ESSENCE Field Testing - DATASET

­­This repository contains data collected during the Field Testing of the H2020 project ESSENCE Empathic platform to personally monitor, Stimulate, enrich, and aSsist Elders aNd Children in their Environment; grant N.101016112.

Data are free to be used. In case of publication of new results, reference to the ESSENCE project must be added to the Acknowledgement section and the relative papers should be added to the Reference list.

Rationale

ESSENCE aims at transforming the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 in a huge opportunity that exploits technology toward a deep evolution of the services targeting vulnerable populations: non- or pre-frail seniors, and children of the first years of primary school. To contribute to the public health response in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, and preparedness for future emergencies, ESSENCE aims at boosting the creation of a new model of home-based care that relies on stimulation, remote monitoring, tele-assistance, and connection between users, families, and professionals.

The ESSENCE field testing involved two ecosystem, Seniors and Children.

Children ecosystem

Data are included in the ChildrenFieldTesting_SeriousGames.zip folder. They refer to the execution of Serious Games to anticipate the risk of handwriting delay from an age when handwriting is not mature yet.

Inside the compressed folder, the DataDescription.docx file explains the data structure of the other data.

Refer to the following papers for details:

Dui, L. G., Lunardini, F., Termine, C., Matteucci, M., Stucchi, N. A., Borghese, N. A., & Ferrante, S. (2020). A tablet app for handwriting skill screening at the preliteracy stage: Instrument validation study. JMIR serious games, 8(4), e20126. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/20126

Dui, L. G., Lomurno, E., Lunardini, F., Termine, C., Campi, A., Matteucci, M., & Ferrante, S. (2022). Identification and characterization of learning weakness from drawing analysis at the pre-literacy stage. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 21624. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26038-9

Seniors ecosystem

Data are included in the SeniorsFieldTesting_UnconstrainedHandwriting.zip folder. They refer to the execution of Serious Games to anticipate the risk of handwriting delay from an age when handwriting is not mature yet. The data provided refer to the execution of handwriting activity with a smart ink pen to identify early signs of cognitive decline from a real-life activity.

Inside the compressed folder, the DataDescriptionPenUnc.docx file explains the data structure of the other data.

Refer to the following paper for details regarding the smart ink pen:

Lunardini, F., Di Febbo, D., Malavolti, M., Cid, M., Serra, M., Piccini, L., Pedrocchi, A. L. G., Borghese, N. A., & Ferrante, S. (2021). A Smart Ink Pen for the Ecological Assessment of Age-Related Changes in Writing and Tremor Features. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 70, 4002613. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2020.3045838