HRC Open Innovation Challenge 2026

27 May – 4 Jun 2026 | Barcelona, Spain

ChallengeUpdated on 13 April 2026

Digital Solution for Accessibility Assessment and Assistive Device Planning

Terapeuta Ocupacional at Guttmann, Hospital de Neurorehabilitació

Barcelona, Spain

About

A Virtual/Augmented Reality solution that allows for the simple digitization of a patient's actual home to plan modifications and remove physical barriers prior to discharge. The objective is to reduce on-site visits and make necessary assessments significantly more efficient by providing reliable preliminary data (measurements, layout, and potential barriers) to accelerate decision-making and avoid unnecessary iterations.

Key Features:

  • Mobile-Friendly & Intuitive: Designed as an accessible mobile app with step-by-step guidance, making it exceptionally easy to use for patients and their families, while serving as a robust tool for healthcare professionals.

  • Precise Measurement & AR Simulation: Enables users to accurately measure doors, hallways, bathrooms, turning radii, heights, and uneven surfaces. It uses Augmented Reality to simulate real-life scenarios, such as verifying if a wheelchair can fit through a doorway, if it can maneuver inside a bathroom, or if there is sufficient space for safe transfers and the placement of assistive devices.

  • Personalized Patient Profiles: Incorporates detailed user profiles regarding the patient's specific physical and/or cognitive capacities to fully personalize the proposed adaptations.

  • AI-Powered Recommendations: Features AI assistance to suggest potential adaptations, prioritizing them by clinical impact, cost, and complexity. It generates recommendations perfectly aligned with accessibility regulations and best practices.

  • Professional Reporting: Culminates in a comprehensive final report generated for the Occupational Therapist, facilitating seamless coordination among the clinical team, the user, and home adaptation or assistive device providers.

Topic

  • Decision support software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Big Data
  • VR/AR/VM
  • Computer vision
  • Design/User interface/ User Experience

Organisation

Guttmann, Hospital de Neurorehabilitació

Others

Barcelona & Badalona, Spain

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