WorkingAge

This project will have an impact on enhanced health and safety working conditions and quality of life of older persons at work compared to the current situation, enabling older persons to be able to contribute at an appropriate level for a longer period. The WA project will create five innovative algorithms (Gesture, Face, Eyes, Voice, Neurometrics), which will be aggregated into a contextualized user model to infer user?s emotional state and evaluate the stress and strain level. This system can be integrated with other health, social, location and working parameters for distributed service and connection with emergency services. By understanding the causes for long-term stress and workload of employees and its impact on sickness and rest periods, the WA project will aim to create a set of rules that enable adaptation of the changing status of the workers aged >45 to their working/living environment, as well as create a set of tips and alerts that will increase support of independent living. The objective is to lead to a new application for companies to demonstrate that work is carried out respecting basic health and safety conditions. The system will be evaluated by assessing the improvement of the working environment, health status, independence, functional capacity, physical, cognitive, psychological and social well-being of 70 users (aged >45 through long term tests). This provides evidence on user-centred design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human-computer interaction, and user acceptance.