DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8208391
title: ESSENCE Field Testing - DATASET

description: ­­This repository contains data collected during the Field Testing of the H2020 project<strong> ESSENCE </strong>Empathic platform to personally monitor, Stimulate, enrich, and aSsist Elders aNd Children in their Environment; grant N.101016112. Data are free to be used. In case of publication of new results, <strong>reference to the ESSENCE project</strong> must be added to the Acknowledgement section <strong>and the relative paper</strong><strong>s</strong> should be added to the Reference list. <em><strong>Rationale</strong></em> <strong>ESSENCE</strong> aims at transforming the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 in a huge opportunity that exploits technology toward a deep evolution of the services targeting vulnerable populations: non- or pre-frail seniors, and children of the first years of primary school. To contribute to the public health response in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, and preparedness for future emergencies, <strong>ESSENCE</strong> aims at boosting the creation of a new model of home-based care that relies on stimulation, remote monitoring, tele-assistance, and connection between users, families, and professionals. The <strong>ESSENCE</strong> field testing involved two ecosystem, <strong>Seniors</strong> and <strong>Children</strong>. <em><strong>Children ecosystem</strong></em> Data are included in the <strong>ChildrenFieldTesting_SeriousGames.zip</strong> folder. They refer to the execution of Serious Games to anticipate the risk of handwriting delay from an age when handwriting is not mature yet. Inside the compressed folder, the <strong>DataDescription.docx</strong> file explains the data structure of the other data. Refer to the following papers for details: <em>Dui, L. G., Lunardini, F., Termine, C., Matteucci, M., Stucchi, N. A., Borghese, N. A., & Ferrante, S. (2020). </em><em>A tablet app for handwriting skill screening at the preliteracy stage: Instrument validation study. JMIR serious games, 8(4), e20126. DOI: </em><em>https://doi.org/10.2196/20126</em> <em>Dui, L. G., Lomurno, E., Lunardini, F., Termine, C., Campi, A., Matteucci, M., & Ferrante, S. (2022). </em><em>Identification and characterization of learning weakness from drawing analysis at the pre-literacy stage. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 21624. DOI: </em><em>https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26038-9</em> <em><strong>Seniors ecosystem</strong></em> Data are included in the <strong>SeniorsFieldTesting_UnconstrainedHandwriting.zip</strong> folder. They refer to the execution of Serious Games to anticipate the risk of handwriting delay from an age when handwriting is not mature yet. The data provided refer to the execution of handwriting activity with a smart ink pen to identify early signs of cognitive decline from a real-life activity. Inside the compressed folder, the <strong>DataDescriptionPenUnc.docx</strong> file explains the data structure of the other data. Refer to the following paper for details regarding the smart ink pen: <em>Lunardini, F., Di Febbo, D., Malavolti, M., Cid, M., Serra, M., Piccini, L., Pedrocchi, A. L. G., Borghese, N. A., & Ferrante, S. (2021). </em><em>A Smart Ink Pen for the Ecological Assessment of Age-Related Changes in Writing and Tremor Features. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 70, 4002613. DOI: </em><em>10.1109/TIM.2020.3045838</em>