About the session
This is the story of how one tech design business set about the task of addressing a major challenge for elderly people – the ability to stay connected and communicate with family, friends and healthcare professionals.
Based in El Prat de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain, digital design business Adaptive City created ‘Familyar’ with elderly users in mind, helping them to avoid feeling lonely and socially isolated.
The mobile and tablet-friendly application enables users to make video calls, send text, photo or video-based messages and schedule appointments and activities.
Filmed at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona in February 2016, Adaptive City’s founder and lead designer, Andreas Massara explains how his own father’s situation helped to inspire the creation of the ‘Familyar’ application.
Working to engineer a better world and Inspire, inform and influence action on demographic challenge and applied technologies, ‘People-Centred Solutions’ is a series of video shorts curated by the Institution of Engineering and Technology and forms part of its thought leadership on 'Changing Population'.
For further information visit www.theiet.org/changing-population
