Technology enabling social interaction
Komp Pro is what we call warm technology, which facilitates social contact between healthcare professionals, the end-user, and their family and friends.
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Komp Pro provides healthcare organisations the opportunity to
- Effective follow-up of health needs through video calls
- Support self-management through messages and reminders
- Enable independent life to live longer at home
- Support communication between healthcare professionals, relatives and the end-user
- Enable social interaction with family and friends, preventing involuntary loneliness and promote digital inclusion
Komp Pro consists of three parts
Komp Hardware for the end-user – a single-button computer designed for ease of use
Web portal for healthcare professionals
- End-to-end encrypted communication through
- Messages
- Pictures
- Reminders
- Video calls
- Customization of a daily orientation clock
- A secure fleet management within the organization
Family app - enables interaction between the end-user, family and friends
A highly intuitive interface
The hardware is designed for those who may find it difficult to use modern technology, like touch technology:
- Turn the button and it's on
No menus or possibilities for errors. Works with trembling hands - Clear sound and high volume
- Large screen with clear contrasts
Works for up to 80% visual impairment* - Automatic video calls and pictures
Designed for those with cognitive and physical impairments - Discreet camera and microphone
*Source: Internal testing, 2022 Badawy et al., 2022 Oslo Metropalitan University
Research together with healthcare personnel show that
- Social contact and quality of life increase through social interaction via Komp Pro
- Elderly feel more included in the family’s everyday life, and vice versa
- Komp Pro contributes to better conversations, involvement, and care between the end-user and healthcare professionals
- The end-user get a feeling of independence and mastery, increased control and participation
Simplicity and accessibility make Komp Pro a powerful communications solution for improving social interaction, digital inclusion and preventing loneliness.
