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INTERSTRESS: Interreality in the Management and Treatment of Stress-Related Disorders

The INTERSTRESS project aims to design, develop and test an advanced ICT-based solution for the assessment and treatment of psychological stress.

 

Objectives:

•    Quantitative and objective assessment of symptoms using biosensors and behavioral analysis

•    Decision support for treatment planning through data fusion and detection algorithms

•    Provision of warnings and motivating feedback to improve compliance and long-term outcome

 

To reach these goals, INTERSTRESS will use a new e-Health concept:  Interreality.  What is Interreality? It is the integration of assessment and treatment within a hybrid, closed-loop empowering experience, bridging physical and virtual worlds into one seamless reality.

•    Behavior in the physical world will influence the virtual world experience

•    Behavior in the virtual world will influence the real world experience

 

These goals will be achieved through:

•    3D Shared Virtual World role-playing experiences in which users interact with one another

o    Immersive in the healthcare centre
o    Non-immersive in the home setting

•    Bio and Activity Sensors (from the Real to the Virtual World)

o    Tracking of emotional/health/activity status of the user and influencing the individual’s experience in the virtual world (aspect, activity, and access)

•    Mobile Internet Appliances (from the Virtual to the Real World)

o    Social and individual user activity in the virtual world has a direct link with the users’ life through a mobile phone/PDA

 

Clinical use of Interreality is based on a closed-loop concept that involves the use of technology for assessing, adjusting and/or modulating the emotional regulation of the patient, his/her coping skills and appraisal of the environment based upon a comparison of the individual patient’s behavioural and physiological responses with a training or performance criterion.  The project will provide a proof of concept of the proposed system with clinical validation.

 

INTERSTRESS is a European-funded project 
Instrument:  CP ---- ICT Grant Number FP7-247685

 

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