Personalized Implicit Health Monitors

Chen, Nicholas; Lee, Yun Young; Rabb, Maurice

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Title

Personalized Implicit Health Monitors

Author(s)

• Chen, Nicholas
• Lee, Yun Young
• Rabb, Maurice

Contributor(s)

Schatz, Bruce

Issue Date

2010

Keyword(s)

• Health
• Healthcare
• Computer-related Health Issues
• Human Factors

Abstract

A person’s psychological well-being can be deduced by observing her past, current and future behaviors. However, little effort has been made to qualify, quantify and correlate a person’s behavior to her psychological well-being using non-intrusive health monitors. This report presents our attempts at using non-intrusive health monitors to observe a person’s diet, exercise and sleep patterns to determine possible correlations with her stress levels – a common measure of psychological well-being. Our preliminary study of monitoring three subjects daily for a period of seven continuous weeks shows that such non-intrusive monitoring yields interesting insights in correlating a person’s stress levels. Our study also reveals important design decisions that should be considered in order to reliably and effectively deploy long-term personalized implicit health monitoring systems involving ordinary people in the real world.

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text

Language

en

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