Interaction design in support of visual impairment rehabilitators: a tool for evaluating and intervening in the Ad'agio project

The paper focuses on the “Ad'agio protocol”, an EU-funded project aimed at designing a digital tool for visual rehabilitators. The goal was to develop a tool that would enable home inspection of elderly people with visual impairments and have as output solutions to secure the apartment and enable independent aging. Through the work of a multidisciplinary team, made up of designers, rehabilitators and architects, a model apartment was set up with all accessibility standards in order to identify dangerous elements of the home environment. The second part of the work was based on the design of the tool, i.e., an interactive checklist with possible critical elements and their respective solutions. Then the output of the system with suggestions is sent to the elderly or their caregivers to enable them to adjust the apartment safely and with respect to their needs.