VICON

Virtual User Concept for Supporting Inclusive Design of Consumer Products and User Interfaces

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITAET BREMEN    more  Organization address address: Bibliothekstrasse 1 city: BREMEN postcode: 28359 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Margret Cognome: Grunwald Email: send email Telefono: +49 421 218 63521 Fax: +49 421 218 3319
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	3˙149˙394 €
EC contributo	2˙399˙956 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2009-4
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-01-01   -   2013-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITAET BREMEN  Organization address address: Bibliothekstrasse 1 city: BREMEN postcode: 28359 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Margret Cognome: Grunwald Email: send email Telefono: +49 421 218 63521 Fax: +49 421 218 3319	DE (BREMEN)	coordinator	0.00
2	ARCELIK A.S.  Organization address address: KARAAGAC, SUTLUCE BEYOGLU city: ISTANBUL postcode: 34445 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: H. Haluk Cognome: Gokmen Email: send email Telefono: +90 212 8722000 Fax: +90 212 8721287	TR (ISTANBUL)	participant	0.00
3	DORO AB  Organization address address: MAGISTRATVAGEN city: LUND postcode: 22643 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Jérôme Cognome: Arnaud Email: send email Telefono: +46 46 280 50 05 Fax: +46 46 280 50 01	SE (LUND)	participant	0.00
4	FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V  Organization address address: Hansastrasse city: MUNCHEN postcode: 80686 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Sidonie Cognome: Holborn Email: send email Telefono: +49 2241141968 Fax: +49 2241 1442386	DE (MUNCHEN)	participant	0.00
5	NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE BLIND OF IRELAND  Organization address address: WHITWORTH ROAD city: DUBLIN postcode: 9 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Mark Cognome: Magennis Email: send email Telefono: +353 71 914 7464 Fax: +353 1 830 7787	IE (DUBLIN)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

The needs of people with sensory or dexterity impairments are generally not well considered when designing user interfaces (UIs) for mainstream consumer products. The majority of existing interfaces and controls rarely fulfil the accessibility requirements of users suffering from visual, hearing, and dexterity impairments. It is also common for an individual to have multiple impairments than just one; this is particularly prevalent among older people. A combination of these impairments creates a far greater problem when interacting with a product than just one.nnnThe audience for VICON will be older people who have age-related (mild to moderate) impairments (age-related hearing loss, macular degeneration, etc) rather than those with profound impairments. This group of people do not want (or require) 'specialist' assistive devices but mainstream consumer products. However they fully benefit from consumer products, when their UIs incorporate accessible multimodal interaction capabilities providing good usability.nnIt is unrealistic for a mainstream manufacturer to have a detailed understanding of these issues and design appropriately, due to the complexities of singular and multiple age-related impairments. Therefore their inclusivity knowledge has to be supported from a third party solution.nnnVICON will conduct extensive user research to build an advanced Virtual User Model that will reflect the requirements of this group, when designing a product or UI. The Virtual User model will accompany the entire design process and support the client throughout, so that the needs of this audience are address at every stage; conceptualisation, product and UI specification, virtual testing and prototype evaluation.