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The population ageing problem and the need for finding feasible solutions and tools to support elderly people in self-managing their well-being and maintaining their independence and Quality of Life (QoL) have drawn the attention of the research community of multiple disciplines. In particular, mHealth taking advantage of advances in wearables that can track vital signs and smartphone technologies, has shown promising results in this respect in the last decade. Along with the advances in this field, however, a lot of challenges arose, such as safeguarding the elderly persons’ privacy and data rights. The proposed system, MyHealthWatcher, is a personalized mHealth system for elderly people which supports wearable sensors and integration with a monitoring platform used by health professionals and caregivers. For the implementation of the system particular emphasis was given to adhering to principles of ethical design, thus allowing users to be in control of their data.
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The work presented in this paper has been carried out in the context of the national project “Monitoring vital health related information for the elderly – MyHealthWatcher” (grant number MIS 5031685), co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund and national funding from the Greek Ministry of Development and Investments through the Operational Programme “Competitiveness, entrepreneurship, Innovation”, NSRF 2014–2020.
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Foukarakis, M. et al. (2022). An Integrated Approach to Support Health Monitoring of Older Adults. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S., Salvendy, G. (eds) HCI International 2022 – Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1654. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19679-9_54
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