SmartCHANGE
May 1, 2023
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Funding: Horizon Europe · May 2023 – May 2027
The SmartCHANGE project addresses the shift from communicable to non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) in developed countries. According to WHO, more than 70% of deaths worldwide are attributed to NCDs, with projected costs rising from 5.5 trillion € (2010) to over 12 trillion € by 2030. Most NCDs share risk factors including obesity, low physical fitness, poor nutrition, and sedentary behavior. The project aims to create trustworthy, AI-based decision-support tools for assessing NCD risk in children and youth.
Objectives
- Build accurate machine learning models for predicting lifetime NCD risk (cardiovascular and metabolic disease) in children and youth
- Ensure risk-prediction models and AI tools are trustworthy
- Develop tools for health professionals and citizens to improve health outcomes
- Engage users in requirements elicitation and participatory design
- Conduct proof-of-concept studies across four real-world healthcare scenarios in different countries
- Develop implementation recommendations and dissemination strategies
- Create an exploitation and sustainability plan
Authors
Professor
Silvia Santini is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of USI since September 2016, where she co-leads the People-Centered Computing Lab together with Prof. Marc Langheinrich. From July 2014 until August 2016 she held an Associate Professor position at TU Dresden, where she led the Embedded Systems Lab. From October 2011 until July 2014 she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of TU Darmstadt, Germany, where she led the Wireless Sensor Networks Lab. From 2009 until 2011 she was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Friedemann Mattern’s Distributed Systems Group at ETH Zurich, and from November 2010 until February 2011 she joined Leonidas Guibas’s research group at Stanford University as a visiting scholar. Silvia completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Friedemann Mattern at ETH Zurich in 2009, and graduated in Telecommunication Engineering (with honors) from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in May 2004.