Wellbeing SIB Council (SIB-WellB)

Keywords:

Wellbeing, healthcare, assisted living, ambient intelligence, ubiquitous computing, pervasive healthcare

Scope:

To create innovative approaches to empower the society and its individuals though the use of technologies that may positively impact in their overall wellbeing state.

Key-Challenges:

• To develop technologies focused to integrally improve the different dimensions of human wellbeing
• To create unobtrusive sensing means to identify and acquire the relevant physical, physiological and psychological parameters associated to human wellbeing
• To develop comprehensive models of the human wellbeing state
• To produce innovative means to interface systems with humans for improving awareness of personal state and persuade for positive changes in lifestyle and habits impacting on better wellbeing
• To enable the universal accessibility of wellbeing technologies, including minorities and developing regions

Mission:

Modern societies, more than ever before, have the opportunity to positively impact on people’s wellbeing. This is due to the evolution of communications, computing and in general ICT technologies. There has never been a better time in when the research activity can have a strong influence on the improvement of individuals’ wellbeing within different spheres of every day life. These spheres comprise different dimensions, encompassing the broader state of individuals, including their physical and cognitive states, the emotional-social dimensions and the environmental factors affecting the person’s overall wellness. The mission of the Wellbeing Technologies SIB is to identify the main characteristics of these daily living spheres impacting on wellbeing in order to drive research and innovation towards addressing the main challenges that future research should face to empower individuals and society wellbeing.

Description:

The WellB SIB main focus is to provide a common place for the multidisciplinary community of people interested in the different dimensions of wellbeing to meet, discuss and innovate together in order to improve individuals and social wellbeing. These dimensions include the physical, cognitive, health, mental, social and environmental states involved in human life. In this way, the present SIB focus on improving quality of life and wellbeing through different technologies for specific domains dealing with management and monitoring of personal health, assisted life and safeguarding of general personal wellness state. Moreover, through these kind of domains, this SIB intends to empower not only people with a compromised state of personal wellbeing but also healthy people like their relatives, caregivers and in general people suitable of maintaining and improving their personal condition. In this way, the envisioned application scenarios include services available to anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing location, time and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and quality of healthcare and humans overall wellness state and their sense of connectedness with their social and physical environment.