Programme: Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2016 & 2015

Course: MT2556

Corporate partner: Blue Science Park

Challenge: To keep seniors healthy longer and keep them out of the homecare system for longer by looking at solutions outside of the medical field.

Solution: Our solution is called Cooking at a distance, and is based on having cooking classes over the internet once a week where a group of users comes together to cock dinner and eat together. The solution is based on a Service system where the service are websites with information about meetings, cooking classes, tips and tricks that users can share with each other as well as having food measured and delivered for the specific week's receipts.

Impact: This solution will allow seniors to keep their routines and be less dependent on homecare which puts strain on our healthcare system. Seniors will be engaged to keep up social interactions, thus improving their psycological health which in turn can have a possitive effect on the physical health.

Prototypes: The prototypes made in the form of test with users where we had cooking sessions with them. The final prototype explored both the cooking aspect but also the food delivery system where we simulated how delivering pre packaged food would work with the cooking experience.

Quotes from sponsor/partner: The overall feedback was that it was a interesting and fun idea that we should keep on exploring as they feel there could be a real need for a solution like this.

Project team:

• Casper Berg, Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2016
• Joakim Gylleneiden, Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2016
• Eric Liljedahl, Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2016
• André Nyström, Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2015