Descripción
The ASPREX project investigated the feasibility of a machine-reasoning system which can help identify the assistive products that can best meet the individual needs by considering each person’s goals, circumstances, type of difficulties, level of ability, and life environment. The assumption was that such a system - if well designed and driven by reliable data - could greatly favor informed and responsible choices of assistive products, by increasing task-shifting of AT provision to the non-specialist workforce at community level; and by increasing awareness about the complexity of the AT assessment and selection process, the risks associated to wrong choices and the competences needed case by case. The project led to the development of an AI-based prototype called "Assistive Product Explorer" (ASPREX). The ASPREX has been kept live on the Web for three Years (2022-2024) for testing purposes; now it is no longer online and will be probably resumed within future projects.
Within the ASPREX project, an innovative model was developed to represent knowledge about assistive products. Based on this model, a knowledge base was generated for the ASPREX system, including over 2400 knowledge rules related to 65 product categories belonging to the APL (Assistive Product Priority List) of the World Health Organization. The knowledge base can be also read as a set of fact-sheets that can useful in clinical practice and for educational purposes. Each product fact-sheet is composed of 15 chapters (each related to a knowledge-rule cluster as established by the model): 1) product identification data and overall description; 2) possible configuration variants; 3) optional components; 4) product goals; 5) indicated impairments and 6) contraindicated impairments; 7) indicated and 8) contraindicated environments; 9) other indicated and 10) contraindicated factors; points to consider in 11) selection, 12) fitting, 13) use and 14) maintenance/follow-up; and 15) sources/references. The model has shown able to represent knowledge about any categories of assistive products. All the fact sheets are available for download from the SIVA and the EASTIN Web Portals.
Tema (de acuerdo con la clasificación ISO de porductos de apoyo)
- Productos de apoyo para dosificar, dispensar o modificar la medicación para asegurar su correcta utilización (ISO 04.19.04)
- Cojines de asiento y protectores destinados a preservar la integridad de los tejidos (ISO 04.33.03)
- Standing frames and supports for standing (ISO 04.48.39)
- Ortesis craneales y raquídeas (ISO 06.03)
- Ortesis de miembro inferior (ISO 06.12)
- Ortesis de tobillo y pie (ISO 06.12.06)
- Prótesis de miembro inferior (ISO 06.24)
- Zapatos y botas (ISO 09.03.42)
- Sillas con orinal (ISO 09.12.03)
- Alzas para inodoro montadas sobre una estructura con patas (ISO 09.12.12)
- Productos de apoyo para la absorción de orina y heces (ISO 09.30)
- Shower chairs with and without wheels (ISO 09.33.07)
- Bastones y cachavas (ISO 12.03.03)
- Muletas de codo (ISO 12.03.06)
- Muletas de antebrazo (ISO 12.03.09)
- Muletas axilares (ISO 12.03.12)
- Andadores (ISO 12.06.03)
- Andadores con tres o más ruedas (ISO 12.06.06)
- Guide canes (ISO 12.08.03)
- Sillas de ruedas bimanuales propulsadas por aros (ISO 12.22.03)
- Sillas de ruedas de propulsión eléctrica y dirección manual (ISO 12.23.03)
- Sillas de ruedas de propulsión eléctrica y dirección eléctrica (ISO 12.23.06)
- Unidades de propulsión para sillas de ruedas manuales (ISO 12.24.09)
- Accessories for wheelchair seating (ISO 12.25)
- Sillas de traslado (ISO 12.27.04)
- Pasamanos y barandillas de apoyo (ISO 18.18.03)
- Barras y asideros de apoyo fijos (ISO 18.18.06)
- Barras y asideros de apoyo desmontables (ISO 18.18.10)
- Rampas portátiles (ISO 18.30.15)
- Gafas y lentes de contacto (ISO 22.03.06)
- Gafas, lentes y sistemas de lentes para aumento (ISO 22.03.09)
- Sistemas de vídeo para aumentar la imagen (ISO 22.03.18)
- Audífonos intra-auriculares (ISO 22.06.12)
- Audífonos retro-auriculares (ISO 22.06.15)
- Sound transmission systems for hearing aids (ISO 22.06.25)
- Manual Braille writing equipment (ISO 22.13.27)
- Typewriters (ISO 22.13.30)
- Portable note-taking devices for Braille (ISO 22.13.36)
- Grabadoras y reproductores de audio (ISO 22.18.03)
- Decodificadores para videotexto/teletexto (ISO 22.18.21)
- Tableros y juegos de letras y de símbolos (ISO 22.21.03)
- Comunicadores (ISO 22.21.09)
- Software para comunicación cara a cara (ISO 22.21.12)
- Devices mainly for speech communication (ISO 22.24.07)
- Clocks and timepieces (ISO 22.28.03)
- Calendars and timetables (ISO 22.28.06)
- Memory support products (ISO 22.28.12)
- Signalling devices (ISO 22.29.03)
- Personal emergency alarm systems (ISO 22.29.06)
- Localization and tracking systems (ISO 22.29.12)
- Ordenadores portátiles y PDA (ISO 22.33.06)
- Software de salida especial (ISO 22.39.12)
- Assistive products for electronic orientation (ISO 22.45.03)
- Software for operating electrical devices (ISO 24.13.24)
