Results and Publications

What are project results?

Project results are any tangible or intangible output of the action, such as data, knowledge and information whatever their form or nature, whether or not they can be protected.

Key exploitable results are the outputs generated during the PROCare4Life project which can be used and create impact, either by the project partners or by other stakeholders.

Project results can be reusable and exploitable (e.g. inventions, prototypes, services) as such, or elements (knowledge, technology, processes, networks) that have potential to contribute for further work on research or innovation.

Here is a chart describing project results below:

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Offical Reports

WP2 Deliverables

D2.1 Fundamental rights and legal implications in relation to user monitoring

Leader: Stelar (STL)

Outcome of task 2.1 - Fundamental rights and legal implications: which seeks to identify, map and provide an overview of legal requirements imposed by the fundamental rights involved and, in particular, the right to personal data protection and privacy, ethics, and social

It contains: legislation at European and National level and ethical, privacy and data protection requirements; procedures for consent and templates used in the project; literature research on ethical discussions, good practices and non-discrimination and protection of vulnerable groups.

It contributes to: the identification of risks related to data protection and privacy and to their mitigation; ensuring privacy and security requirements of research/technical solution; the correct monitoring of tasks and activities.

D2.2 User requirements and PROCARE4Life scenarios

Leader: Asociación Parkinson Madrid (APM)

Outcome of task 2.2 – User requirements and scenarios: which investigates end users’ key personal, social, health related and psychological factors that influence their daily life in order to define requirements for scenario and use cases. It also ascertains the views of key stakeholders across Europe, involved in the integrated care process.

It contains: target end users description; representative results and self-reflection summary, after a user requirements study was hold with 217 participants, with implications extracted for PROCare4Life (see study protocol manuscript). Also a description of the different scenarios (day centre, home and rehabilitation room) in the different pilot sites.

It contributes to: the development of all WPs, technical and clinical, by focusing project development on user needs.

D2.3 PROCare4Life platform architecture blueprint

Leader: Kinetikos (KIN)

Outcome of task 2.3 System customization and architecture: which aims to specify PROCare4Life requirements in terms of main software/hardware technologies, divided into functional areas (low-level, high-level, platform and interfaces) describing subcomponents and some data security considerations.

It contains: an overview of PROCare4Life modular architecture describing all platform modules, communication protocols, underlying information and data storage models that allows combining sensors and interfaces in different ways in the various scenarios through the project.

It contributes to: define the communication among modules and its protection to reduce uncertainty in project execution and ensure a rapidly implement and deploy of PROCare4Life platform for pilots.

D2.4 Evaluation strategy and pilot deployment roadmap

Leader: Casa di Cura Privata del Policlinico SPA (CCPP)

Outcome of task 2.4 Evaluation strategy and protocols: whose aim is to create a specific set of guidelines to evaluate the system from the usability point of view for assessing the developed modules/services.

It contains: The methodology underlying the development and assessment to evaluate the usability of the system: indicators (users’ acceptance, satisfaction and performance) and overall (end users’ description, scenarios, ethical considerations and pilot’s guidelines). Also literature research on indicators and quantitative quantitative/qualitative evaluation tools.

It contributes to: the development of the different study protocols of the project; the validation of pilot indicators that will demonstrate efficiency/benefits of the system and to ensure the trust of users by investigating their opinion.

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D2.5 Cultural and societal implications

Leader: Asociación Parkinson Madrid (APM)

Outcome of task 2.5 Identification of cultural and societal implications in the care environment: whose aim is to understand the cultural and societal markers involved in the patient care environment and study the different integrated care models in every pilot region in order to adapt PROCare4Life.

It contains: an extensive literature search in cultural and societal variables in health; characteristics of aging society; country health profiles; country health systems; integrated care systems; digital health and care with transformation barriers and specifications for PROCare4Life.

It contributes to: the development of care pathways understanding differences between countries involved taking into account in the business model market strategy plan; all WP’s with info to improve working practices to prepare age-related services/solution.

D2.6 Revision of WP2 outputs according to pilot evaluations

Leader: Asociación Parkinson Madrid (APM)

Outcome of the task: provides an overview of WP2 tasks implemented during M1-M27 of the PROCare4Life project.

It contains: A summary of results achieved within each of the WP2 tasks on M9, a revision of the evolution of these tasks and results achieved at M27 and next expected steps in terms of: Fundamental rights, ethical and legal implications; user requirements in different scenarios; system requirements; evaluation strategy and protocols; and cultural and social implications in care.

It contributes to: to identify new challenges and to continue with an iterative process that improves and facilitates the access to PROCare4Life system.

WP3 Deliverables

D3.1 Sensorial Data Acquisition Module

Leader: Kinetikos (KIN)

Outcome of the task: Sensorial data acquisition module
The tools, modules, and APIs needed to collect data from the various sensors used in the project (namely, wearable sensors, mobile phone sensors, object sensors, and depth cameras)

It contains: The description of the proposed solution for the PROCare4Life sensorial ecosystem in terms of main hardware and software technologies and the plug-and-play solution developed for local computers which is called PROCareOS.

It contributes to: The technical description of the sensorial data acquisition, data storage, and data transfer components

D3.2 Cognitive Level Assessment

Leader: UPM

Outcome of the task: Cognitive abilities assessment
The development of the cognitive games application and the main stages needed to build the cognitive assessment system.

It contains: The description of six entertaining cognitive games that stimulate the brain, the type of information collected by the application in terms of scores, metrics and user interaction, and the processing of this information.

It contributes to: The technical description of the cognitive games, the gaming interface, and the metrics defined to measure cognitive abilities.

D3.3 Human Activity Recognition

Leader: University of Maastricht (UM)

Outcome of Task 3.3: Recognition of user activities, including specific disease related symptoms
The development of detection algorithms for symptoms (bradykinesia, falling, freezing, gait festination, loss of balance, and wandering) and activities (physical activities, medication intake, walking patterns, and sleep patterns).

Outcome of Task 3.4: User behavioural patterns analysis
The development of behaviour recognition engine that generates modular representations for motor symptoms, physical activities, sleep patterns, medication intake, cognitive abilities, comorbidities, socio-demographic information, and clinical assessments.

It contains: The description of the algorithms used to detect symptoms and activities, the methodology for long-term behavioural analysis, and the designs of web-based visualizations regarding the monitoring data and analysis results.

It contributes to: The technical description of the detection algorithms, daily summaries generation, data transfer components, behavioural analysis API, and the visualization designs.

D3.4 Care Pathway Planning, Delivery and Monitoring

Leader: Kinetikos (KIN)

Outcome of the task: Care pathway planning, delivery and monitoring
The development of PROCare4Life integrated care pathway, involving in the ecosystem the key stakeholders in the health and care service provision of elderly living with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other chronic conditions.

It contains: The description of individual care pathways of pilot sites and the PROCare4Life integrated care pathway that is designed based on the similarities and individualities of the pilot site care pathways and the needs of the target users of PROCare4Life.

It contributes to: Enhance the quality of care across the continuum of health and care service provision by improving risk-adjusted patient outcomes, promoting patient safety, increasing patient satisfaction and QoL, promoting their autonomy and empowerment, optimizing the work of health and care professionals and the use of resources.

WP4 Deliverables

D4.4 Development of printed and digital training material

Leader: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU)

Outcome task 4.4 v1.0 Development of printed and digital training material to be used in the three pilot phases of the project.

The major content of D4.4 is the factual training material, which has been developed so far until Month 12 of the project.

It contains: The major content of D4.4 is the factual training material, which has been developed so far: The written components, the videos, and planned future activities.

It contributes to: Methodology, research, planned evaluation of the material and revision are discussed, as well as how the final materials will be used for exploitation purposes.

D4.4 Development of printed and digital training material

Leader: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU)

Outcome task 4.4 v 2.0 Development of printed and digital training material to be used in the three pilot phases of the project.

The present document updates and replaces D4.4 v1.0, which was submitted in M12. The major content of D4.4 is the factual training material, which has been developed so far until Month 12 of the project.

It contains: The major content of D4.4 is the factual training material, which has been developed so far: The written components, scripted cartoons, videos, and planned future activities.

It contributes to: Methodology, research, planned evaluation of the material and revision are discussed. User feedback findings and revision are discussed, how materials have developed with the platforms and clinical feedback, as well as how the final materials will be used for exploitation purposes.

WP7 Deliverables

D7.1 Pilot Assessment Protocol

Leader: Asociación Parkinson Madrid (APM)

This deliverable gathers the material needed to conduct pilot 1 and pilot 2 of the project.

It contains: A review of questionnaires and scales to be implemented together with procedures in simulated data collection for training algorithms. Also a co-creation of questions to collect some quantitative and qualitative data on the use of PROCare4Life system and the materials created to train users in the use of the different PROCare4Life devices.

It contributes to: provide a common framework to serve as a reference as well as a systematic approach to the implementation process.

WP8 Deliverables

D8.1 PROCare4Life Market Analysis Report Update

Leader: ATOS

The Outcome of the task: Market Analysis & Business Model
Provides an overview of the Business Plan of PROCare4Life solution.

It contains: a market analysis based on KERs of the PROCare4Life, potential of the solution, a Business Model Canvas to provide an overview of the Business Model and its validation through stakeholders feedback.

It contributes to: to explore healthcare-related technology market and to position PROCare4Life into that market. The first version was submitted to the EC at M12, being the present document the second and final one.

D8.2 Dissemination Communication Plan

D8.3 PROCare4life Website

WP9 Deliverables

D9.1 Management Reports for the main aspects of the work, objectives, results and conclusions, including the final plan for using and disseminating knowledge

Leader: Kinetikos Driven Solutions (KIN)

The Outcome of the task: Management Report
Provides an overview of the management of the PROCare4Life project.

It contains: an overview of management activities, technical development, progress in pilot implementation, monitoring of KPIS, risks and their mitigation measures and financial control.

It contributes to: to assess the progress of the project on an annual basis. The first report was submitted to the EC at M12, two more are planned for M24 and M36.

D9.2 Technical Implementation Plan and Report

Leader: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)

The Outcome of the task: Technical Implementation Plan and Report
Provides an overview of the different technical developments.

It contains: a description of the main technical decisions, risks and mitigation plans during the first half of the PROCare4Life project (January 2020 to June 2021), and the plan for the next months of the project, including testing and pilot plans.

It contributes to: prepare the technical work still needed to get the full PROCare4Life platform to be implemented in Pilot 3, including final validation and cross-checking of the clinical and technical data analysis for the expected number of users.

D9.3 Risk Identification and Management & Quality Assurance Plan

Leader: Kinetikos Driven Solutions (KIN)

The Outcome of the task: Risk Identification and Management & Quality Assurance Plan
Aims to establish a framework for the coordination and management of PROCare4Life.

It contains: guidelines in 4 main areas:

Project management
Internal communication strategy
Quality assurance
Risk management

It contributes to: assist the project management activities, compile the procedures and tools to facilitate a successful communication among the consortium, set guidelines and procedures to assure the project quality and set the strategy to manage risk.

D9.4 Data, knowledge and IPR management plan

Leader: Kinetikos Driven Solutions (KIN)

The Outcome of the task: Data, knowledge and IPR management plan
Outlines the ways in which PROCare4Life data is collected, generated and/or processed.

It contains:

the data summary
how the data will be made findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), including a list of standards to be taken into account
the resources for data management
the security and ethical aspects and
the IPR management plan

It contributes to: help the consortium to structure and treat the identified and described data in the best and fairest way.

Flyers and documents

PROCare4Life Deliverables

D.8.3 PROCare4life Website

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D8.2 Dissemination Communication Plan

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D2.4 Evaluation strategy and Pilot deployment roadmap

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ProCare4Life Leaflets

English Leaflet

Spanish Leaflet

Italian Leaflet

Portuguese Leaflet

German Leaflet

Romania Leaflet

Wohlfahrtswerk für Baden-Württemberg (WBW) Pilot site Leaflet

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PROCare4Life COVID-19 Protocol

COVID-19 Protocol

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Scientific Publications

Publications in Scientific Journals

Title	Publication	Link	DOI	Authors
Investigating Users' and Other Stakeholders' Needs in the Development of a Personalized Integrated Care Platform (PROCare4Life) for Older People with Dementia or Parkinson Disease: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study	JMIR Research Protocols	Link	https://doi.org/10.2196/22463	Ahmed M, Marín M, Bouça-Machado R, How D, Judica E, Tropea P, Bentlage E, Brach M
End Users’ and Other Stakeholders’ Needs and Requirements in the Development of a Personalized Integrated Care Platform (PROCare4Life) for Older People With Dementia or Parkinson Disease: Mixed Methods Study	JMIR Formative Research	Link	https://doi.org/10.2196/39199	Ahmed M, Marín M, How D, Judica E, Tropea P, Bentlage E, J Ferreira J, Bouça-Machado R, Brach M
Investigating ProCare4Life Impact on Quality of Life of Elderly Subjects With Neurodegenerative Diseases	clinicatrials.gov	Link		Judica E
Continuous Person Identification and Tracking in Healthcare by Integrating Accelerometer Data and Deep Learning Filled 3D Skeletons		Link	10.1109/JSEN.2022.3186499	Bastico M, Belmonte-Hernández A, Álvarez García f
Dynamic Temperature Scaling in Contrastive Self-supervised Learning for Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition	IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science	Link	https://doi.org/10.1109/TBIOM.2022.3180591	Khaertdinov B, Asteriadis S, Ghaleb E

Papers in Conferences

Title	Conference	Open Access Link	DOI	Authors
PROCare4Life: An integrated care platform to improve the quality of life of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s patients	PETRA 22	Link	https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534727	Belmonte-Hernánddez A, Can Semerci Y, Proença J, Romera-Giner S
Modelling Behaviours of People Living with Neurodegenerative Conditions	PETRA 22		https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3534721	Ghaleb E, Can Semerci Y, Asteriadis S
Dementia Wandering Recognition using Classical Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques with Skeletal Trajectories	PETRA 21	Link	https://doi.org/10.1145/3453892.3461343	Khaertdinov B, Can Semerci Y, Asteriadis S
Deep Triplet Networks with Attention for Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition	PerCom 22	Link	https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM50583.2021.9439116	Khaertdinov B, Ghaleb E, Asteriadis S
Contrastive Learning with Cross-Modal Knowledge Mining for Multimodal Human Activity Recognition	IJCNN 22	Link	https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN55064.2022.9892522	Bronze R, Khaertdinov B, Asteriadis S
Personalized Integrated Care Promoting Quality of Life for Older People (ProCare4Life)	EAN 22	Link	https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.15467
Feasibility and usefulness of a consumer-grade device for physical activity monitoring for patients with Parkinson’s disease and Parkinsonism	SIAMOC 22
TELERIABILITAZIONE MOTORIA E COGNITIVA attraverso TABLET«REACT-TABLET»	SIMFER 22
Temporal Feature Alignment in Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Human Activity Recognition	IJCB 22	Link	https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCB54206.2022.10007984	Khaertdinov B, Asteriadis S
ProCare 4 Life: Soluții moderne integrate pentru managementul pe termen lung al pacienților cu boli neurologice cronice	The XIXth Congress of the Romanian Society of Neurology	Link
Procare4Life: results of the Romanian study on users’ needs and requirements	The IXth Congress of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila	Link