Talk / Health & Wellbeing
Cognitive empowerment through eye-tracking technology for children with disabilities
Alessandro Masserdotti
Dotdotdot together with OpenDot Fab Lab designs new healthcare solutions based on human-centered
approach and co-design to improve the lives of people with disabilities by generating inclusive social
innovation.
Nowadays, designers have new technologies and methodologies at their disposal that could definitely innovating care and health, bettering the quality of life of millions living with disabilities.
Co-design and human centered approach allow us to take care of each other, as people, facilitating processes that involve designers, makers, therapists, doctors, and people with disabilities and their caregivers.
The Milan-based Interaction Design studio Dotdotdot and its Fab Lab OpenDot developed two solutions based on eye-tracking technology to promote the communication, interaction and cognitive empowerment of children with disabilities.
During the talk we will present the developing process of two projects. Amelie – Eye Tracking Suite, the world’s first open source eye-tracking suite for girls with Rett syndrome co-designed with AIRETT, its families and therapists, developers and designers. And TOP! Together To Play the Applied Videogames suite co-designed with TOG Foundation based on eye-tracking system, that promotes the rehabilitation of children with complex neurological problems and allows the collection of data for a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the rehabilitation process.
About the speaker
Alessandro Masserdotti
Interaction designer and developer, Alessandro is the co-founder of the milanese Interaction Design studio Dotdotdot (2004) and its Fab Lab OpenDot (2014). He studied Philosophy of Science in Bologna, during which he immediately started to research and experiment with photography, video and programming. Since 2002 he has been working in the field of digital and sensitive environments, exploring and designing new forms of interaction between man and technology.
In recent years, thanks to a series of great collaborations of Dotdotdot and OpenDot with centres of excellence in the medical field, he specialises in innovative projects of UXD for healthcare, ranging from the co-design of software for patients to the Digital Service Design for buildings such as a paediatric hospice.