In recent years, mental and psychosomatic disorders in children and adolescents have increased significantly and are having a considerable impact on their healthy development. Looking at the current care situation, it is clear that many children and adolescents have insufficient access to effective treatment options. This often leads to long periods of absence from school. There is a need for treatment approaches that support classic psychotherapeutic measures and interactively teach children helpful strategies for pain reduction.
VINNIE aims to create an innovative comprehensive system that involves all parties in the treatment – parents, therapists and the child – and also offers a user interface tailored to their needs. For children, this is achieved through interaction with the cuddly toy, while parents are involved via an app and therapists via a patient dashboard. This holistic involvement of all participants enables innovative treatment approaches that have not yet been realised in this form, thus taking digital support for therapeutic processes to a new level.
- Development of an interaction API that, for the first time, enables external hardware peripherals – such as an interactive, physical cuddly toy or external sensors – to be seamlessly integrated into the therapy system.
- Embedding complex algorithms and AI models for decision-making and control into the system.
- Development of an innovative overall system that not only involves all parties involved in the treatment, but also offers a user interface tailored to their needs.
movisens is significantly involved in the development of the overall technical system, particularly in integrating the individual components into a functional demonstrator using the TherapyDesigner platform and an interaction API to be developed as part of the project.
