Initiated during the visit to Bangalore by a delegation of the City of Amsterdam led by major van der Laan, Infosys Ltd and the Amsterdam based leading Dutch Public Private ICT research partnership COMMIT/ have created a new collaboration project on Sensor Driven Coaching for Healthy Living. The 4m € project brings academics and researchers from Infosys in India / The Netherlands, VU University Amsterdam, University Twente and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) together with Dutch industry players Almende and SenseOS in a unique consortium with all required expertise, in particular in human movement, sensors, clouds, privacy, human-computer interaction, and complex pattern analysis.
The current welfare states face serious medical issues as a growing number of the population is at risk for developing health problems related to excessive food intake in combination with lack of exercise. These medical issues include obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure. A key problem in this area is how to motivate people to not only start, but also stick to a healthy life style, including sufficient physical exercise through sports or otherwise. The goal of the project is to improve the personal motivation of people, using behavioural intervention technology based on modern ICT, especially smartphones, off-the-shelf sensors and clouds.
We will be integrating technology to sense, analyse, interpret and motivate people who take part in sports and exercises towards a better wellbeing. This data will be used to provide intelligent coaching to improve sports and exercise related well-being on 3 dimensions: Physical, Mental and Social. The focus will be on people who partake or wish to partake in sports or exercise activities (like walking, running, cycling) as part of a work/life routine. Living laboratories are used to co-create the project results with users communities.
The project will deliver scientific results and will produce a series of business oriented inspirational demonstrations.
The project expresses the interest of the ICT and creative research community in the Netherlands and Infosys Ltd to expand the collaboration into the research domain and provide a Dutch foothold for Indian research services.
Geleyn Meijer – board of directors COMMIT/
Dennis Gada – Infosys Ltd NL