Dr. Oscar Mayora
Dr. Oscar Mayora.    
Keynote title: Patients Empowerment through Virtual Coaching Technologies

Abstract: In the last few years there has been an increasing interest in the general public concerning personal health. This has been reflected in the development of a large number of applications aiming to help citizens to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle (e.g., have a correct diet, do physical activity, lose weight) and to better manage specific behaviors impacting on the evolution of diagnosed diseases.

Many of these applications are focused on persuasion strategies such as self-monitoring, goal-setting, giving rewards and increase of self-awareness, to motivate people to adopt virtuous behaviors. While most of these applications have been rendered available through online market environments without a formal connection to healthcare delivery, its use has been mainly limited to a reduced group of very motivated patients and clinicians, but still is far to achieve their broader potential outreach through a thorough integration into mainstream healthcare provisioning.

This talk will focus on describing the main characteristics of FBK HORUS.AI virtual coaching technology, how it has been used for user empowerment in different prevention and disease management contexts, and the current work conducted for its integration as an innovative service in the Italian Trentino region.
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Dr. Diana Trojaniello
Dr. Diana Trojaniello.    
Keynote title: Designing Smart Health technologies for elderly population

Abstract: Over the recent years, interest toward the development of Smart Health technologies aimed to support independent living for older population has been increased. Smart Health is a concept referring to the multi-dimensional change that the medical care is facing as a result of the integration of mobile (e.g. smartphone), wearables (e.g. fitness band), smart medical devices (e.g. smart blood pressure monitor) and home smart devices (e.g. sensor mattress). The application’s area of these systems ranges from the health parameters monitoring systems during daily life activities to provide insights to the clinicians to smart home solutions to overcome age related limitations. Designing such integrated systems requires to address several aspects (e.g. equipment selection, data management, analytics, costs, and users’ needs) and to involve different areas of expertise (e.g. medical science, biomedical and computer engineering, user centered design, etc.), still focusing on the end users’ needs and acceptance.

This talk will focus on describing the approach adopted in two H2020 projects (SilverStream and SMARTBEAR) in designing the functionalities of Smart Health platforms addressing chronic conditions prevalent in the older population (e.g. cognitive impairments, mental health problems, balance disorders, motor limitations) by taking into account both older adults’ and clinicians’ perspectives.
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Dr. Oscar Mayora.

Abstract: In the last few years there has been an increasing interest in the general public concerning personal health. This has been reflected in the development of a large number of applications aiming to help citizens to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle (e.g., have a correct diet, do physical activity, lose weight) and to better manage specific behaviors impacting on the evolution of diagnosed diseases.

Many of these applications are focused on persuasion strategies such as self-monitoring, goal-setting, giving rewards and increase of self-awareness, to motivate people to adopt virtuous behaviors. While most of these applications have been rendered available through online market environments without a formal connection to healthcare delivery, its use has been mainly limited to a reduced group of very motivated patients and clinicians, but still is far to achieve their broader potential outreach through a thorough integration into mainstream healthcare provisioning.

This talk will focus on describing the main characteristics of FBK HORUS.AI virtual coaching technology, how it has been used for user empowerment in different prevention and disease management contexts, and the current work conducted for its integration as an innovative service in the Italian Trentino region.
Dr. Oscar Mayora

Bio: Dr. Oscar Mayora is senior researcher at FBK and the head of the Digital Health Lab Unit at FBK Center for Health and Wellbeing and scientific coordinator for the Joint Research Unit between the Trentino Local Health Trust, the Province of Trento and FBK as part of Trentino Salute 4.0 Initiative. He is also an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Cognitive Sciences at University of Trento (Italy), the School of Medicine at University of Verona (Italy) and FH-Burgenland (Austria). He has published over 200 papers in International Conferences and Journals, participated as Guest Editor of special issues in the topic of Pervasive Healthcare of Journals such as IEEE Intelligent Systems, EURASIP Signal Processing, Springer MONET, IMIA Journal on Methods of Information in Medicine among others. Dr. Mayora is founder of the EAI International Pervasive Health Conference in collaboration with ACM. He has coordinated research projects at National and International level attracting over 10ME of funding in the past 8 years in the topic of pervasive healthcare and assistive technologies (EC FP6, FP7, H2020, HE and ICT Labs among others). He serves as reviewer and evaluator for different national and international agencies such as the European Commission, La Caixa Fellowship Program (Spain), CONACYT (Mexico), and other institutions in Italy and Switzerland.

Dr. Diana Trojaniello.

Abstract: Over the recent years, interest toward the development of Smart Health technologies aimed to support independent living for older population has been increased. Smart Health is a concept referring to the multi-dimensional change that the medical care is facing as a result of the integration of mobile (e.g. smartphone), wearables (e.g. fitness band), smart medical devices (e.g. smart blood pressure monitor) and home smart devices (e.g. sensor mattress). The application’s area of these systems ranges from the health parameters monitoring systems during daily life activities to provide insights to the clinicians to smart home solutions to overcome age related limitations. Designing such integrated systems requires to address several aspects (e.g. equipment selection, data management, analytics, costs, and users’ needs) and to involve different areas of expertise (e.g. medical science, biomedical and computer engineering, user centered design, etc.), still focusing on the end users’ needs and acceptance.

This talk will focus on describing the approach adopted in two H2020 projects (SilverStream and SMARTBEAR) in designing the functionalities of Smart Health platforms addressing chronic conditions prevalent in the older population (e.g. cognitive impairments, mental health problems, balance disorders, motor limitations) by taking into account both older adults’ and clinicians’ perspectives.
Dr. Diana Trojaniello

Bio: Dr. Diana Trojaniello got the BEng degree (2009) and Msc (2011) cum laude in Biomedical Engineering from the University Federico II of Naples, in Italy. In 2015, she received the Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. During her Ph.D., she spent research periods abroad (EPFL, University of Virginia, University of Madrid,) as invited visiting researcher. After the PhD she worked as Post-Doc research fellow and visiting researcher at Oregon Health and Science University, Portland. She practiced as Adjunct Professor at University of Verona and University of Sassari in Biomedical image processing, MRI and CT techniques.

In 2015, Dr. Trojaniello joined the San Raffaele Research Hospital as Senior Researcher at the Center for advanced technology in health and wellbeing, where she holds the role of Head of Bioengineering Research Program and Deputy Director of the research center managing activities in the area of scientific project management, devising research proposals (mainly H2020) and programs, multidisciplinary and multi-center teams coordination, junior researcher supervision and mentoring, personnel and budget management. Since 2018, Dr. Trojaniello is also Adjunct Professor at University Vita-Salute San Raffaele and, since 2020, member of the San Raffaele Research Hospital HTA commission.