A Smart-Phone-Based Health Management System Using a Wearable Ring-Type Pulse Sensor

Wu, Yuchi; Hsu, Wei-Hong; Chang, Chao-Shu; Yu, Wen-Ching; Huang, Wen-Liang; Chen, Meng-Jen

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29154-8_50

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“…Various types of sensors exist that can be classified in respect to their positioning towards the human body: sensors can be implanted into the body [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ] and used in various body parts such as in hips [ 6 ], they can be externally attached to bodies or be in the vicinity of bodies (wearable sensors) [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ] and they can be positioned in the environment such as walls and floors of a home [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ]. Sensors are used for various purposes in regards to disabled people, including but not limited to health monitoring [ 19 ], evacuation and rescue information [ 19 ], indoor navigation aid [ 20 ], smart home systems that aid disabled people to carry out daily activities in the safety and comfort of their homes [ 21 ], real time tracking of disabled people [ 22 ], sensor pillow systems [ 23 ], assistive living [ 24 ], home medical assistance [ 25 ], rehabilitation [ 8 ], physiological monitoring [ 11 ], as health managing system [ 26 ] and for mobile health [ 9 ].…”

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Sensors: Views of Staff of a Disability Service Organization

Wolbring

Leopatra

2013

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Sensors have become ubiquitous in their reach and scope of application. They are a technological cornerstone for various modes of health surveillance and participatory medicine—such as quantifying oneself; they are also employed to track people with certain as impairments perceived ability differences. This paper presents quantitative and qualitative data of an exploratory, non-generalizable study into the perceptions, attitudes and concerns of staff of a disability service organization, that mostly serve people with intellectual disabilities, towards the use of various types of sensor technologies that might be used by and with their clients. In addition, perspectives of various types of privacy issues linked to sensors, as well data regarding the concept of quantified self were obtained. Our results highlight the need to involve disabled people and their support networks in sensor and quantified-self discourses, in order to prevent undue disadvantages.

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