Elaboration of Intervention Strategies for Health and Workability Management

Tom C. Thomsen*, Miriam Cabrita, Christiane Grünloh, Rita Kovordanyi, Otilia Kocsis, Willeke van Staalduinen

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This poster session describes how the H2020 Smartwork project has elaborated intervention strategies regarding individual health management among office workers at +55 of age. The approach has addressed user demands through questionaries mapping these onto six intervention domains: Interventions for health self-management; behavioural interventions to promote physical activity, healthy nutrition and wellbeing; cognitive function interventions to maintain cognitive capacity; work management interventions to reduce work related stress; work-related training interventions, facilitate explicit/implicit knowledge acquisition and intergenerational knowledge transfer; and work environment adaptations. Within the domains, interventions are motivated and referenced to the user needs, further shaped by motivation theories and user values to improve impact, setting goals for behavioural and wellbeing changes to achieve viable results for the individual user. The concept of intervention in this context is carefully defined, what it is and what causes an intervention. The approach enables further mapping of the interventions onto the envisaged SmartWork services and modules, hence establishing linkage from user needs to the services. Monitoring of physiological and behavioral parameters are carried out by sensors and wearables, fed into the Smartwork Artificial Intelligence system which unobtrusively and pervasively monitor health, behaviour, cognitive and emotional status of the worker. Additionally, workers will be asked regularly to report their findings and well-being at work for Machine Learning Purposes. By doing this, SmartWork is capable to identify and assess the functional and cognitive decline risks and trigger interventions which will appear on the devices the worker is using, e.g. such as trainings, relax techniques and advises.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event2nd Workshop on Smart, Personalized and Age-Friendly Working Environments, SmartWork 2021 - Virtual Event
Duration: 25 Oct 202127 Oct 2021
Conference number: 2

Workshop

Workshop2nd Workshop on Smart, Personalized and Age-Friendly Working Environments, SmartWork 2021
Abbreviated titleSmartWork 2021
CityVirtual Event
Period25/10/2127/10/21

Keywords

  • Health Monitoring
  • Wearables
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Interventions

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