J. Benavides, B. Demianyk, R. McLeod, M. Friesen, M. Laskowski, K. Ferens, S. Mukhi
{"title":"3G Smartphone technologies for generating personal social network contact distributions and graphs","authors":"J. Benavides, B. Demianyk, R. McLeod, M. Friesen, M. Laskowski, K. Ferens, S. Mukhi","doi":"10.1109/HISB.2011.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISB.2011.2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel means of collecting and analyzing personal social network data, using 3G Smartphone that support Bluetooth connectivity. The application discovers and logs other close-proximity Bluetooth-discoverable devices, and this can be used to infer individuals' proximity, contact duration, as well as geographical location information. The contact data are presented in terms of distributions and visualization tools for evolving contact graphs. Finally, contact data are then demonstrated to be of utility in estimating the potential of the spread of a contact-based infectious disease, where a vector of transmission is proximity to infected agents.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127369434","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}
Jia-Kuan Lin, Po-Hsun Cheng, Yen Su, Shao-Yu Wang, Hsiang-Wen Lin, Hsiao-Chi Hou, Wen-Cheng Chiang, Ssu-Wei Wu, J. Luh, Mei-Ju Su
{"title":"Augmented reality serious game framework for rehabilitation with personal health records","authors":"Jia-Kuan Lin, Po-Hsun Cheng, Yen Su, Shao-Yu Wang, Hsiang-Wen Lin, Hsiao-Chi Hou, Wen-Cheng Chiang, Ssu-Wei Wu, J. Luh, Mei-Ju Su","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026743","url":null,"abstract":"Users interact with most electronic entertainment games via some specific electronic sensors, which are not part of the existing equipment in most household. As well, some electronic entertainment games claim to have medical rehabilitative effects. This research designs a series of web-based serious games (SGs) for rehabilitation utilization with a proposed framework that lets family users easily connect through the Internet without the need for special sensors. This system includes diverse SGs for different rehabilitation levels. Users can operate these SGs via mouse or hand movements. Therefore, it is not necessary for patients to buy or rent any extra rehabilitation equipment; all that is required is a personal computer at home. Some of these SGs are adapted to augmented reality technology. This system also connects directly with personal health records in order to log every rehabilitation activity. In addition, social networks, such as Facebook, can be used for connecting rehabilitation patients at home with each other. By simplifying access, this rehabilitation SG system increases the frequency of rehabilitative activity of patients at home.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115146580","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":"Enhancing medicine adherence through multifaceted personalized medicine management","authors":"Min-Hui Foo, J. C. Chua, J. Ng","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026761","url":null,"abstract":"Medicine adherence is a growing problem that affects not only patients but also the healthcare industry. In this short paper, we represent a brief overview of the severity of medicine non-adherence, especially to elderly patients of chronic conditions, and the reasons behind the phenomenon. A generic survey of the existing methods of interventions to aid in medicine adherence is then discussed, followed by the identification of the lacking areas that such interventions could not address. The need for a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates features of personalized medicine management towards addressing the problem is then explored, investigating the possible solutions through the establishment of concordance and instilling behavioral changes in patients through education and motivational strategies. The paper will then focus on an ongoing research and development work in the form of a medicine dispenser which attempts to bring under a single platform the multifaceted approach to address medicine adherence and the benefits that ensue.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"448 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123055892","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":"Bandwidth allocation in view of EMI on medical equipments in healthcare monitoring systems","authors":"D. Lin, F. Labeau","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026747","url":null,"abstract":"To enhance the capacity of patients supported by in-hospital wireless monitoring systems, a bandwidth allocation scheme for the transmission of medical data in the WLAN is proposed. The problem of bandwidth allocation, subject to limited wireless bandwidth, quality of service (QoS) requirements of medical data transmission, and electromagnetic interference is modeled as an optimization problem. To solve this problem, we propose an algorithm based on genetic theory and analyze the computation time of this algorithm. Finally, based on this algorithm, we analyze the capacity of patients supported by the monitoring system.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116890308","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}
Wen-Cheng Chiang, Po-Hsun Cheng, Mei-Ju Su, Heng-Shuen Chen, Ssu-Wei Wu, Jia-Kuan Lin
{"title":"Socio-health with personal mental health records: Suicidal-tendency observation system on Facebook for Taiwanese adolescents and young adults","authors":"Wen-Cheng Chiang, Po-Hsun Cheng, Mei-Ju Su, Heng-Shuen Chen, Ssu-Wei Wu, Jia-Kuan Lin","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026784","url":null,"abstract":"Beginning in 2009 the second-leading cause of death for Taiwanese aged 15 to 24 has been suicide, accounting for 12.4% of deaths that year in this group and rising in the years since. The Taiwan Suicide Prevention Center (TSPC) provides a modest mental survey (MMS), also called the “feeling thermometer”, for evaluating individual psychological condition. The MMS has determined suicidal tendency with at least 85% precision. It has been observed that the most effective method for getting youth to take the MMS is to include it casually in various popular activities. In collaboration with the TSPC, the research team developed a suicidal-tendency observation system on some popular social web sites such as Facebook. Taiwan's youth can simply participate in the MMS, and the results, with required personal information, are stored in the personal mental health records in the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) standard international format. The service went online at the end of 2010. The TSPC can initiate contact with members of the high-risk group immediately via the system's alerts. In addition, youth can be made self-aware through the MMS and so visit mental health physicians to obtain effective guidance.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"7 s3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120833886","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":"Correlation between real and simulated data of the activity of the elderly person living independently in a Health Smart Home","authors":"T. Hadidi, N. Noury","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026788","url":null,"abstract":"Modeling the behavior of a system from observation is the first step in understanding a phenomenon. The model then opens the way to simulation in order to reproduce the behavior of the real system with the flexibility to modify, adjust and play with various scenarios. In this paper, we present a simulator of the activity of elderly persons in a Health Smart Home using the HMM “Hidden Markov Model”. This simulator aims at modeling the effects of the loss of autonomy for the elderly living independently. We test several correlation methods to evaluate the similarity between real and simulated data. The experimental data was obtained in the HIS “Habitat Intelligent pour la Santé” within the framework of the French national “AILISA” project.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116741084","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":"Development of visualization and performance evaluation testbed for Wireless Body Area Network","authors":"Alex Wai, Wei Ni, R. Hsieh, Y. Ge","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026746","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the advances made in sensing, computing and networking, continuous monitoring and just-in-time prevention through Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) in healthcare becomes a promising approach. In order to support healthcare needs, WBAN must achieve reliable data delivery and efficient resource management. To develop such healthcare solutions, understanding of system operations and performance evaluation in realistic settings beforehand will be an essential step. The main requirement is to visualize detailed node states and protocol operations considering RF channel characteristics around the body and their correlation on dynamic body postures. In this paper, we present the design and development of a testbed for WBAN that supports visualization of network operations as well as evaluation of system performance. We also identify challenges and requirements for developing WBAN healthcare applications. Then, we explain the system architecture and implementation as well as the experiment design and scenarios related to the proposed testbed.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124782040","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}
António Rodrigues, Carlos Resende, Luis Carvalho, Pedro Saleiro, F. Abrantes
{"title":"Performance analysis of an adaptable home healthcare solution","authors":"António Rodrigues, Carlos Resende, Luis Carvalho, Pedro Saleiro, F. Abrantes","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026730","url":null,"abstract":"The ongoing demographic changes in the European population are consistently stressing healthcare systems with an increasing number of elderly and chronically ill patients. In order to reach an economically and socially viable solution, home healthcare monitoring systems have been exploited. In this paper, we present the eCAALYX project, a manageable, expandable, inter-operable and low-cost Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solution. Specifically we focus on the Home Gateway component. The eCAALYX Home Gateway relies in the use of open standardized protocols, as well as a modular architecture in order to create an unifying layer between sensors from several manufacturers and different caretaker entities. The performance analysis of our Home Gateway implementation indicates that such a system can run reliably on currently available off-the-shelf equipment, suggesting the practicability of a real-world deployment.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123910784","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. Estevez, Jian-feng Wei, A. Kailas, David Fuentealba, G. Chang
{"title":"Very-high-throughput millimeter-wave system oriented for health monitoring applications","authors":"C. Estevez, Jian-feng Wei, A. Kailas, David Fuentealba, G. Chang","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026753","url":null,"abstract":"Millimeter-wave transmission systems allow for very high throughput rates and broad bandwidths using wireless technology. Most Body Area Networks (BANs) work in the high MHz or few GHz range, which limit the channel capacity of the system. If the bandwidth is narrow, only low spectrally-efficient modulation techniques can be utilized. In this study an energy-efficient radio-over-fiber media access control protocol using the unlicensed 60-GHz millimeter-wave (mm-wave) band is proposed. The protocol can be best described as an algorithm that generates an isometric distribution of the available frequency-time resources and services the slave motes in monochromatic groups. The master mote builds a frequency-time two-dimensional grid that organizes the chronological service order of this FD-TDMA hybrid protocol. This mechanism provides a collision-free environment in which the sensors can achieve energy independence, also referred as self-sustainability in this work, which is an important feature in BANs. Results show that the proposed protocol successfully manages the BANs in a collision-free and energy self-sustainable manner.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"253 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121165123","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":"The study of portable remote multi-life-parameter monitoring network","authors":"Qinwu Zhou, Ziwei Lin, Junhong Chen, Hongyan Fu","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026728","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of modern signal processing and computer network technology, it brings new challenges to remote health care structure. This paper discusses a prototype which realizes the functions of physiological signal collection and calculation, GPS global positioning, and data transmission through GPRS. The new type of portable multi-life-parameter physiologic monitoring terminal is based on embedded design method. It consists of physiological signal collection unit, GPS unit, data storage unit, data analysis unit, LCD (320*240) display unit and data communication unit. The physiological signal collection unit includes ECG, temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar part. The server system deals with physiological database, user information, interacting of physician-patient with audio and video, computer automatic diagnosis, wired or GPRS data transmission. We expect to solve the shortcoming of poor operability, large volume and high price of the traditional biological monitoring devices. Multi-life-parameter of the patients can be monitored remotely and wirelessly, with the advantages of good operability, strong scalability, small size, low cost, high reliability and real-time processing.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"117 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126011507","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}