Healthwear: medical technology becomes wearable

Pentland, Alex

doi:10.1109/mc.2004.1297238

Cited by 156 publications

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“…Body temperature is an important measurement factor for research on such areas as cardiac surgeries and sleep and circadian rhythm and is used for monitoring patient status and predicting risks [31,32]. As shown in Figure 6, body temperature can be measured using various sensors such as infrared (IR) sensors, thermistors, and thermocouples, and it can be monitored without inconvenience to the user life when a wearable device is used [33].…”

Section: Biological Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Biological-Signal-Based User-Interface System for Virtual-Reality Applications for Healthcare

2018

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Biosignal interfaces provide important data that reveal the physical status of a user, and they are used in the medical field for patient health status monitoring, medical automation, or rehabilitation services. Biosignals can be used in developing new contents, in conjunction with virtual reality, and are important factors for extracting user emotion or measuring user experience. A biological-signal-based user-interface system composed of sensor devices, a user-interface system, and an application that can extract biological-signal data from multiple biological-signal devices and be used by content developers was designed. A network-based protocol was used for unconstrained use of the device so that the biological signals can be freely received via USB, Bluetooth, WiFi, and an internal system module. A system that can extract biological-signal data from multiple biological-signal data and simultaneously extract and analyze the data from a virtual-reality-specific eye-tracking device was developed so that users who develop healthcare contents based on virtual-reality technology can easily use the biological signals.

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Section: Biological Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Biological-Signal-Based User-Interface System for Virtual-Reality Applications for Healthcare

2018

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“…Wearable sensors can measure limb movements, posture, and muscular activity, and can be applied to a range of clinical settings including gait analysis [60], [64], [73], activity classification [29], [52], athletic performance [3], [51], and neuromotor disease rehabilitation [49], [57]. In a typical scenario, a patient wears up to eight sensors (one on each limb segment) equipped with MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare

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In healthcare, there is a strong need to collect physiological data and sensor networking; this paper reviews recent studies and points to the need for future research.By JeongGil Ko, Chenyang Lu, Mani B. Srivastava, John A. Stankovic, Fellow IEEE, Andreas Terzis, and Matt Welsh ABSTRACT | Driven by the confluence between the need to collect data about people's physical, physiological, psychological, cognitive, and behavioral processes in spaces ranging from personal to urban and the recent availability of the technologies that enable this data collection, wireless sensor networks for healthcare have emerged in the recent years. In this review, we present some representative applications in the healthcare domain and describe the challenges they introduce to wireless sensor networks due to the required level of trustworthiness and the need to ensure the privacy and security of medical data. These challenges are exacerbated by the resource scarcity that is inherent with wireless sensor network platforms. We outline prototype systems spanning application domains from physiological and activity monitoring to large-scale physiological and behavioral studies and emphasize ongoing research challenges.

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“…M2M communication for healthcare relies on sensors to form a body (or personal) area network, which can be traced back to T. G. Zimmerman's master's thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1995, to enable intra-body communications. This idea was further fertilized by the wearable technology developed at MIT Media Laboratory for healthcare sensors [8] and even in fabric garment without any cable [9], to facilitate unlimited imagination healthcare, and to create a new dimension in networking challenges. In the early 21st century, IEEE project 802 standardized wireless personal area net- [7,[10][11][12][13][14], leveraging their different transmission characteristics and data rates.…”

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confidence: 99%