CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research will be present for the third consecutive year at the U.Porto Exhibition, which this year will take place from April 4 to 7 at the Largo Amor de Perdição (next to the Cordoaria Garden).
In this edition, CINTESIS will present 7 different activities associated to 7 og our research groups that work every day on innovative ideas seeking to improve people’s health, in the short term and using the potentialities of technology. During the 4 days of the event the researchers will take turns to participate, but the activities and challenges to the visitors will constant.
This year CINTESIS prepared an interactive game with more than 100 questions that promise to challenge the participants to check their knowledge on Health and Technology. There will be prizes … but only for the best.
In the morning of the first day, the ActiveAdvice project will feature a digital platform that gives advice to older people about products and services that can help them live healthy and autonomously. In the afternoon, the project Por Mais Saúde (For More Health) will promote healthy living habits with their App and children’s book, in which the main characters, Joca and Maria, children who want to be strong and healthy as superheroes, fight the villains “gula”, “publicidade”, “preguiça” and “molengão” (gluttony, publicity, laziness and sluggish).
On Friday, our visitors will try the tools we have developed to help track, monitor and self-manage respiratory and allergic diseases, which affect thousands of Portuguese. Try your best at this challenge.
On Saturday morning, technology and health will go hand in hand in an application developed by the iGest Health team, which aims to support cancer patients on chemotherapy, promoting self-care and improving quality of life. In the afternoon, Deus Ex Machina‘s team will be inviting people to experiment their prototype of telemonitoring for heart failure, a problem that is the main cause of hospitalization in people over 65 years of age.
On the last day of the event, those who are brave enough will be able to know the difficulties of a person living in a wheelchair and participate in the simulation of the action-research project, ICAVI, which promises to show the world from another perspective.
Finally, in the afternoon, a team of Nursing researchers, PT4Ageing, proposes a challenge regarding the causes and changes not perceived in the aging process and presents a balance test, an evaluation that can help avoid many falls. Show up, but do not fall!
Admission to the event is free!