Title :
ViM: Vital Signs in Music Creatively Facilitating Effective Long-Term Wellbeing Self-Management
Author :
Yunqiu Li ; Thimbleby, Harold
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Swansea Univ., Swansea, UK
Abstract :
The effectiveness of telehealth and mHealth technologies in long-term well being management relies on their acceptability with users. Factors such as low self-efficacy and poor peer support are frequently noted barriers that inhibit users from taking an active part in self-management. Here we report a work-in-progress research project, Vital signs in Music (ViM), using automatically-generated short music pieces from vital sign readings as an additional personalised data format to encourage sharing and to help establish peer support amongst users.
Keywords :
health care; mobile computing; music; telemedicine; ViM; automatically-generated short music pieces; long-term wellbeing self-management; m-health technologies; personalised data format; telehealth effectiveness; vital sign readings; vital signs in music; work-in-progress research project; Bioinformatics; Computer science; Diseases; Electronic mail; Monitoring; Music;
Conference_Titel :
Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
DOI :
10.1109/ICHI.2013.68