New approaches in personalized e-health: A wearable human avatar-based monitor for ubiquitous care: An avatar-based smart care monitor

Author

Prado-Velasco, Manuel ; Marin, Rafael Ortiz ; Cidoncha, M. Gloria del Rio

Author_Institution

Graphic Eng. Dept., Univ. of Seville, Seville, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

7-10 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Falls are a serious and growing problem in the elderly and other population with chronic pathologies. However, none falling detector has been widely accepted by socio-healthcare providers yet. This work analyzes this issue and moves forward a new paradigm that hybridizes system biology with e-health domains. We present succinctly the technology and architecture of an avatar-based movement monitor based on this paradigm, together with an advancement of the first outcomes. ROC curves show the successful performance of a new algorithm compliant with it. Conclusions point to the effectivity of this technology.

Keywords

avatars; health care; intelligent sensors; personal computing; telemedicine; ubiquitous computing; ROC curves; chronic pathologies; elderly population; falling detector; personalized e-health; socio-healthcare providers; system biology; ubiquitous care; wearable human avatar-based monitor; Mathematical models; Movement Human Monitor; Virtual Physiological Human; Wearable Smart Sensor; e-health;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL), 2010 3rd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8131-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISABEL.2010.5702828

Filename

5702828