New research project! EDIC: Exceptional and Deep Intelligent Coach

We are pleased to announce the acceptance of another research project! This time it was EDIC: Exceptional and Deep Intelligent Coach, funded by the COMMIT/program (DATA2PERSON call). In the EDIC project we bring together in expertise in data mining, telemedicine, e-coaching, behavioral sciences and domain expertise in chronically ill patients, to develop a novel data-driven artificial coaching platform.

We focus on studying two novel methodologies: (1) informed and interpretable complex event detection and model adaptation on heterogeneous and noisy data streams capturing patient’s medical condition, lifestyle and behavior, and (2) data-driven personalized coaching based on modeling and causal inference from these data streams. The developed techniques will allow to (1) discover the root causes for individual (un)healthy behaviours, (2) measure the effectiveness of automatic behavior change strategies and (3) develop personalized holistic coaching strategies and anticipatory coaching interventions.

In this project we count with the collaboration of two Dutch universities (University of Twente and Technical University of Eindhoven), one hospital (Ziekehuisgroep Twente) and three companies (Philips, Holst and Roessingh Research and Development).

What a great year is 2018!