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Winners in Developer challenge Smart support for better life
January 25th, 2012 by Adnan Yafi
At last, the exciting competition ”Developer challenge: Smart support for better life” has come to an end and the arrangers have announced the winners. And Screen Interaction was one of the three winners! Our contribution ”Aktiv Assist” describes a concept which users can create personalized video instructions in their own environment according to their own needs.
Briefly about the competition:
The main goal was to encourage developers to create good and intuitive mobile application that can serve as support in the daily lives of people with cognitive disabilities. The jury has placed great emphasis on how the application can provide support in everyday life for people with cognitive impairments. The jury criteria were:
• Idea
• Ingenuity and innovation
• Realizability
• Ease of use
• Functionality that satisfies the end user needs
• Design
The competition was arranged by Almega/IT&Telekomföretagen, Flexenita, Hjälpmedelsinstitutet, Innovationsbron, Kista Mobile & Multimedia Network, Post- och telestyrelsen, Tidningen Mobil och Stiftelsen för internet infrastruktur.
The team:
Adnan Yafi , Interaction designer
Anne Vold Hellman, Visual designer
Reza Assareh, Concept and UX
The jury’s motivation:
The contribution from Screen Interaction creates, on a visual exciting way, a clear and concrete instruction to independently manage important daily activities.
Here follows an interview with Reza and Adnan from Screen Interaction.
