{"title":"Smart Mirror for Elderly Emotion Monitoring","authors":"Piyarat Silapasuphakornwong, K. Uehira","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391829","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce a concept for an IoT semi-electronic display device which can detect the users emotions to identify initial signs of depression in the elderly. Such a screening process is expected to appear in future smart healthcare systems. This device functions as a smart mirror which displays daily information such as the weather, events, headline news, currency rates, stocks, and reminders. Elderly users can view information on their mental health while dressing themselves in front of the mirror. The information on their daily emotions will be collected to monitor their health long-term as a nurse or caretaker in their house would do. Moreover, to observe the elderly users emotions, we incorporate additional systems such as a chat bot, facial recognition, voice/speech recognition, and posture recognition. The device also serves as a communication tool that facilitates telemedicine, helping the elderly users at home feel more connected with their doctors. This helps doctors diagnose, follow up, and treat their patients long-term","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127440540","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 Biofeedback Device-Using Muscle Fatigue Scale","authors":"T. Ikehara, K. Kojima","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391781","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the age of the population has increased, and the aging of the population has increased. In addition, the cost of disease prevention and personal medical expenses are increasing in Japan. For this reason, the elderly need physical strength and walking ability to live as much as possible. In elderly people, walking disorders become inadequate because movement disorders and muscular strength decrease with age, and walking in daily life becomes difficult. Therefore, to promote muscle weakness in the elderly, it was recommended that walking be promoted and light exercise be performed. In the elderly, EMG analysis of muscle fatigue is being performed. We use MPF to check fatigue, but there is no device that analyzes the condition in real time and provides feedback on the condition of fatigue. This research aimed at “Development of Biofeedback Device Using Muscle Fatigue Scale”","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125502260","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":"Indoor Localization Using Leaky Coaxial Cable over a Multipath-rich Linear Cell Environment","authors":"Junjie Zhu, Kenta Nagayama, Yafei Hou, S. Denno","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391899","url":null,"abstract":"One leaky coaxial cable (LCX), which can be used as two antennas as recent research progress, is feasible to detect the location of user in a simple way. Localization using the proposed LCX has been researched for several years and most results considered the localization in an anechoic chamber with only line-of-sight (LOS) propagation component. In this paper, we evaluate the accuracy performance of indoor localization for the proposed LCX system over a multipath-rich environment using a geometrical-based single-bounce (GBSB) model.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115201021","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":"Hearing support system for the hearing impaired","authors":"M. Ishihara, Michiko Tsuda","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391875","url":null,"abstract":"General hearing aids are used to improve the hearing of sounds after hearing loss and amplify sounds that are difficult to hear. However, various problems are incurred, such as when the listener changes the setting of the hearing aid depending on the distance from the speaker, making it difficult to hear even if a change is made. To solve this problem, a voice transmission and distribution device using FM waves has been developed in Switzerland. However, this method has not been widely used in regular classes owing to its usability, the application of radio waves, and problems with price and maintenance. In addition, people who cannot recognise the specific frequency of the voice are unable to use it. To solve this problem, in this study, a hearing aid system that can be easily used by anyone was develop by applying a LAN and tablets that are actively introduced at educational sites to reduce the costs.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"242 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114414185","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":"Image Enhancement and Adjustment Based on Histogram Equalization of Profile Compression Algorithm","authors":"Chun-Hsiang Chang, Wei-Zhe Yan, Min-Hua Lu, Ting-Wei Chen, Yi-Cheng Liu, Yu-Cheng Fan","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391959","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid development of science and technology, the self-driving car industry is booming, increasing the use of LiDAR, digital cameras and other instruments. This paper proposes to use histogram equalization method combined with neural network to specifically enhance image in the night environment. Using histogram equalization method to achieve image enhancement is quite simple and fast, while neural network has the advantage of high accuracy.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117040203","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":"Studying the Effect of Hand Movement Visual Delay on the Sense of Agency","authors":"Hani M. Bu-Omer, Fumitoshi Osaki, A. Gofuku","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391796","url":null,"abstract":"Several virtual reality-based mirror visual feedback (VR-MVF) therapy systems have shown a positive effectiveness to reduce the pain severity in patients with chronic pain conditions. It is suggested that the effect of such systems is related to the restoration of the sense of agency (SoA) levels in those patients. In this study, we perform an EEG-based experiment to confirm the neural correlates of the SoA by introducing different visual delay levels to hand movement visual feedback. Seven volunteers have currently participated in this experiment. The participants perform hand movement and monitor their movement under different visual delays while recording EEG data. The participants are also asked to quantitatively rate their SoA whether the displayed movement is derived by the participant himself using a numeric scale. The results of the behavioral analysis have shown that the SoA is altered as the amount of delay applied to the visual feedback of the self-movement is increased. These results suggest that distraction in visual feedback can negatively affect the SoA.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129308691","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}
Hikaru Yabe, S. Ishikawa, Shunsuke Tomioka, Shouya Tsukahara, Ryotaro Sakauchi, M. Tanaka
{"title":"Bus Location System with LoRa to Cover the Entire Nonoichi City","authors":"Hikaru Yabe, S. Ishikawa, Shunsuke Tomioka, Shouya Tsukahara, Ryotaro Sakauchi, M. Tanaka","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391821","url":null,"abstract":"We have been developing a bus location system using LoRa for the community buses in Nonoichi city, Japan. The conventional system has covered only one route and have had reliability problems that communication is done incorrectly in rare cases, sometimes the bus position display is incorrect. Therefore, we decided to cover the entire city of Nonoichi with LoRa network and support all routes running in the city. We also considered adopting multi-channel communication and multiple gateways to improve the reliability of the system. In this article, we describe a multi-channel and multiple gateways scheme to improve reliability.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"1999 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131370159","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}
Samuel Budd, Arno Blaas, A. Hoarfrost, K. Khezeli, Krittika D’Silva, Frank Soboczenski, Graham Mackintosh, N. Chia, John Kalantari
{"title":"Prototyping CRISP: A Causal Relation and Inference Search Platform applied to Colorectal Cancer Data","authors":"Samuel Budd, Arno Blaas, A. Hoarfrost, K. Khezeli, Krittika D’Silva, Frank Soboczenski, Graham Mackintosh, N. Chia, John Kalantari","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391819","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce CRISP, a Causal Research and Inference Search Platform. It is designed to assist biological and medical research by applying a variety of causal discovery methods to heterogeneous and high-dimensional observational data. CRISP aims to identify a small set of input variables which are most likely to have a causal effect on a target variable. The output of CRISP, thus, highlights the most promising candidates for further targeted research. We illustrate the utility of CRISP with a case study in oncology, using a multi-omic colorectal cancer data set to identify causal drivers differentiating two subtypes of colorectal cancer.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131969098","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 an Evaluation Procedure for Assist Wear Devices used in Daily Activities","authors":"H. Ohshima, Takumi Shimizu, S. Shimada","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391841","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the numerous applications of assist wear devices, there are no existing procedures to evaluate their performance. We propose a unique evaluation method for assist wear devices that are used in daily activities by using electromyography. The technique demonstrates the effectiveness of the device by calculating the reduced load on the muscles and the assist performance of the device. The proposed evaluation method also allows users to determine the dimensions of the assist wear device suited to their bodies.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132885639","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":"Using Depth Map as Interface to Predict Collision Risks in Remote Participation Assist System","authors":"Takumi Kawamura","doi":"10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LifeTech52111.2021.9391801","url":null,"abstract":"To support the participation in social activities of people who have difficulty going out, it is important to implement a remote participation system in society. In this system, the user experience (UX) itself is an essential purpose. In this study, a visual collision risk alert was developed to improve UX. This alert satisfies the following four required functions: I) quantitative and II) intuitive representation of high-risk obstacles, III) multiple representations in the same image for prediction, and IV) visibility of the image. It is expected that this alert will improve the overall satisfaction of the remote participation experience.","PeriodicalId":274908,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133072784","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}