An ecosystem of platforms to support sensors for personal fitness

Author

Bordello, G. ; Brunette, Waylon ; Lester, Jonathan ; Powledge, Polly ; Rea, Adam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Washington Univ., Seattle, WA

fYear

2006

fDate

3-5 April 2006

Lastpage

178

Abstract

We have developed a collection of portable platforms to enable context-aware applications to help users with their personal fitness. Our approach has been to focus on established form-factors such as cellphones and wrist-watches for the user interfaces. A variety of sensors are used to infer aspects of the user´s context and proactively gather and display information that is likely to be useful at that time. In this paper, we highlight some of our platforms, the roles they can play, some of the capabilities we have already implemented, and highlight some of the applications we are currently developing

Keywords

biomedical equipment; electric sensing devices; interactive devices; patient monitoring; user interfaces; cellphones; context-aware applications; display information; personal fitness; portable platforms; sensor support; user interfaces; wrist watches; Application software; Biomedical monitoring; Cellular phones; Computer science; Displays; Ecosystems; Mobile handsets; User interfaces; Watches; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, 2006. BSN 2006. International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2547-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BSN.2006.8

Filename

1612924