The ecosystem view: REACH emphasizes socio-economic context, personalization, medical impact, and sub-ordinates technology to the purpose
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REACH is a strictly technology-oriented and data-driven project. Nevertheless, to put technology-based solutions into practice and generate acceptability and adoption, which is the key prerequisite to make an impact in an ageing society on the user side, REACH follows an ecosystem approach, translating a set of generic elements developed by the partners into context-specific configurations that fit seamlessly into each setting’s ecosystem...
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REACH increasingly provides evidence for the impact of early engagement in physical activity in the ageing population
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In order to develop a holistic REACH concept which delivers quantifiable values it is necessary to follow a standardized yet adaptable roadmap covering testing and outcomes of all used cases and touch-points. Medical outcomes will play a key role because REACH is addressing to improve the physical and mental health of patients and the elderly, and thus enhance their overall quality of life...
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REACH's Touchpoint and Engine concept materialises
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The “Touchpoints and Engine concept” is the high-level description of REACH system architecture. It further guides the detailed structures of the REACH system architecture and its subsystems...
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Activity monitoring in REACH
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Methods from the field of Human Activity Recognition (HAR) can be employed to implement a REACH subsystem for activity monitoring. Such algorithmic methods use annotated training data, collected from on-body and ambient sensor technology, to construct mathematical models of activity patterns based on supervised machine learning methods...
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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) for early detection: from training data collection to real world feasibility testing in Touchpoint 2
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Joint training data collection in a structured environment of a test flat by Fraunhofer, TUM, and SK. In a joint workshop, three Touchpoint 2 partners, including FIAIS, TUM and SK, executed the collection of training data and achieved the following targets...
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REACH with Touchpoint 1 at MEDICA 2018
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We are happy to inform that our ActivLife device which has been developed in REACH was publicly presented at MEDICA (www.medica.de) - the biggest worldwide medical trade fair 11-15.11.2018 in Dusseldorf. AcivLife claims to effectively ENGAGE elderly in rehabilitation of neurodegenerative and cardiological diseases as well as in physical and cognitive activation...
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TUM smart furniture unveiled at Exhibition in Pinakothek der Moderne (Modern Art Museum) in Munich, Germany
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TUM REACH team presented their smart furniture MiniArc at the inauguration ceremony and exhibition of the "Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence" (MSRM; www.msrm.tum.de) at the museum Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich on 26 October, 2018. The MiniArc successfully attracted the visitors’ interests. At the same time, the project REACH was highly promoted to both the visitors of the MRSM exhibition and the museum...
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Philips and TU/e put technology-induced engagement techniques into practice in REACH Touchpoint 3
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Engaging Older Adults With Technologies for Behavior Change Research in Living Labs
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Elderlies often have a sense of distance and obstacles to new technologies, although the technologies can likely help them, for example, motivating them to increase their physical activities and thus improve their independence and quality of life. In order to solve this challenge and bring elderly participate more engaged in a life experiment research, Philips and TU/e developed a product-service-approach...
Please click the following link to watch the video about the product-service-approach from Philips and TU/e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb9d3Zt0lBI&feature=youtu.be
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REACH’s personalised food intervention sub-systems in Touchpoint 3
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REACH Touchpoint 3 aims at technology induced, personalised early interventions and lifestyle changes (physical activity, socialising, nutritional monitoring, etc.) seamlessly integrated into the elderly care ecosystem of a local community care centre. In this context two food intervention sub-systems have been developed: Biozoon’s design of personalised food intervention system and MiranaBot...
Please click the following link to watch the video about MiranaBot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlN4nv8Ig1A&feature=youtu.be
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How standardisation impacts on Horizon Europe Projects - REACH presentation at EU plenary event in Brussels
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On the 10th of October DIN and UNE, German and Spanish national standardization bodies, invited REACH to Brussels to discuss standardization in context of research framework Horizon Europe. Prof. Thomas Bock, as the coordinator of the REACH project, presented the results of REACH’s standardization activities...
For further information, click following link https://www.eu-events.eu/index.php/11486-how-can-standardization-foster-the-impact-of-horizon-europe-projects.html?date=2018-10-10-11-00
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REACH is about to apply its concept and technologies to early intervention in new fields such as dementia
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REACH considers a continuum from a healthy state to having a condition to address physical inactivity and risks and risk factors resulting from it. REACH is in a proactive technology-induced manner targeting these 5 points with regard to physical activity as a primary risk factor for a variety of age-related conditions that may occur in later life...
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REACH business strategy workshop: a step forward towards REACH marketization
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On the 31st of October, a lively REACH business strategy workshop was held in an atmosphere of TU/e’s innovative environment. Approximately 20 people from REACH partners in research, product and user ends participated in this very creative and active discussion...
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Upcoming REACH workshop on data analytics and machine learning for early engagement in physical activity
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On the 13th and 14th of December, the REACH Data Analytics Workshop will take place at TUM in Munich. About 12 people from data-producing and data-analysing REACH partners are expected to join the workshop. Machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), as well as supervised and unsupervised learning will be the focus and main topics...
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