Cognitive Sensing for the Future of Smart Health and Care

The healthcare industry is transforming at a rapid velocity that is offering new research and innovation opportunities based on AI-enabled sensing. With everincreasing health data from personal fitness trackers, connected medical devices, and other sensors that collect realtime information, healthcare platforms are among the earliest adopters of cognitive computintextlstrokethrugsystems that can understand, reason and learn while interacting with humans. In the care of neurodegenerative diseases, digital phenotypes were analyzed for prevention and intervention purposes. The keynote talk highlights the work on ICT assistance technologies for dementia with a focus on recent projects of the Human Factors Lab at JOANNEUM RESEARCH DIGITAL. This round trip starts with the household-based application of social robot Pepper that was particularly targeted to activate persons with dementia and to motivate them to adhere to multidomain gamified training. Furthermore, cognitive sensing is presented in terms of nonobtrusive eye tracking technology in VR and AR devices for the screening of cognitive decline during mindfulness and gamified executive function training. Finally, research trajectories for gaze interfaces in serious games for cognitive assessment and training are discussed from the view of monitoring neuropsychological profiles and with an outlook on future emerging technologies.�