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Outcome of first project year: Touchpoints and Engine concept
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Stating a key achievement of the first project year, the REACH consortium has developed and detailed a holistic conceptual solution, the “Touchpoints and Engine concept”, based on an in-depth analysis of the four REACH use case settings, and the identification and inclusion of consortium internal and consortium external stakeholders (elderly, care personnel, insurances, etc.) in the system architecture development process. This conceptual solution fully reflects REACH’s “Product-Service-System” value proposition. 5 physical touchpoints will function each as data gathering and intervention devices, which are bound together by cross-sectional, integrated engine (i.e. platform) functionality...
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First REACH public deliverables available for download
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Please click the following links to view and download the public deliverables and reports of REACH...
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Progress made in REACH with regard to Health Data Analytics and Recommendation Engine
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The consortium will begin with an in-depth analysis of requirements involved in the deployment in a naturalistic use-case environment in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in Denmark. Project-internal sub-groups will approach the analysis from a different area of expertise and focus (e.g., Business and Economic perspective; Data Analytics and Recommender Systems perspective; Motivation and Acceptance perspective; Sensing and Monitoring, Rehabilitation Technology perspective). Then key aspects of REACH will be tested in controlled laboratory environments to ascertain the proper operation of the subsystems in development. Following successful laboratory experimentation, the consortium partners will deploy the resulting prototypes in Pilot use-case environments to further develop and test-deploy REACH’s verified sub-systems in use-case relevant scenarios...
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Detailing and decomposition of the testing approach
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Based on testing involving users, Touchpoints, and data gathered, a lifestyle recommender system is developed to help senior adults with sedentary habits to become more active using the REACH Touchpoints. In that context methods are developed to cluster existing users based on how a given intervention of behaviour change affects their current habits modelled as time series data. For example, an intervention may cause some users to increase their level of activeness (they are called responders), some users to do the opposite (non-responders), and some to improve their activeness only temporarily (temporarily responders). In this manner, every user is characterized by a readiness score indicating how likely he/she is to respond to the proposed intervention. When a new user arrives, the system will be able to propose a behaviour change adapted to his readiness score similar to a user that the system has already modelled, thus avoiding the risk of suggesting something harmful to him/her...
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First usability testing with initial Touchpoint 1 mock-up on the way
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A safety and proof-of-concept study of innovative REACH devices was recently conducted at HUG. Elderly patients with various degrees of cognitive and physical impairment were recruited and randomly assigned to train their transfers with an innovative Alreh Medical’s rehabilitation machine and gaming interface designed according to the standard medical care. Transfer training was performed under vital signs and activity monitoring by care-givers and Fitbit charge sensors. Endpoints were the reporting of any adverse events occurring in the different groups, as well as the functionality, assessed by the NASA task-load index. Furthermore, data collected by Fitbit charge sensors were compared to data collected by care-givers to assess the reliability of these sensors in a rehabilitation setting...
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Randomized trial study in Lyngby with 22 participants completed by DTU and Copenhagen University
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DTU and Copenhagen University completed a randomized trial study in Lyngby with 22 participants. Primary purpose of the study is to examine to what extent daily feedback from wearable activity tracking is accompanied by changes in activity. The study participants wore a wearable sensor over 3 weeks. The study could show that for some participants the feedback has clearly led to a wish for increasing physical activity and for monitoring this...
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Participation in the ISO Strategic Advisory Group “Ageing Societies” as part of standardization activities by DIN and TUM
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TUM and DIN jointly participated in the work of the ISO SAG which was together with a group of experts identifying gaps and priority areas for future standardization in the context of ageing societies and technologies for ageing societies. Amongst others “early/ preemptive intervention” was selected as a priority area and recommendations to form dedicated standardization committees will follow...
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Touchpoint 3 meeting on “socializing and nutritional monitoring/intervention” in Eindhoven
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As part of this Touchpoint a group of REACH partners (Tu/e, Biozoon, Philips, TUM, ZuidZorg) will develop an environment based on sensors and other advanced technologies that is able to early detect and monitor physical activity decline in relation to eating habits and to feedback nutrition plans and receipts. Technologically assisted environment shall facilitate the engagement in cocking and social activities as a type of partly structured intervention. With a series of tests, it is planned to verify the developments against the three performance criteria “early detection”, “motivational capability”, and “intervention aspects”. A first application scenario for this Touchpoints state the community care centers of ZuidZorg...
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1st technical review of REACH in Brussels successfully completed
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The EC invited the REACH consortium for a first technical review to Brussels for the 15th of February. 9 out of 17 partners represented the consortium and answered the questions of an interdisciplinary reviewer team. The reviewer team thanked the presenting partners for the interesting and detailed content presented...
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REACH labeled as being on the forefront of “opening up science” by the magazine “Technologist”
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The H2020 project REACH was labeled as being on the forefront of “opening up science” by the magazine “Technologist”. Read the full article: http://www.technologist.eu/opening-up-science/ ...
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