Analysis Responses

Detection of sitting posture using hierarchical image composition and deep learning

Category: Other

Human posture detection allows the capture of the kinematic parameters of the human body, which is important for many applications, such as assisted living, healthcare, physical exercising and rehabilitation. This task can greatly benefit from recent development in deep learning and computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel deep recurrent hierarchical network (DRHN) model based on MobileNetV2 that allows for greater flexibility by reducing or eliminating posture detection problems related to a limited visibility human torso in the frame, i.e., the occlusion problem.

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DIANA (Digital Intelligent Assistant for Nursing Applications)

Category: Projects

The project DIANA improves the life and safety of mild to severely cognitive impaired persons 65 while assisting nurses and care givers by providing novel solutions for action and behaviour recognition. The enabling technology will be AI powered 3D sensors with embedded analytic algorithms. The metadata provided by these sensors will be seamlessly integrated into the nurses working routine and will free valuable time for personalized care. For mild to medium impaired persons these data will also be used to provide a virtual assistant which can guide through certain activities of daily living. A first activity where this will be tested focuses on toileting (personal hygiene), where hardly any technologies exist. DIANA has the unique goal of increasing people's autonomy and digitizing nursing assistance in this area.

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Digital Health Service for Identification of Frailty Risk Factors in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Category: User Experience

Study protocol of a nationwide multicentric study in seven Italian regions aimed at assessing the effectiveness of a digitally supported approach for the early screening of frailty risk factors in community-dwelling older adults.

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Dreamlike Neighbourhood

Category: User Experience

Older adults group in neighbourhoods to exchange, learn and support each other

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Educational game - Building Inclusive environments for all generations

Category: User Experience

In this game the player meets 5 characters who face daily issues in life while they are pregnant, having mobility problems, suffering from dementia, suffering from adolescent identity issues and being a single parent. The aim of the game is to make every citizen happy by offering solutions for inclusion.

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Educational game on Dementia care

Category: User Experience

In the scope of iDO, an innovative game was designed to work around the standard ineffectiveness of traditional training methodologies for direct care workers. The game runtime, complexity and intrusiveness have been modelled and designed from the ground-up around the requirements and needs indicated by direct care workers, people with dementia, family carers, dementia experts.

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Educational game on Dementia care

Category: User Experience

In the scope of iDO, an innovative game was designed to work around the standard ineffectiveness of traditional training methodologies for direct care workers. The game runtime, complexity and intrusiveness have been modelled and designed from the ground-up around the requirements and needs indicated by direct care workers, people with dementia, family carers, dementia experts.

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Educational game on Handling lower back pain

Category: User Experience

An innovative game was designed to work around the standard ineffectiveness of traditional learning approaches for mature workers. The required data was modelled and designed from the ground-up around the requirements and needs indicated by mature workers with low back pain and experts in the field.

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Elderly University

Category: User Experience

Encourage senior citizens to be more active in working and social life, Akdeniz University in the Mediterranean city of Antalya has inaugurated an education program called Renewal University, targeting people over the age of 60. The program, which offers courses in sociology, psychology, biology, technology, chemistry, agriculture, pharmacology, medicine, history, philosophy, maintenance and cooking, takes aim at the cognitive renewal of these students.

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ELSA: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Category: Data Sets

The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) collects data from people aged over 50 to understand all aspects of ageing in England. More than 18,000 people have taken part in the study since it started in 2002, with the same people re-interviewed every two years. ELSA collects information on people's physical and mental health, wellbeing, finances and attitudes around ageing and how these change over time.

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