Accessible Balance and Falls Prevention Exercise Tool Across the Continuum of Car

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Objective: This Phase 1 SBIR proposes to optimize the interface and interaction of a digital translation of Evidence Based Falls Prevention programs for use across the continuum of care and community living that affordseasy adoption, adherence and monitoring of falls prevention exercises for all stakeholders including those with limited technical experience. Purpose: Specifically, this proposal describes how we plan to obtain the stakeholder input required to a) designan accessible exercise interface that will be used by clients, clinicians, caregivers and support staff across all levels of independence and care assistance, and b) design an accessible WebApp for selecting, tracking and reporting adherence to the exercises for use by all stakeholders. Phase II will focus on execution of the findings initiated in this Phase I and to ascertain a path to commercialization. Approach: We will employ our trans-disciplinary, user-centered, agile game design approach to deve