Wellness Support Using Mobile Handsets

Author

Kailas, Aravind ; Chong, Chia-Chin ; Watanabe, Fujio

Author_Institution

DOCOMO Commun. Labs. USA, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The concept of wellness mobile is a novel mobile service wherein wireless handheld devices such as cell phones are equipped with a wellness monitoring application, thereby enabling real-time self-wellness monitoring by the cell phone user. The wellness mobile will provide a safe and protective environment for an increasing cell phone user-population to help combat anti-wellness factors such as stress, fatigue, and illness. However, this emerging technology is still in its infancy, and developing quantifiable measures of wellness and designing intelligent monitoring systems is quite challenging. This paper reviews the recent trends and challenges facing this maturing revolutionary mobile application.

Keywords

cellular radio; health care; mobile radio; patient monitoring; telemedicine; antiwellness factor; cell phone; fatigue; healthcare monitoring; illness; intelligent monitoring system; mobile application; mobile handset; mobile service; next generation telemedicine; real-time self-wellness monitoring; stress; wellness mobile; wellness support; wireless handheld device; Biosensors; Medical services; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Stress; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2010-Fall), 2010 IEEE 72nd

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3573-9

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2010.5594112

Filename

5594112