User Interaction Design and Development of a Heart Failure Management System based on Wearable and Information Technologies

Author

Villalba, E. ; Arredondo, MT ; Moreno, A. ; Salvi, D. ; Guillen, S.

Author_Institution

Life Supporting Technol., Tech. Univ. of Madrid

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

400

Lastpage

403

Abstract

In the Western World, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading source of death. Only in Europe, they cause 45% of all deaths. Besides heart failure, the paradigm of CVD, affects mainly people older than 65. Facing this reality, the European Union has funded MyHeart Project, whose mission is empowering citizens to fight CVD by means of a preventive lifestyle and an early diagnosis. This paper presents the design and development of the user interaction for a heart failure management system. This system consists on wearable and mobile technologies which monitors the vital body signals in a daily basis, providing a continuous assessment of this chronic disease

Keywords

biomedical equipment; cardiovascular system; diseases; geriatrics; medical computing; user interfaces; European Union; MyHeart Project; cardiovascular diseases; continuous chronic disease assessment; heart failure management system; information technologies; mobile technologies; user interaction design; vital body signal monitoring; wearable technologies; Biomedical monitoring; Cardiac disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Clothing; Feedback; Hafnium; Heart; Information technology; Research and development management; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259466

Filename

4461771