Combining sustainability with gerontechnology: A holistic approach to optimizing aging
A. Ternès von Hattburg
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AbstractAI is one of the technologies in gerontechnology that can optimize and even revolutionize applications, processes, and analytical methods. We have been working in the area of AI for some years already and currently developing an AI-based software for a virtual self-learning system aimed at holistic healthy aging. Our focus is on strengthening self-healing powers, intuition, the five senses, and self-awareness, which can also serve as early detection. This approach promotes resource-oriented, sustainable and regenerative self-care, and finds a connection between sustainability and technologies such as AI to optimally support one's own health. Over the past months, we have started to develop and build an AI database that includes both many general scientific results in the form of texts, audio and videos, as well as health and lifestyle data from current own and foreign surveys. We have been collecting and analyzing concrete health data and lifestyle information from the first participants of our program since April 2024 to create individually oriented learning, knowledge, and application offerings in the areas of: 1. Mental health, 2. Nutrition, 3. Exercise, and 4. Lifestyle (sleep, communication, social environment and relationships, work and work habits, etc.). These offerings are provided based on AI-driven recommendation systems and our own media. In addition to informative media products, we offer tests, both individual and group tasks and challenges, that bring participants into virtual contact through interactivity. We have developed questionnaires that motivate participants to playfully enter their results on the four aforementioned topics. There is an initial questionnaire followed by shorter questionnaires that need to be filled out regularly to better determine developments and use them for software development. Currently, we are continuing to work on determining the status of participants as accurately as possible and preparing individual development paths using AI, enabling them to proceed at a suitable pace and take the next steps in terms of content, didactics, and methodology. The program is accompanied by motivational communication, such as via individual oriented bots. Our offering allows people, regardless of their location, current physical condition, and time constraints, to optimize their health holistically, independently or alongside medical applications, alone or interactively, with AI-supported, individually tailored offerings.Keywords: sustainable aging, AI Integration, services architecture, machine learning techniques
A. Ternès von Hattburg (2024). Combining sustainability with gerontechnology: A holistic approach to optimizing aging. Gerontechnology, 23(2), 1-1
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2024.23.s.952.opp