A life-course, ICT-approach to cognitive decline: State of the art, challenges and prospects, examples from the ReMember-Me project

Idoia Muñoz

Idoia Muñoz

Workshop Coordinator

Ms Idoia Muñoz holds a Pharmacy degree at University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain) and Global MBA from ESEUNE business school (Bilbao, Spain). She is co-founder and administrator at ESKILARA, working as international project manager, with a broad experience in strategic planning, exploitation and market scalability and market research with special focus on social innovation and wellbeing. She also has experience on silver economy and gender promotion through technology and open innovation. Furthermore, Idoia is a living lab expert, actively collaborating with the European Network of Living Labs, ENoLL, since 2012.

Cristina Bianca Pop

Speaker

Dr. Cristina Bianca Pop is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and a senior member of the Distributed Systems Research Lab team (https://dsrl.eu/). She was/is involved in several EU H2020 and Ambient Assisted Living projects being the Scientific and Technical responsible of the AAL engAGE project (https://engage-aal-project.eu/). Her current research interest is focused on Internet of Things (IoT) and AAL, bio-inspired meta-heuristics and optimisation, big data analytics and machine learning.

Andria Hadjicosta

Andria Hadjicosta

Speaker

Andria Hadjicosta is a Senior Project Manager at Materia Group (Nicosia, Cyprus). She is a holder of Masters in Business Administration and BSc in Radiotherapy and Oncology. She has implemented a number of workshops with different end-user groups either in the context of User Centered Design Methodology, testing and evaluation framework (Projects: IOANNA, frAAgiLe, GUIDed, ReMember-Me, iCan AAL) or in the context of life-long learning and training activities (Projects: DigiAgeing Erasmus+ KA2, HERO Erasmus+ KA2, Healthcare 4.0 Erasmus+ KA2). Andria has experience as a leader of teams, a speaker and a workshop moderator and facilitator in all aforementioned activities and projects.

Identifying early cognitive decline, even before the appearance of any noticeable symptoms, can assist in timely diagnosis and intervention application. However, the existing toolbox to identify symptoms of decline early is limited. During the last few years, the interest has shifted towards ICT solutions to address the issue, with the goal to provide continuous monitoring and/or timely intervention solutions for cognitive function. The aim of this workshop is to present the main challenges of new ICT solutions to combat dementia from the user perspective and implement a highly engaging interactive workshop to collaboratively build a solution-based canvas available to all participants.