Project description DEENESFRITPL Smartphone app for eating disorders Eating disorders affect around 20 million people in the EU. Often associated with problematic behaviours, such as self-starvation, bingeing and purging, their treatment typically includes a combination of psychotherapy and nutrition education. In this context, the EU-funded SmartEater project is developing an app to provide intelligent mobile logging of psychological and emotional states as well as eating behaviours, as a basis for interventions supporting individuals with bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder. To ensure high user adherence, the app asks users to repeatedly enter data on craving for foods, stress, and more. Applying machine learning algorithms, the app ‘learns’ from the user and predicts potentially problematic future eating behaviours for timely intervention. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Smartphones are ubiquitous in all age groups and socioeconomic levels and digitalization of various life domains is in fullprogress. While there are several areas where skepticism is justified, the personal health domain still holds high promises, particularly when applied in specific settings. The proposed mHealth app SmartEater provides intelligent mobile logging of stress, and eatingbehavior as a basis for intervention and follow-up care in clinics treating eating disorders and obesity. Current apps require frequent and cumbersome entries, resulting in low user adherence and poor data quality. Evidence for their usefulness is often missing. Further, therapeutic content is not personalized. In SmartEater, users repeatedly enter data on experienced craving for foods and stress. SmartEater then ‘learns’ from the user through sophisticated machine learning algorithms: data from smartphone usagepatterns (e.g. screen-on time, calls, messages, internet traffic) and sensor data (e.g. movement, background noise) arecombined to substitute for manual user input, thereby progressively reducing user burden. Temporal pattern analysis ofindividual time-series allows prediction of stress and craving bouts into the near future. Such predictions allows the app to respondto upcoming eating 'crises’ e.g. overeating/binge eating and launch situation-appropriate tips that have been developed individually for the user during in-patient treatment. SmartEater will be routed in psychological models of eating behavior and rigorously tested in the described population to evaluate efficacy. Due to the sensitive nature of such data, SmartEater enforces strict privacy protection. Targeted markets include health insurances which profit from improved patient health and successful transfer into daily life after professional treatment as well as clinics with an eating/weight disorder focus in German speaking coutries. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phonesnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningmedical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutritionobesity Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2018-PoC - ERC Proof of Concept Grant Call for proposal ERC-2018-PoC See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-POC - Proof of Concept Grant Coordinator PARIS-LODRON-UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG Net EU contribution € 61 250,00 Address Kapitelgasse 4-6 5020 Salzburg Austria See on map Region Westösterreich Salzburg Salzburg und Umgebung Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Beneficiaries (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all PARIS-LODRON-UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG Austria Net EU contribution € 61 250,00 Address Kapitelgasse 4-6 5020 Salzburg See on map Region Westösterreich Salzburg Salzburg und Umgebung Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 FACHHOCHSCHULE SALZBURG GMBH Austria Net EU contribution € 88 750,00 Address Urstein sued 1 5412 Puch bei hallein See on map Region Westösterreich Salzburg Salzburg und Umgebung Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
