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On December 7, 2023, an event popularizing the DYL-HP project – the International Digital Youth Health Platform to improve the health of young people around the world – took place at the Białystok University of Technology. The work of the university team developing the project is led by prof. Arkadiusz Mystkowski from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Białystok University of Technology.

45 students and teachers from the Vocational Education Center in Wysokie Mazowieckie took part in the Multiplier Event. Another 28 students participated in the event online. The project presentation was also attended by participants of the 11th International Staff Week organized by the International Cooperation Department of the University of Bialystok, during which 29 guests from 16 countries had the opportunity to learn about the project.

Students had the opportunity to use the functionalities of the developed mobile application of the Digital Youth Health Platform during exercises at the Academic Sports Center under the supervision of the trainer, Jolanta Grażyna Zuzda.

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

– This application will help people who would like to start exercising at home, and help people who have not had the courage to start exercising until now – says Mateusz Kudzinowski, a fourth-grade student of the mechatronics technician specialization at the Vocational Training Center in Wysokie Mazowiecki. .

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

Then, Multipier Event participants became acquainted with the equipment of selected laboratories of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the teaching offer of the Faculty.

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

The aim of the DYL-HP “Digital Youth Health Platform” project is to develop a virtual environment that will connect doctors – volunteers and users – patients. The platform will enable free live video-audio medical consultations, as well as remote meetings with yoga, pilates and fitness trainers, consultations with personal trainers and dieticians, personalized training programs, online sports exercises, and sports and medical guides. The target groups of platform users are: students, PhD students, school children, specialist doctors, trainers, dieticians, 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 recognize, identify and personalize selected features of users – patients, and thus support the work of doctors and trainers.

The second part of the application performs teleoperation tasks using haptic devices and remotely controlled manipulators to conduct surgeries and treatments.

Ultimately, the platform is 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 the project leader and Białystok University of Technology, as a partner. They are supported by social organizations: RESHA based in Berchem, Belgium, and Turkish organizations: DGH-ARGE Yazilim Danişmanlik Enerji Eğitim İnş. San. Tic. Ltd. Şti. in Malatya and Digital Robotic Life in Van. The budget of the entire project is EUR 354,610, of which EUR 45,035 is allocated to the Białystok University of Technology for building a web and mobile application.

The project will end in 2024 and its results will be available free of charge to users around the world.