AI in Health: Urban Intervention

Physical activity such as walking provides an important nexus through which the built environment can affect health including chronic disease prevention and management, particularly in older adulthood. This component project of the SUTD Healthcare Wellness, Independence and Empowerment Research Programme seeks to understand health-optimized social-urban interaction via AI. Applying the built environment-health lens, we aim to combine the state-of-the-art urban planning approaches with advanced AI and Machine Learning techniques to study how the physical activity of walking can improve health and what kind of built environment can support the walking needs of both individual and community to promote more active, healthy lifestyles.

SUTD Tech Note

Note 1 – Strolling around a Singapore town: What makes a neighborhood ideal for walking?