Project description
Human-computer interaction solution to improve conditions for the ageing workforce
WorkingAge seeks to improve the well-being of people over 45 years, focusing on office, manufacturing and teleworking workplaces. It also considers the workers’ daily activities outside work. The European workforce is aging. Older workers have specific conditions that need a specific response to maintain/improve their well-being, supporting motivation to stay working at higher age and enable better productivity. The WorkingAge team has developed the WAOW tool, which aims at improving the health and well-being of older workers at work and leisure time by supervising their working conditions and providing different types of advice through personalized technologies and friendly & intelligent human interfaces. The tool covers mental, physical, social aspects and the workers environment.
Objective
WorkingAge will use innovative HCI methods (augmented reality, virtual reality, gesture/voice recognition and eye tracking) to measure the user emotional/cognitive/health state and create communication paths. At the same time with the use of IoT sensors will be able to detect environmental conditions. The purpose is to promote healthy habits of users in their working environment and daily living activities in order to improve their working and living conditions.
By studying the profile of the >50 (Year old) workers and the working place requirements in three different working environments (Office, Driving and Manufacturing), both profiles (user and environment) will be considered. Information obtained will be used for the creation of interventions that will lead to healthy aging inside and outside the working environment.
WorkingAge will test and validate an integrated solution that will learn the user’s behaviour, health data and preferences and through continue data collection and analysis will interact naturally with the user. This innovative system will provide workers assistance in their everyday routine in the form of reminders, risks avoidance and recommendations. In this way the WorkingAge project will create a sustainable and scalable product that will empower their user's easing their life by attenuating the impact of aging in their autonomy, work conditions, health and well-being.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual reality
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
09001 Villalonquejar Burgos
Spain