AgeingatWork

Acronym: AgeingatWork

Full Title: Smart, Personalized and Adaptive ICT Solutions for Active, Healthy and Productive Ageing with enhanced Workability

Project Timeline

• Start date: 1 January 2019
• End date: 30 June 2022

AgeingatWork Description

AgeingatWork developed a novel ICT-based, personalized system to support ageing workers (aged 50+) into designing fit-for-purpose work environments and managing flexibly their evolving needs. Advanced dynamically adapted virtual models of workers incorporated specificities in respect to skills, physical, cognitive and behavioral factors, being extended from the work context to personal life aspects interacting with workability, health and well-being.

Virtual workplace models encoded characteristics of the workplace (factory, outdoor work site, home), at both physical and semantic, resource/process levels. Computational intelligence was responsible to (a) assess user specificities and needs in respect to work conditions, both in terms of ergonomics, health and safety issues and task assignments, and (b) perform personalized predictive simulations on workability, health and well-being.

To foster workability and productivity, highly personalized, intuitive, age-friendly productivity enhancement tools were developed, including ones for AR/VR-based context-awareness and telepresence, lifelong learning and knowledge sharing. A novel Ambient Virtual Coach (AVC) encompassed an empathic mirroring avatar for subtle notifications provision, an adaptive Visual Analytics-based personal dashboard, and a reward-based motivation system targeting positive and balanced worker behavior at work and personal life.

The integrated system was developed by user-centered design and was evaluated at two pilot sites, related to core Industry 4.0 processes of mining and machines production.

For a complete list of publications and deliverables, visit the CORDIS project page.