{"title":"A biomechanical analysis system of posture","authors":"A. Bucciero, S. Sabato, M. Zappatore","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254944","url":null,"abstract":"The number of scenarios that may gain benefits from postural analysis performed with sustainable economic costs is virtually limitless. They range from clinical and outpatient studies to sport and dance practicing, from posture learning and replication for humanoid robots to body control techniques. Therefore the authors firmly believe that the Microsoft Kinect, a novel optical markerless, model-free motion/capture commercial system can pave the way towards this direction due to its ease of usage and its low costs. In this paper, a Model-View-Controller based framework for Kinect-based postural analysis is presented in terms of both system architecture and selected test environment. A first prototypal version of the system has been employed to perform a preliminary stabilometric analysis in a real test case, in order to illustrate the adopted natural user interface and the overall system behavior.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132823093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Paredes, Ran Gilad-Bachrach, M. Czerwinski, A. Roseway, Kael Rowan, Javier Hernández
{"title":"PopTherapy: coping with stress through pop-culture","authors":"P. Paredes, Ran Gilad-Bachrach, M. Czerwinski, A. Roseway, Kael Rowan, Javier Hernández","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255070","url":null,"abstract":"Stress is considered to be a modern day \"global epidemic\"; so given the widespread nature of this problem, it would be beneficial if solutions that help people to learn how to cope better with stress were scalable beyond what individual or group therapies can provide today. Therefore, in this work, we study the potential of smart-phones as a pervasive medium to provide therapy for the general population - \"popular therapy\". The work melds two novel contributions: first, a micro-intervention authoring process that focuses on repurposing popular web applications as stress management interventions; and second, a machine-learning based intervention recommender system that learns how to match interventions to individuals and their temporal circumstances over time. After four weeks, participants in our user study reported higher self-awareness of stress, lower depression-related symptoms and having learned new simple ways to deal with stress. Furthermore, participants receiving the machine-learning recommendations without option to select different ones showed a tendency towards using more constructive coping behaviors.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115168715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Luque-Moreno, C. Rodríguez-Blanco, Á. Oliva-Pascual-Vaca, M. Agostini, P. Kiper, A. Turolla
{"title":"Virtual reality to improve lower extremity function, kinematic parameters, and walking speed post-stroke: preliminary results","authors":"C. Luque-Moreno, C. Rodríguez-Blanco, Á. Oliva-Pascual-Vaca, M. Agostini, P. Kiper, A. Turolla","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255336","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Virtual reality (VR) is a tool that can enrich physiotherapy treatment in individuals with stroke. The increased use of feedback provides them with useful additional information to improve walking speed, kinematics, and functionality of the lower extremity (LE). Our aim is to evaluate these changes and describe the intervention in two individuals with stroke. Case description: A 58-year-old man (4.5 months post-stroke) and a 49-year-old man (3 months post-stroke) followed a VR training to improve kinematics, functionality, and gait speed. Intervention: Each participant underwent 15 sessions (VR treatment one hour daily in addition to the one-hour CP program). Outcomes: The LE Fugl-Meyer scale (FM) improved in both participants; in motor evaluation, participant 1 increased 4 points and patient 2 increased 6 points. Participant 1 was highly functional but had difficulty in the race at baseline, while participant 2 improved on the Ambulatory Functional Scale (FAC) from 3/5 to 4/5 and the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) from 50 to 53, with a constant permanent score of 122/126 on the Functional Independence Measure scale (FIM). Both participants improved the kinematic parameters in leg stance on plegic LE (showed a decrease in the spatial error and in submovements) and walking speed > Minimally Clinically Important Difference (MCID) (participant 1: improvement of 0.16m/s, participant 2: 0.34m/s). Discussion: Results of the combined treatment of CP and VR treatment are positive in improving the performance of motor tasks and stability in leg stance on the plegic side, with improvement of functionality during walking. Controlled studies are needed to determine the role of VR in these improvements.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121327730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara Balderas-Díaz, Kawtar Benghazi Akhlaki, J. L. Garrido, Gabriel Guerrero-Contreras, E. Miró
{"title":"A service-based platform for monitoring and diagnosis of patients with SAHS symptoms","authors":"Sara Balderas-Díaz, Kawtar Benghazi Akhlaki, J. L. Garrido, Gabriel Guerrero-Contreras, E. Miró","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255365","url":null,"abstract":"The Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome (SAHS) is a symptomatology that affects between 2-5% of world populations. This syndrome presents serious consequences in daily life of the people that suffer it and its detection requires an analysis in a hospital with specialized professionals and medical equipment. Because of this, long waiting lists exist. In this paper a platform for remotely SAHS monitoring and diagnosis is presented, which aims to reduce waiting lists and provide an alternative to current systems of diagnosis in a more flexible way. The proposal mainly consists of a platform based on the Service Architecture Oriented (SOA) approach and a modular design has been followed in order to facilitate an incremental number of patients (scalability) and add new functionality (extensibility).","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123489767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Munirul M. Haque, F. Kawsar, Mohammad Adibuzzaman, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Richard R. Love, Rumana Dowla, D. Roe, Tahmina Ferdousy, Reza Salim
{"title":"Findings of mobile based palliative care system: towards formulating a generic framework for measuring QoL","authors":"Munirul M. Haque, F. Kawsar, Mohammad Adibuzzaman, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Richard R. Love, Rumana Dowla, D. Roe, Tahmina Ferdousy, Reza Salim","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254960","url":null,"abstract":"Here we present the final analysis result of e-ESAS, a mobile based symptom monitoring and management system for terminally ill breast cancer (BC) patients in rural Bangladesh. These patients need palliative care support whose goal is to meet patients' social, spiritual and psychological needs as well as alleviating pain and other symptoms. But in the context of rural Bangladesh, doctors find it very difficult to control even the most significant symptom 'pain' due to a lack of history of symptom data. In this scenario we have deployed e-ESAS which has been used by 10 patients to submit symptom values from their home for 10 months (Nov '11- Sep '12). Our results show how e-ESAS with motivational videos not only helped the patients to have a 'dignified' life but also helped the doctors to achieve the goals of palliative care. Also the analyzed results are shown in 4 categories to appropriately measure the contribution of e-ESAS in improving the quality of life (QoL) of the patients.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122648641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Holland, R. Wright, A. Wing, Thomas Crevoisier, Oliver Hödl, Maxime Canelli
{"title":"A gait rehabilitation pilot study using tactile cueing following hemiparetic stroke","authors":"S. Holland, R. Wright, A. Wing, Thomas Crevoisier, Oliver Hödl, Maxime Canelli","doi":"10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2014.255357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH.2014.255357","url":null,"abstract":"Recovery of walking function is a major goal of post-stroke rehabilitation. Audio metronomic cueing has been shown to improve gait, but can be impractical and inconvenient to use in a community setting, for example outdoors where awareness of traffic is needed, as well as being unsuitable in environments with high background noise, or for those with a hearing impairment. Silent lightweight portable tactile cueing, if similarly successful, has the potential to take the benefits out of the lab and into everyday life. The Haptic Bracelets, designed and built at the Open University originally for musical purposes, are self-contained lightweight wireless devices containing a computer, Wi-Fi chip, accelerometers and low-latency vibrotactiles with a wide dynamic range. In this paper we outline gait rehabilitation problems and existing solutions, and present an early pilot in which the Haptic Bracelets were applied to post-stroke gait rehabilitation.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125082490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Bonnechère, L. Omelina, B. Jansen, M. Rooze, S. Jan
{"title":"Balance training using specially developed serious games for cerebral palsy children, a feasibility study","authors":"B. Bonnechère, L. Omelina, B. Jansen, M. Rooze, S. Jan","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255332","url":null,"abstract":"Cerebral Palsy (CP) leads to various clinical signs mainly induced by spasticity. Among these ones impaired balance and posture are very common. Traditional physical therapy exercise programs are focusing on this aspect but it is difficult to motivate patients to regularly perform these exercises. Specially developed serious games (SG) could therefore be an interesting option to motivate children to perform specific exercise for balance improvement. This paper presents a feasibility study including 10 CP children. Patients received 4 sessions of SG included into conventional therapy. Trunk control and balance were assessed using Trunk Control Motor Scale (TCMS) before and after intervention. Children presented a significant improvement in TCMS after interventions (37,6 (8.7) and 39.6 (9.5) before and after intervention respectively, p=0.04). SG could therefore be an interesting option to integrate in the conventional treatment of CP children.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125263326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Postolache, Mario Ribeiro, P. Girão, J. Pereira, G. Postolache
{"title":"Unobtrusive sensing for gait rehabilitation assessment","authors":"O. Postolache, Mario Ribeiro, P. Girão, J. Pereira, G. Postolache","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255364","url":null,"abstract":"A set of sensing devices that wireless transmit information on gait rehabilitation are presented. Aiming an objective evaluation of patient progress during physiotherapy sessions, we implemented a set of sensing devices that are wearable, such as a smart inertial measurement unit (IMU), or are embedded in walking aids, such as a microwave Doppler radar array. The data delivered by the smart sensing units designed for gait rehabilitation purpose are wireless transmitted to an advanced processing server that provides synthetic information to the physiotherapist that use a mobile device to access the available services. Elements of IMU sensor network and smart walker design and implementation for gait assessment, and the experimental results are included in the paper.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117106121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phil Adams, Mashfiqui Rabbi, Tauhidur Rahman, M. Matthews, A. Voida, Geri Gay, Tanzeem Choudhury, Stephen Voida
{"title":"Towards personal stress informatics: comparing minimally invasive techniques for measuring daily stress in the wild","authors":"Phil Adams, Mashfiqui Rabbi, Tauhidur Rahman, M. Matthews, A. Voida, Geri Gay, Tanzeem Choudhury, Stephen Voida","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254959","url":null,"abstract":"Identifying episodes of significant stress is a challenging problem with implications for personal health and interface adaptation. We present the results of a study comparing multiple modalities of minimally intrusive stress sensing in real-world environments, collected from seven participants as they carried out their everyday activities over a ten-day period. We compare the data streams produced by sensors and self-report measures, in addition to asking the participants, themselves, to reflect on the accuracy and completeness of the data that had been collected. Finally, we describe the range of participant experiences---both positive and negative---as they reported their everyday stress levels. As a result of this study, we demonstrate that voice-based stress sensing tracks with electrodermal activity and self-reported stress measures in real-world environments and we identify limitations of various sensing approaches.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121725434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating auditory contexts and their impacts on hearing aid outcomes with mobile phones","authors":"S. S. Hasan, O. Chipara, Yu-Hsiang Wu, N. Aksan","doi":"10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.254952","url":null,"abstract":"This paper evaluates the relationship between auditory contexts, hearing aid features, and hearing outcomes based on real-world measurements. We use a mobile phone application to concurrently evaluate the auditory contexts and hearing aid outcomes using Ecological Momentary Assessments. The collected dataset includes 3437 surveys collected from nineteen patients over ten months. Our analysis indicates that the most frequent listening activities were conversations (32.7% of the time) and listening to media (30.7% of the time), commonly occurring at home, in predominantly quiet environments. Subjects do not attribute equal importance to hearing well in all auditory contexts: it is more important to hear well in contexts that involve social interactions. We show that hearing aid outcomes measures are moderately correlated. By leveraging on these correlations, we propose a method of combining measurements of hearing aid outcomes into a single score to reduce measurement error. Finally, we show that it is possible to discriminate between poor and good hearing aid outcomes with an accuracy of 78% solely based on auditory contexts and hearing aid features. This shows the central role that auditory contexts play in understanding hearing aid outcomes in situ.","PeriodicalId":120856,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121749437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}