Authors:
Beatriz López
1
;
Sreynoch Soung
2
;
Natalai Mordvanyuk
1
;
Albert Pla
3
;
Pablo Gay
1
and
Abel López-Bermejo
4
Affiliations:
1
University of Girona, Spain
;
2
Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Cambodia
;
3
University of Oslo, Norway
;
4
Biomedical Research Institute of Girona, Spain
Keyword(s):
Decision Support Systems, Telemedicine, Nursing Informatics, Wearable Health Informatics, eHealth Applications.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Business Analytics
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Decision Support Systems, Remote Data Analysis
;
Devices
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Telemedicine
;
Wearable Sensors and Systems
Abstract:
The kids of European and occidental countries are threatened by obesity. They are potential persons to become
chronic patients. mHealth technology can help them to change their nutrition and physical activity habits. This
paper presents MATCHuP, a platform that involves several agents (kids, parents, healthcare providers) that
collaborate and compete by games in a social network in order to create a enjoyable environment to promote
a behavioural change towards a healthier life.