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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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