Authors:
Federico Guede Fernández
1
;
Marc Pous Solà
1
;
Miguel Ángel García González
1
;
Lluís Capdevila Ortís
2
;
Juan Ramos Castro
1
and
Mireya Fernández Chimeno
1
Affiliations:
1
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
;
2
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Keyword(s):
Android, Real-time, Biomedical Monitoring, Biosensor.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Instrumentation
;
Biomedical Instruments and Devices
;
Biomedical Sensors
;
Devices
;
Health Monitoring Devices
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Physiological Computing Systems
Abstract:
As a consequence of increasing life expectancy, the promotion of lifestyles that allow aging wellbeing guarantees has acquired great importance in the developed countries. However, the adherence to healthy behaviors in young and adult people remains as a big problem in the community health field. The development of markers of adherence to healthy lifestyles and the evaluation its effectiveness is a goal of many research groups. This paper presents a system for analyzing physiological, psychological and behavioural user’s habits using a smartphone and externals biodevices. We use an Android smartphone with an internal tri-axial accelerometer and GPS to monitor physical activity. The smartphone is connected via Bluetooth to a respiratory sensor for breath monitoring. In addition, Android application contains psychological questionnaires to analyze user’s mood state and at the same, social interaction is analyzed tracking phone usage and user’s social network. Finally, the collected inf
ormation is sent to a remote server for a long-term processing.
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