DocumentCode
2301343
Title
Wearable Systems and Applications for Healthcare
Author
Meng, Yao ; Kim, Hee-Cheol
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Inje Univ., Gimhae, South Korea
fYear
2011
fDate
23-25 May 2011
Firstpage
325
Lastpage
330
Abstract
Wearable health systems, aimed to provide individualized health management and better quality of treatment and care, are emerging. It enables low-cost, user-friendly and continuous healthcare at any time and at any place. This paper provides a review of wearable technology for health related applications, including the analysis of user requirements, the introduction of current achievements in wearable health systems and its special branch -- intelligent biomedical clothing.
Keywords
biosensors; clothing; health care; patient treatment; ubiquitous computing; wearable computers; branch intelligent biomedical clothing; health management; health related application; treatment quality; user requirement; wearable health system; Biomedical monitoring; Electrocardiography; Sensor systems; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Wireless communication; biosensors; healthcare; intelligent clothing; ubiquitous computing; wearable computing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computers, Networks, Systems and Industrial Engineering (CNSI), 2011 First ACIS/JNU International Conference on
Conference_Location
Jeju Island
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0180-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CNSI.2011.78
Filename
5954335
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