Beschrijving
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.
Onderwerp (volgens de ISO classificatie van hulpmiddelen)
- Hulpmiddelen voor het meten, doseren en bewerken van medicatie i.f.v. het correcte gebruik ervan (ISO 04.19.04)
- Antidecubituszitkussens en -onderleggers (ISO 04.33.03)
- Standing frames and supports for standing (ISO 04.48.39)
- Romp- en schedelorthesen (ISO 06.03)
- Orthesen voor de onderste ledematen (ISO 06.12)
- Enkel-voetorthesen (ISO 06.12.06)
- Prothesen voor de onderste ledematen (ISO 06.24)
- Schoenen en laarzen (ISO 09.03.42)
- Toiletstoelen (ISO 09.12.03)
- Verhoogde toiletzittingen op frame (ISO 09.12.12)
- Hulpmiddelen voor absorberen van urine en ontlasting (ISO 09.30)
- Douchestoelen met of zonder wielen (ISO 09.33.07)
- wandelstokken en krukken (ISO 12.03.03)
- Elleboogkrukken (ISO 12.03.06)
- Voorarmkrukken (ISO 12.03.09)
- Okselkrukken (ISO 12.03.12)
- Looprekken (ISO 12.06.03)
- Rollators (ISO 12.06.06)
- Guide canes (ISO 12.08.03)
- Tweezijdig aangedreven rolstoel met hoepels (ISO 12.22.03)
- Elektronische rolstoelen met directe manuele besturing (ISO 12.23.03)
- Elektronische rolstoelen met elektronische sturing (ISO 12.23.06)
- Hulpmotoren voor manuele rolstoelen (vervanging van het hoepelen) (ISO 12.24.09)
- Accessories for wheelchair seating (ISO 12.25)
- Transportstoelen (ISO 12.27.04)
- Handsteunen en leuningen (ISO 18.18.03)
- Vaste handgrepen en beugels (ISO 18.18.06)
- Afneembare handgrepen en handstangen (ISO 18.18.10)
- Verplaatsbare hellingbanen (ISO 18.30.15)
- Brillen en contactlenzen (ISO 22.03.06)
- Loepen, lenzen en lenssystemen voor vergroting (ISO 22.03.09)
- Beeldschermloepen (ISO 22.03.18)
- Hoortoestellen, in het oor gedragen (ISO 22.06.12)
- Hoortoestellen achter oor gedragen (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)
- Geluidopname- en -afspeelapparatuur (ISO 22.18.03)
- Decoders voor gebruik van teletext (ISO 22.18.21)
- Letter- en/of symbolensets en -borden (ISO 22.21.03)
- Communicatoren (ISO 22.21.09)
- Communicatiesoftware (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)
- Draagbare computers (lap-top) en PDA (ISO 22.33.06)
- Software voor genereren van speciale uitvoer (ISO 22.39.12)
- Assistive products for electronic orientation (ISO 22.45.03)
- Software for operating electrical devices (ISO 24.13.24)
