OsteoMentor will innovate, push technological barriers, develop and pilot-validate intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living with osteoporosis, a progressive and chronic metabolic bone disease that causes more than 8M fractures annually (1 per 3 sec). It will offer an integrated platform for smart informed healthy living in(out)doors, assisting patients with osteoporosis (or at risk) in physical exercise, nutrition, medication control, bone fracture/fall prevention, emotional wellness, and socialization, fostering healthcare self-management set within a collaborative care context with health professionals. OsteoMentor will leverage knowledge from psychological and medical disciplines into a digital open platform comprised of advanced ICT means, including everyday smart devices, privacy-aware Internet-of-Things setting, a personalized communicative and supportive virtual coach, AI, and big data analysis. From the latter, users’ behavioral and emotional profiles will be inferred, using fuzzy deep learning and affective computing, enabling the development of user-centric, data-driven coaching recommendations.
