Euromov-DHM
Euromov Digital Health in Motion
Research areas: Computer Science, Clinical Research, Science and Technology of Physical Activity and Sports
Director: Prof. Stéphane Perrey (University of Montpellier)
Co-director: Prof. Jacky Montmain (IMT Mines Alès)
The joint research unit (under the supervision of the University of Montpellier and IMT Mines Alès)EuroMov Digital Health in Motion aimsto promote cross-fertilization between artificial intelligence, movement sciences, and health in order to understand human behavioral plasticity, improve sensorimotor performance, and develop new therapeutic approaches, as well as to find a scientific metaphor that can inspire new digital approaches: machine learning or adaptive control of complex systems, human/machine interaction, and context-sensitive software systems. This line of research on "Digital Health in Motion" ultimately aims to better understand the etiology of human movement, considered as the level of integration of biological and cognitive phenomena, during our constant informational exchanges with the environment.
The research unit comprises approximately 100 people: 43 faculty members, including 39 permanent staff, 12 associate staff (fixed-term contracts, permanent university hospital staff), 9 research support staff, including 4 research assistants, 1 engineering assistant, and 3 technical assistants, around 30 doctoral students, and Master's students (research interns or engineering students).
The research unit is located at several sites: the EuroMov building (Campus Veyrassi UFR STAPS in Montpellier), which also hosts startups and
several experimental and technological platforms, a building on the Louis Leprince Ringuet technology campus (IMT Mines Alès) and premises dedicated to movement analysis for patients at the Nîmes (with a site in Le Grau du Roi) and Montpellier university hospitals and at the Beausoleil clinic (movement and sleep).
The unit is organized into three scientific themes and two cross-cutting areas:
- Theme: Perception In Action & Synchronization (PIAS): discovering the laws governing human perception in moving agents (perception in action) and human-environment synchronization in general.
- Theme: Monitoring and Improving Behaviors (MIB): providing users with advice on how to improve their behaviors in order to achieve better health, quality of life, or athletic performance, with a particular focus on software engineering.
- Learning and Complexity (LAC) theme: focuses on the study of human learning and complexity through health movement signatures, clinical data, and neural activity indicators, in particular by developing interpretable models.
- Cross-cutting theme Semantics and Taxonomy of Movement (SemTaxM): identify taxonomic classifications of movement and define a theory of movement-based semantics and semantics models rooted in specific contexts.
- AxetransversalFactory aimsto improve the reproducibility of results and accelerate translational research and technology transfer by providing standardized and documented approaches with an open data dissemination strategy.
Supervisors: University of Montpellier, IMT Mines Alès
Healthcare partners: Montpellier University Hospital, Nîmes University Hospital, Beausoleil Clinic, and Korian Group (R&D).
Scientific divisions: Biology and Health (BS); Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, and Systems (MIPS)
Doctoral Schools: Human Movement Sciences (SMH); Information, Structures, and Systems (I2S)
Research areas:Biomechanics, Computer Science, Neuroscience, Physiology, Psychology, Neuroergonomics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.Keywords:brain activity, physical activity, analysis, decision support, learning, cognition, data, fatigue, software engineering, image, interdisciplinarity, human-machine interface, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, modeling, movement, digital, optimization, chronic diseases, perception, performance, plasticity, rhythms, health, sleep, sport, taxonomy, technologies, translational, computer vision
