Digital Youth Life Health Platform (DYL-HP) Project Multiplier Event

Bialystok University of Technology hosted a dissemination event on 7 December 2023 for the DYL-HP project – Digital Youth Life Health Platform (DYL-HP) for improving the health of young people worldwide. The work of the university’s project development team is led by Assoc. Prof. Arkadiusz Mystkowski, DSc, PhD, Eng of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Bialystok University of Technology.

The Multiplier Event was attended by 45 students and teachers from the Vocational Training Centre in Wysokie Mazowieckie. A further 28 students participated in the event online. The presentation of the project was also attended by participants of the 11th International Staff Week organised by the BUT International Relations Office, during which 29 guests from 16 countries had the opportunity to learn about the project.

The students had the opportunity to use the functionalities of the developed mobile application of the Digital Youth Life Health Platform during their exercises in the Academic Sports Centre under the guidance of trainer Jolanta Grazyna Zuzda, MD, PhD, Eng.

Now, thanks to the application developed by Bialystok University of Technology in consortium with Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi University in Turkey, they will be able to create their own exercise plan and, in the future, receive free advice from a fitness trainer or a doctor.

– This app will help people who would like to start exercising at home, people who have not yet had the courage to start exercising, – says Mateusz Kudzinowski, a fourth-year student of mechatronics at the Vocational Training Centre in Wysokie Mazowieckie.

– The app will definitely help young people, because not everyone knows how to start exercising, and the app can motivate them to act and suggest sample exercises to get them started, – adds Dominik Szamaszko, also from the school in Wysokie Mazowieckie.

Afterwards, participants of the Multiplier Event were introduced to the equipment of selected laboratories of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the teaching offer of the Faculty.

The event culminated with the presentation of certificates of participation to all participants.

The aim of the DYL-HP ‘Digital Youth Life Health Platform’ project is to develop a virtual environment that will connect volunteer doctors and user-patients. The platform will enable live video-audio free medical consultations, as well as remote meetings with yoga, pilates and fitness trainers, consultations with personal trainers and nutritionists, personalised training programmes, online sports exercises, sports and medical guides. The target user groups of the platform are: students, PhD students, school children, specialist doctors, trainers, nutritionists, physical education teachers, etc.

The platform will be distinguished by an advanced human-machine interface, in which artificial intelligence algorithms based on neural networks and deep machine learning will be able to recognise, identify and personalise selected characteristics of user-patients and thus support the work of doctors and trainers.

The second part of the application will perform teleoperative tasks using haptic devices and remote-controlled manipulators to guide operations and treatments.

Ultimately, the platform is expected to work both as a mobile application (Android and iOS operating systems) and as a web application on popular browsers (Opera, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox).

Two universities are involved in the project: Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi (Turkey) as a project leader and Bialystok University of Technology as a partner. They are supported by social organisations: RESHA, based in Berchem, Belgium, and the Turkish DGH-ARGE Yazilim Danişmanlik Enerji Eğitim İnş. San. Tic. Ltd. Şti. in Malatya and Digital Robotic Life in Van. The budget for the entire project is €354,610, of which €45,035 goes to Bialystok University of Technology to build the web and mobile application.

The project will end in 2024 and is expected to be available free of charge to users worldwide.