Accompania / Evo Progress

Steeve Descamps is currently Managing Director of Accompania. He was already at the head of an association specializing in supporting young people with disabilities. A recognized field professional, he practiced for 20 years in numerous medico-social structures. He specializes in supporting people with autism spectrum disorders or related disorders.

DE Medico Psychological Aid
Validation-Humanitude
"Convenient communication method for establishing and maintaining communication with disoriented people"

Autism and Apparent Disorders
TEACCH, ABA, PECS Program, Denver Model
Neuro Linguistic Programming
Palliative care
Snoezelen concept

The Accompania project provides innovative technological solutions

to the most vulnerable populations around the world. He was born from
the observation of many unsolved deficiencies occurring
feel in the specific areas of our
society: Education, health, Handicaps, refugees, people
elderly, ...

For example, in caring for people with
Autism spectrum disorders in France and more generally in the world, the current results observed are disappointing in terms of social inclusion (of the order of 0.5%). Our teams are working to develop a specialized support service combining the best recognized educational approaches with the best observation technologies, and this currently in 11 languages. The transversal objective related to all Accompania products and services: Democratize new technologies by adapting them to everyone's services.

Accompania solutions tend to resolve the adequacy between the lack of trained personnel in sufficient numbers and the growing number of people with disabilities or failures in different areas of life.

Regarding the field of people with autism spectrum disorders and apparent disorders, the most recent studies estimate that the prevalence rate of autistic people varies between 90 and 120 people out of 10,000, or about 1% of the population.

In the United States, approximately 1 in 40 children suffers from autism, according to a survey carried out in 2016. According to a study published on April 27, 2018 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Americans, the prevalence of autism would have reached 1 child in 59 in the United States in 2014, against 1 in 68 in 2008. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention also mentions the following figures:

A third (31%) of people with autism on an intellectual disability (ID), 44% on an average intelligence or higher than the average and a quarter would have a limited intelligence. Our project brings dematerialized responses therefore quickly duplicable in the face of these alarming figures which are constantly increasing.

Accompania develops virtual assistants, coded according to a positive reinforcement artificial intelligence.

In the case of people with autism spectrum disorders, our teams have developed the observation arms of Evo Progress, a "machine learning" model called "Evo Detection" based on couches of operational neural networks, trained to recognize emotions, objects, people, repetitive movements, ... in the form of games adapted to the service of the beneficiary, his family and professionals in the sector.

The subjectivity inherent in humans generated numerous errors of interpretation, damaging to the behavioral and emotional analysis of "extraordinary" people. In order to obtain a more objective analysis, with major potential results on the beneficiary and his family, a “deep learning” model based on the human neural system is therefore implemented: Digital layers of operational artificial neural networks, trained to recognize emotions, objects, people, specific movements, ...

This solution provides a response to beneficiaries and accompanying persons in the analysis of behaviors specific to so-called "extraordinary" people.

It opens the future field to information processing by "quantum" server, structured by machine learning with millions of entries of potential user information, ...

Accompania's virtual assistants are at the heart of the helping relationship: Supporting beneficiaries and caregivers, families or professionals.

Let's take the example of people suffering from autism spectrum disorders with the “Evo Progress” program: 2 game modes are developed

An autonomous mode: the beneficiary learns to access fundamental skills, at his own pace through many areas of life: Communication, exchanges, daily life, leisure, landmarks in time and space, ... relevant assistance for diverse ages and complex situations, maximizing social inclusion.

A reassuring virtual assistant: Evo Progress is a robot avatar
playful, unique, caring and always present, which can fit in the
pocket, ... It promotes links and the emergence of learning capacities,
where they called environmental changes (school, specialized services, help ...) are often experienced great difficulties for
beneficiaries, ...

- A "face-to-face" mode for families, professionals, ... Allowing personalized support, concrete assistance, rigorous and shareable monitoring.

Besides the objectivity of its artificial intelligence favoring the
prize of good decisions by the guide, it helps to foster links between the guides working in the beneficiary's environmental sphere.

Currently accessibility to education, social and professional integration, ... is very disparate in today's world. Accompania develops adapted assistants making the Human the center of its research and future devices. Our innovative projects using "Machine Learning" to serve the most vulnerable populations. For that, we take care of the devices democratized in the whole world which are the smartphones, tablets, ... They are today globally accessible for a large part of the disadvantaged populations, transforming these supports by real virtual assistants.

3 years ago, following a work accident during a behavioral “decompensation” of a person suffering from autism spectrum disorders in specialized service, I underwent a major surgical operation. I then took advantage of this time of forced immobility and convalescence to create Accompania. New to IT, I started by establishing a wordpress on a Celeron processor, giving birth to the online Leo Progress program. The increased demand and the daily suffering of helpers: families or professionals, led me to create a more optimal model in offline version downloadable in Android for tablet and smartphone. I am now developing different educational tools to make life easier for carers, families, professionals and beneficiaries

The helping relationship has been at the heart of my profession for over 20 years. The immense human suffering felt during this career has often given me an unpleasant feeling of helplessness in the face of so many individuals neglected by society, in many areas.

The Accompania project can now compensate, in part with its deployment worldwide. This international vision provides a very great motivation allied with a flawless determination to go after the large-scale humanitarian project, like a solidly anchored fixed idea which centers all my intention until it is fully insured.

We have already developed and put online the “Leo Progress” web application which represents the embryo of the Accompania generic virtual assistant prototype. Then we designed and published "Evo Progress" which is its most appropriate model for smartphones and tablets in an offline version that adapts to the needs of specialized establishments. Both are now supported on the “Detection Evo” market, including 3 operational Embedded Learning Machines. We have also published 3 innovative “Holokids” ranges of 53 episodes and continue to enrich them. We are also in the final development phase of "Lola Rescue", just as we have fully defined the architecture of "Hello Graam" and "Lea School". New virtual assistants like "Lolos"

3 collaborators joined me in order to adapt additional programs: Lola Rescue, Evo Progress and Evo detect were therefore finalized ... In parallel we had the needs of the people expected to be modified and certified (CE FCC) our virtual assistants. Capable of projecting large video surfaces and making the affected image interactive, being able to easily play, relax, ... We are continuing and finalizing several assistants for the elderly who are losing their autonomy, ... At the same time, we we have modified and certified (CE FCC) adapted equipment adapted to the needs of the people reached by our virtual assistants. Capable of projecting large video surfaces and making the affected image interactive, being able to easily play, relax, ... We are continuing and finalizing several assistants for the elderly who are losing their autonomy, ... At the same time, we we have modified and certified (CE FCC) adapted equipment adapted to the needs of the people reached by our virtual assistants. Capable of projecting large video surfaces and making the affected image interactive, being able to easily play, relax, ... We are continuing and finalizing several assistants for the elderly who are losing their autonomy, ...

Following a work accident and a forced immobilization, I was contacted by an association specialized in the accompaniment of children with autism spectrum disorders. They wanted a support program for parents and guardians, who can help to better understand behavioral approaches, personalized follow-up of the beneficiary,... New in IT, I therefore conceptualized Leo Progress in html version online, ... After numerous discussions and requests, we have been led to create Accompania and to develop an "online" site as well as numerous support programs for different audiences. The Evo Progress program was therefore structured in offline version, in 11 languages and available in stores (google, amazon) an associated program "Evo Detection", promoting the use of the camera tool, making the better existing, tools and analyzes a real weapon at the service of people with autism spectrum disorders, their families and professionals,... We are currently developing our other virtual assistants in extremely problematic areas: the elderly with loss of autonomy (Alzheimer type disorders),...

Evolving in these "specialized" services for 20 years, I could not bring myself to do nothing, ... We can improve the living conditions often too difficult for these people. This concerns us all, now we need your help...

Our virtual assistants can easily integrate into the daily lives of vulnerable people, whether in education, disability, autism spectrum disorders or aging, ... we can structure a lot of information to request and support beneficiaries, their families or professionals. Many technological tools can participate in this strategy aimed at putting people at the center of the system. The assessment of fundamental needs through the actions of specific games allows us to map the needs and capacities of each, this structuring allows us to enrich our data and develop relevant personalized statistical elements. In a second step, a server will also be used to compare, structure each track and game situation. These large amounts of information, in the world having to be processed quickly, a "quantum" machine learning programming is in progress.

L'expérience de la vie de chacun est un des éléments nécessaires à la  construction et l'évolution de nos sociétés,  il est le moteur de nos projets au service des personnes vulnérables, de leurs familles et professionnels accompagnateurs. Nous développons des assistants virtuels spécialisés dans l'accompagnement des personnes vulnérables et adaptons un matériel spécifique favorisant l'accès de tous aux services et besoins de chacun. 

We have just released the Evo Progress service which is only a few dozen sales. We are optimizing communication in order to expect 10,000 sales next year with a 5-year target of 80,000 sales on this service.

Our objectives are to work on the development of our virtual assistants: animations, gameplay, personalized analysis cameras ... We are also optimizing machine learning which can provide concrete answers to the beneficiary, ... Our material part will be enriched and we are working on the technical modifications of the Lazer touch: processor, ... as well as on the conceptualization of an autonomous and holographic robot, ...

The main obstacles identified are for us, financial, technical and commercial. We mainly need to optimize our teams to quickly finalize our services and make them even more efficient...

The main obstacles for us are:

The financier, Current solution: we are working on our personal funds, we are thinking about the arrival of an investor and we are awaiting the finalization and the results of the selected competitions.

The technique, Current Solution: we are developing our virtual assistants: graphics, animations,… machine learning is also being finalized on services linked to autistic disorders. We also optimize our hardware: Lazer touch to optimize its processor and graphics card, ...

Marketing, Current solution: weekly mailing phases are organized by our team, targeted emails Hospitals and specialized associations

 We work with Vicarvision. Noldus IT integrates our services with their "Face Reader" sdk module. We are also in contact with many hospitals, specialized services, parents and professional associations around the world, ...

Two economic models overlap around a common strategy of frugal development:

1. Company to organization

Accompania wants to be integrated into non-profit organizations (within the framework of Lola Rescue, Eva School, Evo Progress, Hello Graam ...) by setting up external partnerships (NGOs, public schools , specialized structure…) which will be essential to achieve the missions of these organizations. The digital offers for these organizations will be declined around recurring subscriptions.

2. Business to customer:

Given the global economic crisis looming on the horizon and in its wake the low-income populations, Accompania offers free services directly to consumers. They are innovative and easy to access to attract users and encourage them to pay for a more complete offer. Our strategy is simple: Offer customers the opportunity to use the service offered free of charge, but within a well-defined restrictive framework. The objective is to seduce with this free offer and encourage it to invest in the full and paid version of the service or associated equipment. It is thus possible to limit the functionality of the applications or to regulate their periods of use. What makes it possible to build a customer file is growing with word of mouth and the satisfaction of the first users. In the end, the goal is to offer these same customers paid "Premium" offers and suitable equipment. Our economically "frugal" approach, like working with partners from developing countries, then takes on its full meaning ...

We want to sell Evo Progress and Evo Detect on a global scale as a first step.

Then the whole range of Accompania “Assistant” as well as Specific equipment.

Our economically “frugal” approach, like working with partners from developing countries, then takes on its full meaning, thus authorizing this “Freemium” model while limiting costs. In addition, everything must be done to be able to attract new users, in particular to allow those already registered to invite their contacts or share their experience through social networks. This further reduces the cost of acquiring customers, while continuing to expand the user base.

We are currently funding these projects with our own funds.

Our economically “frugal” approach, like working with partners from developing countries, then takes on its full meaning, thus authorizing this “Freemium” model while limiting costs. In addition, everything must be done to be able to attract new users, in particular to allow those already registered to invite their contacts or share their experience through social networks. This further reduces the cost of acquiring customers, while continuing to expand the user base. then takes on its full meaning, thus authorizing this “Freemium” model while limiting costs. In addition, everything must be done to be able to attract new users, in particular to allow those already registered to invite their contacts or share their experience through social networks. This further reduces the cost of acquiring customers, while continuing to expand the user base. then takes on its full meaning, thus authorizing this “Freemium” model while limiting costs. In addition, everything must be done to be able to attract new users, in particular to allow those already registered to invite their contacts or share their experience through social networks. This further reduces the cost of acquiring customers, while continuing to expand the user base.

 For the year 2020, we first wish to consolidate our existing products:

- We want to redesign our website in order to group all of our users on it.

(Currently Leo Progress is on a dissociated server)

- We wish to enrich Evo Progress in substance and form:

Adding new functionalities like Machine Learning offers personalized project tracks and adding new 3D animations to our avatar while redesigning certain parts of the application.

- We want to recast LolaRescue with new 3D animations around a central kiosk.

- We want to recast and enrich the Holokids range.

- We want to start the development of Miss Maggy and Lea & Eva School.

- We wish to develop our marketing in order to make ourselves known worldwide.

- We want to recast our Lazer Touch with a newer processor and projector.

- We wish to achieve this by paying 5 to 7 full-time people.

The estimated cost is $ 800,000 in a high range.

Our work for 3 years has consisted in assembling and developing a modeling of virtual assistants at the service of vulnerable people. But we must be faster in our development, optimize our services ... Too much suffering persists in many specialized institutions in the world, whether in the accompaniment of autistic disorders and related disorders, in access to education for all, in the accompaniment of the elderly in loss of autonomy, disoriented, in all forms of physical, mental or social handicaps. Our expectations are therefore technical with the opportunity to be accompanied by the greatest professionals in the sectors, to finalize certain technical part on our hardware, optimization of the processor, of our machine learning models, ... But also to start work long term on the projection of a machine learning on quantum server, as I told you, the amount of information and their complex processing required significant work for 3 years and associated with certain team of MIT, could produce new revolutionary personalized support concepts serving the most vulnerable. If we want to quickly optimize our services

We want to be supported mainly in the fields of communication, marketing, finance and technology.

Communication, how to optimize our visibility on stores?

Marketing, how to structure our material packaging and distribute it in stores?

Finance, how can we help financially to finalize our products and services as soon as possible?

Technical, how to optimize our programs of detection and analysis of movements, interactions, ...? Machine learning?, ...

MIT seems to us the most operating in many fields and we wish to work with certain teams from this prestigious university and recognized research center. Some companies like Vicarvision are also in contact with us, but we want to optimize our partnerships step by step and maintain our independence.

Our current priorities:

A lot of work on the optimization of machine learning seems to be done on all of our virtual assistants.

Optimization of our cameras for detection and analysis of movements, interactions, emotions, constants, ...

Optimization of a robotic, holographic and autonomous assistant model, ...