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ESSENCE
Horizon 2020 project
Duration: 01/11/2020 to
31/10/22
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Coordinator:
Politecnico di Milano
(Italy)
Partners:
Universita degli studi di
Milano (IT)
Universita degli studi dell'Insubria (IT)
Fundacion para la Formacion e Investigacion
de los Profesionales de Extremadura (SP)
University of Haifa (IL)
SXT SRL Sistemi per Telemedicina
(IT)
Smart Com Doo Informacijski in Komunikacijski Sistemi (SI)
Signalgenerix Limited (CY)
E-Seniors (FR)
ESSENCE aims at transforming the lessons learnt from
the COVID-19 in a huge opportunity that exploits technology toward a deep
evolution of the services targeting vulnerable populations: non- or pre-frail
seniors, and children of the first years of primary school. To contribute to
the public health response in the context of the ongoing epidemic, and
preparedness for future emergencies, ESSENCE aims at boosting the creation of a
new model of home-based care that relies on stimulation, remote monitoring,
tele-assistance, and connection between users, families, and professionals.
ESSENCE builds upon the results of the H2020 project MoveCare.
Project outputs:
- a holistic platform, based on virtual rooms, providing a series of
diverse activities with declared recreational, socialization, educational, and
assistive purposes;
- a monitoring module, that gathers heterogeneous information from the
activities mediated by the platform and diverse applications to extract
cognitive, physical, and emotion-related indicators. Artificial Intelligence is
exploited to provide personalized feedback, and alerts for deviations from
physiological behaviors;
Through ESSENCE, a multi-level user empowerment will be promoted both by: (i) delivering empathic feedback aimed at maximizing
engagement and relieving stress; (ii) producing alerts on potential risks to
family members and health and education professionals aimed at fostering early
detection of possible weaknesses and anticipation of care.