Communications of the ACM
MEXT Society 5.0 Realization Research Support Project
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In recent years, innovations such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, robotics, and AI have become part of everyday life, helping people lead active, high-quality lives and creating a super-smart society. Society 5.0 was proposed by the Japanese government as a vision of a future society toward which Japan should aspire.a The society that Society 5.0 aims to develop is similar to the society the U.S. NSF's Smart & Connected Communities/Health projects aim to create. In 2018, Osaka University's "Initiative for Life Design Innovation (iLDi)" project was selected for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Society 5.0 Realization Research Support Program.b
The IoT has a variety of application domains, including health care.1 The goal of our iLDi project is to create innovations to maintain people's health and to improve illness using ICT. We are building a Personal Life Record (PLR), a database that adds daily life activity data to a Personal Health Record (PHR), and by comparing this with everyone's medical information, we try to provide timely support appropriate to each person's health situation. While PHR is a database of human medical and health information, PLR incorporates data about various daily activities such as regular habits, diet, exercise, and workplace and school activities.
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