INTREPID

INTREPID will serve to empower Community citizens in the management of their individual health, to provide health care professionals and facilities with a reliable phobias treatment and decision support tool and to create new opportunities for the medical wearable device industry. INTREPID will build upon the well documented increasing demand for "healthy lifestyle" products and services on the consumer side and offer potentially significant returns for those who chose to invest in the project outcome.

The INTREPID project scientific objectives are:

• To effectively exploit the synergy in the information acquired from the various biometric sensors and develop new and efficient data fusion techniques, which will significantly broaden machine perception and enhance awareness of the phobia's states.
• To create an identification system of the physiological and phobia-based emotional state of a patient (phobia's state) that will be based on the association of the information coming from the various biometric sensors.
• To create a decision-making system that will project the current patient's phobia state into the future and draw inferences about the actions that should be taken in order to keep the patient in the desired phobia's state.
• To create a new centralised sensor management system that will use active and selective perception techniques in order to optimize the overall performance of the identification system and the tracking system.
• To create a powerful, intelligent and innovative humancomputer interaction environment that will boost the research and work on affective wearable computing and machine emotional intelligence domain.

The INTREPID project technological objectives are:

• To create an advanced tracking system that will optimally monitor the symptoms of phobias. The system will measure heart rate, perspiration rate, breath rate, muscle stiffness and if needed complementary modalities through a set of miniaturized wearable sensors that the patient wears during the treatment session.
• To create a sophisticated environment in a commercial wearable computer that will consist of:
• To create a professional site for psychologists and therapists that will assist them to design the next steps of the patient's therapy taking into account the individualized physiological and emotional state of each patient.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.intrepid-project.org

Project co-ordinator:
Manchester University (UK)

Partners:

• UNIMAN (UK)
• ESIEA (FR)
• AURELIA MICRO (IT)
• UoI (EL)
• PALADION (EL)
• Elyros (BE)
• InFocus (UK)

Timetable: from 01/04 to 12/06

Total cost: € 3,228,334

EC funding: € 2,000,000

Instrument: STREP

Project Identifier: IST-2002-507464

Source: FP6 eHealth Portfolio of Projects