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Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. 6.th International Conference, MobiHealth 2016 Milan, Italy, November 14–16, 2016 Proceedings.
No full textA Didactic Experience in Designing Smart Systems for mHealth
No full textThe aim of this paper is to present a didactic experience in designing mobile health systems during a Bachelor Degree class in Industrial Design. The scope is to prove the role of Design in the innovation process and how its approach and methodologies connect research, innovation, and technology. As case studies, two projects are presented. In the first one, the students have developed a training suite for figure skating; the second one is related to the development of a system that detects and counts instruments and sterile dressings in the operating suites
A New Personalized Health System: The SMARTA Project
No full textThe growing number of elderly people with health issues is the consequence of the increase in life expectancy. Tele-homecare applications have already reported promising results on reducing health care costs and improving quality of life. In this study, we present the SMARTA platform ( www.smarta-project.it): a fully integrated system capable to monitor its user’s health condition. The latest telemedicine and wearable technologies have been used to make cooperating users and caregivers. The system integrates wearable (ECG and accelerometry), non-wearable (temperature, weight, blood pressure etc.) and environmental (light, refrigerator etc.) sensors
DIABESITY: A Study for mHealth Integrated Solutions
No full textDIABESITY: A Study for mHealth Integrated Solutions
Use of wearable inertial sensor in the assessment of Timed-Up-and-Go Test: Influence of device placement on temporal variable estimation
No full textThe “Timed Up and Go” (TUG) test is widely used in various disorders to evaluate subject’s mobility, usually evaluating only time execution. TUG test specificity could be improved by using instrumented assessment based on inertial sensors. Position of the sensor is critical. This study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of an inertial sensor placed in three different positions to correctly segment the different phases in the TUG test. Finding demonstrated good reliability of the proposed methodology compared to the gold standard motion analysis approach based on surface markers and an optoelectronic system. Placing the sensor just beneath the lumbar-sacral joint reported the lower values of deviation with respect to the gold standard. Optimized position can extend the proposed methodology from the clinical context towards ubiquitous solutions in an ecological approach
