Description
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.
Objet (selon la classification ISO des produits d'assistance)
- Produits d'assistance au dosage, à la distribution ou à la modification de la médication afin de garantir son usage approprié (ISO 04.19.04)
- Coussins et supports de siège pour l'intégrité des tissus (ISO 04.33.03)
- Standing frames and supports for standing (ISO 04.48.39)
- Orthèses crâniennes et rachidiennes (ISO 06.03)
- Orthèses du membre inférieur (ISO 06.12)
- Orthèses du pied et de la cheville (ISO 06.12.06)
- Prothèses du membre inférieur (ISO 06.24)
- Chaussures et bottes (ISO 09.03.42)
- Chaises percées (ISO 09.12.03)
- Cadres surélévateurs de WC (ISO 09.12.12)
- Produits d'incontinence à usage unique pour enfantsa (ISO 09.30)
- Chaises de douche avec ou sans roulettes (ISO 09.33.07)
- Cannes de marche (ISO 12.03.03)
- Cannes avec appui antébrachial (ISO 12.03.06)
- Cannes avec support d'avant-bras (ISO 12.03.09)
- Béquilles avec support axillaire (ISO 12.03.12)
- Cadres de marche (ISO 12.06.03)
- Déambulateurs (ISO 12.06.06)
- Guide canes (ISO 12.08.03)
- Fauteuils roulants à mains courantes bilatérales, manoeuvrés par les deux mains (ISO 12.22.03)
- Fauteuils roulants à propulsion électrique avec commande directionnelle manuelle directe (ISO 12.23.03)
- Fauteuils roulants à propulsion électrique avec commande directionnelle électronique (ISO 12.23.06)
- Eléments de propulsion pour fauteuils roulants manuels (ISO 12.24.09)
- Accessories for wheelchair seating (ISO 12.25)
- Fauteuils de transfert (ISO 12.27.04)
- Mains courantes et garde-corps (ISO 18.18.03)
- Barres et poignées d'appui fixes (ISO 18.18.06)
- Barres et poignées d'appui amovibles (ISO 18.18.10)
- Rampes portables (ISO 18.30.15)
- Lunettes et lentilles de contact (ISO 22.03.06)
- Lunettes grossissantes, loupes et systèmes de lentilles pour agrandissement (ISO 22.03.09)
- Systèmes vidéo agrandissant l'image (ISO 22.03.18)
- Appareils intra-auriculaires (ISO 22.06.12)
- Contours d'oreille (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)
- Dispositifs d'enregistrement et de restitution du son (ISO 22.18.03)
- Décodeurs vidéotext et d'émissions télévisées sous-titrées (ISO 22.18.21)
- Ensembles et tableaux de lettres et de symboles (ISO 22.21.03)
- Systèmes de dialogue (ISO 22.21.09)
- Logiciels permettant la communication face à face (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)
- Ordinateurs portables et PDA (Personal Digital Assistants) (ISO 22.33.06)
- Logiciels de sortie spéciaux (ISO 22.39.12)
- Assistive products for electronic orientation (ISO 22.45.03)
- Software for operating electrical devices (ISO 24.13.24)
