Sabrina Guye

Roche

This article describes the coaching strategies of the NESTORE e-coach, a virtual coach for promoting healthier lifestyles in older age. The novelty of the NESTORE project is the definition of a multi-domain personalized pathway where the e-coach accompanies the user throughout different structured and non-structured coaching activities and recommen...

This chapter discusses the theoretical behaviour change framework and its integration and implementation of behaviour change techniques that form the conceptual psychological basis for innovative but efficient coaching approach. We review the current state of e-coaching solutions for older adults that can be found in the literature and identify gap...

Social integration is a key predictor of health in later life, as is cognitive functioning. This chapter describes the evidence related to levels of and interventions on social integration and cognitive functioning for older adults and outlines how this evidence was translated into the personalized coaching approach in NESTORE in both of these doma...

In recent years, due to the rise in availability of unstructured big data and technological affordances, there has been a proverbial “explosion” of research within the field of sentiment analysis and affective computing, facilitating the study of in-situ communicated emotion and its accurate detection at an unprecedented scale. Increasingly the emo...

Based on the international guidelines on healthy lifestyles for older adults in different well-being domains, this chapter describes the general approach of personalized coaching proposed in NESTORE by the domain experts involved in the project. The coaching domains that are the basis of the NESTORE virtual coach include physical activity, nutritio...

Normal aging is generally associated with deterioration in a number of cognitive abilities, although large individual differences in size and progression of age-related cognitive change exist. Cognitive training interventions have become an increasingly important object of research, aiming at the stabilization and improvement of cognitive abilities...

In the context of the fourth revolution in healthcare technologies, leveraging monitoring and personalization across different domains becomes a key factor for providing useful services to maintain and promote well-being. This is even more crucial for older people, with aging being a complex multi-dimensional and multi-factorial process which can l...

Virtual Coaches, also known as e-coaches, are a disruptive technology in healthcare. Indeed, among other usages, they might provide cost-effective solutions for increasing human wellbeing in different domains, such as physical, nutritional, cognitive, social, and emotional. This paper presents a systematic review of virtual coaches specifically aim...

The potential of working memory (WM) training to enhance cognitive abilities has been attracting a strong academic and public interest. The effectiveness of working memory training in terms of producing transfer to untrained WM tasks and to other related cognitive abilities such as fluid intelligence, however, is still under debate, with several st...

This paper describes the NESTORE e-coaching strategy and system architecture and its unique approach to support older adults to achieve a healthier lifestyle. The novelty of the NESTORE project is the definition of a multi-domain personalized pathway where the e-coach accompany the user throughout different structured and non-structured coaching ac...

Little is still known about the neuroanatomical substrates related to changes in specific cognitive abilities in the course of healthy aging, and the existing evidence is predominantly based on cross-sectional studies. However, to understand the intricate dynamics between developmental changes in brain structure and changes in cognitive ability, lo...

Objectives: An engaged lifestyle has been linked to measures of functional ability in everyday life. However, the underlying mechanism of this link is still understudied. We propose working memory as a potential mediator of this relation. Method: Modelling data of 158 older adults with a latent-variables approach, we examined whether working mem...

Physiological status and physical activity, social interaction, cognitive and emotional status, and nutrition in older people are the key target areas addressed by the NESTORE project. It is aimed at developing a multi-domain solution for users, able to prolong their functional, social, and cognitive capacity by empowering, stimulating, and unobtru...

Healthy cognitive functioning is a key aspect of successful aging and a crucial component of the well-being of older adults. On the group level, crystallized abilities (e.g., factual knowledge) remain relatively stable until old age, fluid cognitive abilities (e.g., working memory), however, decline gradually across the lifespan. Therefore, and in...

Cognitive training interventions have become increasingly popular as a potential means to cost-efficiently stabilize or enhance cognitive functioning across the lifespan. Large training improvements have been consistently reported on the group level, with, however, large differences on the individual level. Identifying the factors contributing to t...

The question of whether working memory training leads to generalized improvements in untrained cognitive abilities is a longstanding and heatedly debated one. Previous research provides mostly ambiguous evidence regarding the presence or absence of transfer effects in older adults. Thus, to draw decisive conclusions regarding the effectiveness of w...

Normal aging is generally associated with deterioration in a number of cognitive abilities, although large individual differences in size and progression of age-related cognitive change exist. Cognitive training interventions have become an increasingly important object of research, aiming at the stabilization and improvement of cognitive abilities...