smartphones, which are widely available and therefore lower the barrier of market distribution. Navigation information based on landmarks will be provided by NAVTEQ’s MapTP API, Voice and Natural Guidance. Building up on the results of the EU-funded projects ENABLED, MICOLE, and HAPTIMAP we will provide multimodal cues (vision, hearing, touch) to ensure that navigation information is provided in a comprehensible and accessible way. To overcome the fear of getting lost a “safety line” alarm system will be evolved based on the results of the E-ADEPT EU project. NAVEVO will create revenue from commercializing the navigation application via existing distribution channels (e.g. Nokia OVI store). NAVTEQ will create revenue from licensing navigation services and using the project results to acquire new customers for these services. ASTANDO will create revenue from working with municipalities and cities by adapting the alarm system to their needs. End users will be continuously integrated in the initial analyses (WP1) and the development (WP2). Further, a 12 months field trial with 30 participants will ensure that the results are usable by the potential end users.
Network	AAL
Call	Call 4 – Mobility

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
	Astando AB		Sweden
	FUNKA Nu AB		Sweden
	Navevo		United Kingdom
	NAVEX Limited		United Kingdom
	NAVTEQ B.V.		Netherlands
	OFFIS Institute for Information Technology		Germany
	Roessingh Research and Development		Netherlands
	Siemens IT Solutions and Services GmbH		Germany
	Swedish Stroke Association		Sweden
	University of Lund		Sweden