WayFiS

Way Finding Seniors

The WayFiS project aims at improving the capability of seniors to plan, manage and execute travel and transportation projects at their own discretion by solving the problems elderly people cope with when trying to move in unknown outdoor environments, thus enabling them to take part in the self-serve society. The problems that are approached are mainly related to the access to information, sight problems, walking/motor abilities, cognitive abilities, associated health limitations, scarce availability of proper information (regarding transport adaptations, stations/stops accessibilities) etc...Therefore, the target group of the project is constituted by elderly people (in the age range of 70-85) not familiar with ICT and with technologies in general, usually living alone and with health limitations due to aging. The innovation of WayFiS is the development of a personalized way finding service for elderly people (considering both public transport and paths by foot) focused on the objective of making the elderly feel healthy-well and safe (not technology centered) and that takes into account their specific limitations and healthy habits, with the challenge of aggregating a huge amount of information from different sources and including them into one mobile service with an intuitive interface (voice-touch-write).