{"title":"Ease of Use Considerations for Wearable Point-Of-Care Devices in Home Environments","authors":"J. Yao, S. Simmons, S. Warren","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624784","url":null,"abstract":"The sub-population with the greatest need for home healthcare services also demonstrates the greatest variation in their ability to operate devices, so ease of use is critically important for wearable devices used in home environments. In this scenario, \"ease of use\" has multiple connotations, each of which requires different design elements. This paper reviews recent progress in the areas of wearable devices and wireless sensor networks. It then summarizes recent efforts in the Medical Component Design Laboratory at Kansas State University to create wearable components that address ease of use via the incorporation of plug-and-play, wireless, and interoperability standards. Specifically, this project employed the IEEE/ISO 11073 and Bluetooth standards to achieve device auto-association, interoperability, and simple reconfigurability. Moreover, this paper stresses that, even with plug-and-play interactions between devices, human-device interactions are still desirable, especially when a user needs just-in-time information or device assistance. Human-device interactions, if properly directed, will enable patients to play a greater role in their care","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126711754","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}
D. Mack, M. Alwan, B. Turner, P. Suratt, R. Felder
{"title":"A Passive and Portable System for Monitoring Heart Rate and Detecting Sleep Apnea and Arousals: Preliminary Validation","authors":"D. Mack, M. Alwan, B. Turner, P. Suratt, R. Felder","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624795","url":null,"abstract":"The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Sleep Disorders Research Plan expresses a need for methods that can non-invasively monitor sleep characteristics. Forty subjects were tested using a novel, passive ballistocardiography-based system during an overnight study. We examined our system's ability to measure heart rate as compared to EKG while we also investigated our system's apnea and arousal detection capabilities as compared to conventional polysomnography. We found a strong correlation (r=0.972, p<0.0001) in average heart rate computed over 480 thirty-second epochs when our method was compared to EKG. Additionally, we achieved a sensitivity of 89.2% and specificity of 94.6% in the automated detection of apneas. Similarly we attained a sensitivity of 77.3% and a specificity of 96.2% in the detection of arousals. These preliminary results demonstrate the effectiveness of our portable ballistocardiography-based system as compared to polysomnography and show promise that high quality sleep assessment can be performed in a home environment","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129857069","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}