A Smartwatch-Based Framework for Real-Time and Online Assessment and Mobility Monitoring

Publication date: Available online 7 November 2018Source: Journal of Biomedical InformaticsAuthor(s): Matin Kheirkhahan, Sanjay Nair, Anis Davoudi, Parisa Rashidi, Amal A. Wanigatunga, Duane B. Corbett, Tonatiuh Mendoza, Todd M. Manini, Sanjay RankaAbstractSmartphone and smartwatch technology is changing the transmission and monitoring landscape for patients and research participants to communicate their healthcare information in real time. Flexible, bidirectional and real-time control of communication allows development of a rich set of healthcare applications that can provide interactivity with the participant and adapt dynamically to their changing environment. Additionally, smartwatches have a variety of sensors suitable for collecting physical activity and location data. The combination of all these features makes it possible to transmit the collected data to a remote server, and thus, to monitor physical activity and potentially social activity in real time. As smartwatches exhibit high user acceptability and increasing popularity, they are ideal devices for monitoring activities for extended periods of time to investigate the physical activity patterns in free-living condition and their relationship with the seemingly random occurring illnesses, which have remained a challenge in the current literature. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop a smartwatch-based framework for real-time and online assessment and mobility monitoring (ROAMM). The proposed ROAMM...
Source: Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research