EVENTS

Healthcare is largely reactive, with intensive monitoring triggered only during crises. The Personal Care Unit (PCU) reimagines services as continuous, personalized support embedded in daily life. This keynote outlines PCU as an integrated architecture built on three pillars: (1) comprehensive lifestyle optimization (with food computing as a cornerstone), (2) Personicles—personal chronicles that create narrative health timelines, and (3) multimodal health agents powered by generative AI that act as Personal Health Navigators, interpreting patterns and delivering context-aware guidance through natural interactions. Centered on the person—not the illness—the PCU augments human judgment rather than replacing it. The talk will cover implementation approaches, architectural requirements, and research directions spanning multimodal sensing, privacy-preserving edge computing, and service engineering—aimed at fundamentally redefining how health services integrate with everyday living.