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Using Smart Technologies to promote
Physical Activity
Federico CrucianiUlster UniversitySupervisors:
C. Nugent, I. Cleland, P. McCullagh, G. Breslin
24 October 2017
Role in ACROSSING
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2016
ESR Background
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➢ 2006: BScEng in Computer Engineering (University of Florence)
➢ 2007-2016: worked as software project manager at I+ and
Orthokey on Connected Health and Computer Assisted Surgery
➢ 2015: MScEng in Computer Engineering (University of Florence)
➢ 2016: Joined Ulster University starting PhD within ACROSSING
2006 2007 2011 2015
Research Project Objectives
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Unhealthy Behaviours 40% of premature
(including sedentarism) deaths*
Project Aim: investigate the use of Smart Technologies to support
Behaviour Change Interventions.
Objectives:
O1: Support the intervention with
Activity Recognition
O2: Design of a dynamic model for Behaviour
Change
O3: Implement Virtual Coaching
* D. Spruijt-Metz and W. Nilsen, “Dynamic models of behavior for just-in-time
adaptive interventions,” IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 13–17,
2014.
Research Project
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Research Achievements
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Smartphone Android App
Server application for virtual coaching
Fitbit wearable integration
Speech interaction via virtual assistant
Conducted investigation and early results have been published at the 39th
EMBC International conference (July 2017)
F. Cruciani, C. Nugent, I. Cleland, and P. McCullagh, “Rich context information for just-in-time adaptive intervention promoting physical activity,” in Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. IEEE, 2017, pp. 849–852.
F. Cruciani, C. Nugent, I. Cleland, and P. McCullagh, “A multi-modal virtual coach for behavior change,” in 39th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), (poster presentation). IEEE, 2017.
ACROSSING Training Experiences
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ACROSSING Training Events: CERTH, PASSAU, DMU
Other Events Organizer Date
Doctoral Studies Induction Course Ulster University October 2016
ALEC Artic Light E-health Conference Lulea (Sweden) February 2017
Behaviour Change Workshop NUI Galway (Ireland) June 2017
mHealth: Behavioural Science and Technology
Conference
NUI Galway (Ireland) June 2017
Connected Health Summer School Ulster University June 2017
Secondments Host Institution Date
Networking, Engaging with medical experts LTU (Sweden) 30 Jan - 6 Feb 2017
Literature review, Industry best practice I+ (Italy) 1-22 April 2017
Networking, Cross discipline training LTU (Sweden) 29 Aug - 22 Sep
2017
Impact on Future Career
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The training within ACROSSING will help to acquire new skills.
Short Term Objectives (within the project):
Conducting Multi-disciplinary research
Provide contribution to knowledge in activity recognition and
behaviour change
Workgroups: SO1 and APP3
Long Term Objectives:
Extend professional collaboration network
How to lead academic and/or industrial research teams
Acquire managerial and communication skills
Conclusions
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Next Steps Assessing use of Weak-Labels for automatic groundtruth annotation and
online training (PerCom2018 ARDUOUS Workshop submission 11th Nov 2017)
Energy efficient spotting of eating episodes from inertial sensors (PerCom2018 ACROSS Workshop submission 11th Nov 2017)
Gamifying exercising and learning for school children (LTU collaboration –Elsevier Special Issue “Strengthening Gamification” submission Dec 2017)
Expected ContributionComputer Science: Investigating new approaches to facilitate deployment of Activity Recognition
functionalities in smart environments in the real world
Behaviour change: Exploring new ways of supporting interventions through virtual coaching
Thank you!
Any Questions?
Acknowledgement of EU-funding
This research work is funded by the EU H2020 Marie Curie
Actions Programme
Thank you!
Any Questions?
Acknowledgement of EU-funding
This research work is funded by the EU H2020 Marie Curie
Actions Programme
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