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This paper presents the design and prototype of a wireless health monitoring system using mobile phone accessories. We focus on measuring real-time electrocardiogram (ECG) and heart rate monitoring using a smartphone case. With the increasing number of cardiac patients worldwide, this design can be used for early detection of heart diseases. Unlike most of the existing methods that use an optical...
The aim of this article is to execute systematic review of the literature in order to analyze and specific usability guidelines to develop gesture-based serious games for health. In this context, we considered 1155 studies from ACM, ScienceDirect, IEEE databases, and only four approaches fit the eligibility criteria. Results showed that is a lack of studies on the subject mentioned above, and there...
With the development of civilization into urban areas, agriculture has been forced to adapt to less space and limited resources. Developments in urban farming and robotics have produced the personal food computer, a device producing a controlled environment for hydroponic plant growth. As many pharmaceuticals originate from chemicals found in plants, investigation of chemicals relevant to human health...
This study aimed to compare two off-the-shelf sleep tracking devices, Fitbit (wearable fitness wristband) and Neuroon (wearable EEG eye mask), for measuring sleep under free living conditions. Taking the measurements of a clinical sleep monitor as the ground truth, we compared the measurements of Fitbit and Neuroon on total sleep time (TST), wake after sleep onset (WASO), the number of awakenings...
Evaluating motion quality has many applications in health promotion and exercise coaching. This study aimed to develop an approach for automatic and cost-efficient evaluation on motion quality using the Nintendo Wii Balance Board (WBB) and machine learning techniques. We conducted a pilot study with twelve participants to collect data of chest rotation and hip joint rotation. We used support vector...
This paper presents a serious game designed for children suffering from profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) also know as multihandicap, for their evaluation and cognitive training. The specificities of these children must be taken into account for the choice of both the game feedbacks and interfaces.
In February 2016, World Health Organization declared the Zika outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. With developing evidence it can cause birth defects, and the Summer Olympics coming up in the worst affected country, Brazil, the virus caught fire on social media. In this work, we use Zika as a case study in building a tool for tracking the misinformation around health concerns...
In order to prevent the body from any diseases and to protect human health, this study calculated the pathological index or meteorological pathology state (MPS) by using the weather factors such as air average temperature, average wind speed, average relative humidity and air pressure every day between 2009 and 2015 in Ulaanbaatar at the Information and Research Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology...
In the view of developing technology, changing lifestyles and busy schedules, people often tend to neglect their health. This has led to an outcry about health related issues among all age groups. The youngsters are the major victims of health problem as their uneven schedule makes it difficult to keep the track of nutritional value of their meal intake and maintaining daily health record manually...
Internet enabled medical devices offer patients with a level of convenience. In recent years, the healthcare industry has seen a surge in the number of cyber-attacks. Given the potentially fatal impact of a compromised medical device, this study aims to identify vulnerabilities of medical devices. Our approach uses Shodan to obtain a large collection of IP addresses that will be passed through Nessus...
Health, Safety, Environment and Ergonomie (HSEE) are important factors in any organization. An organization always have to assess its compliance in these factors to the required benchmarks and take proactive actions to improve them if required. In this paper, we propose a Fuzzy Cognitive Map-Bayesian network (BN) model in order to assist organizations in doing this process. Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM)...
In this work we present a greenhouse case study with a new energy model based on a Biomass energy source, once it is a more profitable and sustainable energy system, but demands special safety measures. Biomass has some dangerous aspects along the process from transport, to storage until its' use.
This paper aims to identify and analyze recommender systems developed for the health area, available in mobile applications. Therefore, literature was reviewed systematically from ACM, IEEE, Springer and Science Direct databases. 1006 studies were found, eight of which met the eligibility criteria. From the chosen studies, only one was not applied to the areas of nutrition and physical activity. The...
Patients in critical units require intensive care and constant monitoring, as their health condition is critical. Among the various care, the hydride control is fundamental, which is also known as control of gains and losses This care measures and records the total of fluids ingested and eliminated over a period of 24 hours. This article presents an application able to record and calculate the hydride...
This paper presents initial perspectives in the searchfor diagnosing the health of a Mobile Software Ecosystem(MSECO) company. The research intends to investigate a companys health through user reviews about mobile applications (Apps)and build and present indicators that can identify problems, failures and differences in the quality of the apps to guide thecompany in the search for "immunization"...
In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), we face the challenges of integrating new IoT systems with the existing systems, which are in services for large scale and economic implementations. In this paper, we explore an approach for integrate wired-wireless systems based on industrial standards, such as Zigbee and DALI for optimizing the energy use as well as timely communicating the vital signals to...
This brief paper reports on an early stage ongoing PhD project in the field of cyber-physical security in health care critical infrastructures. The research overall aims to develop a methodology that will increase the ability of secure recovery of health critical infrastructures. This ambitious or reckless attempt, as it is currently at an early stage, in this paper, tries to answer why cyber-physical...
This paper presents an introduction concerning landmines contamination issues, crisis, legacy, and action. We conduct an analysis of mine action, national and international programs. Before proposing the usage on early innovations, it is consequential to survey the foundation of the mine activity area since its start. We introduce the problems of landmines and how action is taken to face these problems...
Training deficits in ‘soft skills’ - personal or non-technical skills - have long been lamented by educators and employers despite longstanding evidence of their importance. Virtual environments, combined with online learning management and reporting platforms, offer potential for addressing this gap through affordable and scalable simulations. This paper aims to summarise virtual ‘soft skills’ work...
Testing the effectiveness of warning statements designed to encourage healthy lifestyle behaviours is largely done by showing the messages to study participants in the absence of ‘real world’ social and physical contexts. This approach does not factor in the impact of the medium of the message. A virtual, 360-degree environment (Messaging360) was developed that online participants can explore and...
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