MyMate
Project MyMATE will develop a platform and content management system capable of addressing the different needs of the individual elderly user, (e.g. medical, pharmaceutical, bio-monitoring and physical characterisation, evaluation of emotional state, physical activity, leisure activities, etc.). Unlike existing paradigms and approaches which use virtual visualisation techniques like avatars, the MyMATE environment will involve a community of elderly volunteers, coordinated from the elderly care centres/care providers, acting as “human sensors” responsible for providing the interface with the system in the elderly primary user’s home, thus providing the emotional and “human face” to the structure.
An innovative gamification approach will lie at the heart of the MyMATE solution assigning “missions” and using a “matching” system assisting in establishing “harmonies” between profiles of elderly people. The gaming platform will be managed and monitored by competent professionals at elderly care centres.
