Sensei: Sensor Based Engagement for Improved Health

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Exercise is important for staying healthy; people who exercise regularly and stay active are less likely to take ill. However, with all of today’s modern technology, physical activity is seldom required easy to neglect.

In the ‘Sensei’ project, smartphones, motion sensors and cloud computing are used to motivate their users to move more and to move more often – and to keep this up as well. The project differs in two regards from comparable efforts.
- Not one, but three aspects of health – physical, mental and social – are factored in.
- Personalised feedback instead of generic feedback is offered. This personalisation is accomplished through the use of data on individual goals, which in turn is based on cloud aggregated data relating to groups.

At the Information Media Creation department of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences sensor signal analysis and social media use analysis are being investigated. The department of Exercise, Sport and Nutrition will execute broadscale user studies.

Gathering data with 4G

For the Sensei project smartphones and 4G internet are being used to gather running data. The smartphones with 4G internet are provided by KPN and Surfnet as part of the 4G and eduroam pilot program. More information about the program and it’s pilots is presented on the 20th of November..

SIM SENSEI City Runner app

In collaboration with the Sense in the City and the “CitySDK”:http://digitallifecentre.nl/projecten/citysdk projects, a running app was developed that will be used by students in the first week of February.
Read the announcement for more information about the app.

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