MRG Research Objectives: The strategic objective of this MRG is to develop and implement interventions, solutions and systems in support of the next generation of eHealth and mHealth healthcare services. These will be based in a wide spectrum of technologies, ranging from smart, immersive virtual reality interventions in healthcare, smart eHealth home solutions and monitoring to big data analytics in healthcare.

Smart, Ubiquitous, and Participatory Technologies for Healthcare Innovation MRG focuses on smart, citizen-centered eHealth and mHealth interventions, leveraging mixed reality technologies, edge computing diagnostics, and big healthcare data analytics, underpinning P4 medicine (predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory). Basic and applied research efforts are directed towards empowering patients to become co-managers of their own health facilitating smart personalised interventions including mHealth and serious games applications for rehabilitation, chronic disease management, and healthy ageing, building on augmented and mixed reality applications, capitalizing near real-time cloud-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) data, and encompassing gamification strategies, unobtrusive edge diagnostics using miniaturized system-on-chip Internet of Things (IoT) biosensors, and social robotics interactions. Recent advances in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technologies provide new methods and tools for the development of novel and promising applications mainly for neurological and cancer rehabilitation. VR interventions have several advantages and are rapidly gaining ground as popular applications for different disease conditions.