Welcome

The project develops an integrated theratainment solution for care, rehab and diagnostics. PLAYTIME motivates in a playful manner to perform personalized emotion-oriented exercise units to stimulate cognitive processes, to address physical activities and foster social inclusion. The objective is to motivate dementia users to enter a positive feedback cycle of periodic training with sensors that enable diagnostics on a daily basis, and to receive recommendations on the basis of these data that propose more personalized and better suited exercises for improved training.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the AAL Programme  of the European Union and by the Austrian BMVIT/FFG under the Agreement no 857334, the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW) and the Flanders Innovations & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO). It reflects only the author’s view and that the Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

 

Welcome

 

The project develops an integrated theratainment solution for care, rehab and diagnostics. PLAYTIME motivates in a playful manner to perform personalized emotion-oriented exercise units to stimulate cognitive processes, to address physical activities and foster social inclusion. The objective is to motivate dementia users to enter a positive feedback cycle of periodic training with sensors that enable diagnostics on a daily basis, and to receive recommendations on the basis of these data that propose more personalized and better suited exercises for improved training.

PLAYTIME Folder

The research leading to these results has received funding from the AAL Programme  of the European Union and by the Austrian BMVIT/FFG under the Agreement no 857334, the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW) and the Flanders Innovations & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO). It reflects only the author’s view and that the Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

 

MIRA – A Serious Game for the Estimation of Alzheimer’s Mental State

PLAYTIME at Alzheimer Café Eindhoven

PLAYTIME was presented at the Alzheimer Café in Eindhoven on 19 March 2018.
The aim of the presentation was to recruit study participants for the first field test.

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Playtime Workshop AAL FORUM Coimbra

The Playtime Workshop at the AAL Forum 2017 that was located in Coimbra from October 2-4.

PLAYTIME introduced in Dutch focus group

The serious game of PLAYTIME was introduced during a regular monthly Dutch focus group with people living with dementia and healthcare professionals on June 13th. Participants were enthusiastic about the game, and provided their first input regarding games and activities they prefer to do.

Project leader meeting Dutch funding agency ZonMw

PLAYTIME was presented at a project leader meeting from the Dutch funding agency ZonMw on June 30th. During this meeting, we met our national contact point G. Langerveld and several other project leaders, who positively welcomed PLAYTIME for its multimodel approach.

Kick-Off Meeting

The Kick-Off-Meeting of the Project took place in Graz (Austria) on May 2nd and 3rd 2017. All members had been welcomed by the Institutes Director Dr. Heinz Mayer. We had a very fruitful 2 days meeting.