Welcome to the First ACM workshop on mobile systems, applications, and services for healthcare, co-held with ACM SenSys 2011 in Seattle, Washington, USA. This is the first workshop at SenSys which explores the intersection of mobile systems, sensor systems, and medical informatics. This workshop explores, encourages, and accelerates advances in wearable sensing, mobile phone sensing, algorithms, applications, and services that aim to deliver healthcare in the unconstrained mobile environment of individuals.
The first year's program includes keynotes from the medical and technological community, Charlene Quinn and Aydogan Ozcan, along with 6 research papers and 7 demos. We will also have a panel on setting the research agenda for mHealth in 2020, participants include Santosh Kumar (moderator), George Demiris, David McDonald, Babak Parviz, and Mani Srivastava. We are pleased by the program of the workshop with the medical and technological communities participating in exploring the frontiers of mobile technology in healthcare. The workshop will also be presenting the best paper and best demo awards. We thank the Technical Program committee chaired by Santosh Kumar and Kenneth Watkin for putting together a wonderful program.
We received 17 high-quality submissions to mHealthSys 2011 workshop. Each paper was reviewed by at least three members of the technical program committee; most papers received 4-5 reviews. A TPC meeting was held to discuss the papers and their reviews to make a final decision. Only 6 out of the 17 submitted papers (i.e., 35%) were accepted to the final program.
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mobileSpiro: accurate mobile spirometry for self-management of asthma
Effective management of asthma and other respiratory diseases requires constant monitoring and frequent data collection using a spirometer and longitudinal analysis. However, even after three decades of clinical use, there are very few personalized ...
Planipes: mobile foot pressure analysis
Analyzing foot pressure is helpful in clinical diagnosis. Possible applications include the diagnosis of back injuries, prevention of diabetic foot ulceration, and adaptation of insoles for orthopedic applications. Consequently, several approaches to ...
Analysis of gait in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus
Assessment of gait and posture as symptoms has been the primary concern in the diagnosis and treatment of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), a disease in which there is excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain. Diagnosis of NPH ...
StrokeTrack: wireless inertial motion tracking of human arms for stroke telerehabilitation
Stroke is a leading cause of disability in the United States and yet little technology is currently available for individuals with stroke to practice rehabilitation therapy progress in their homes. This paper presents StrokeTrack, an efficient, wearable ...
Power-aware action recognition with optimal sensor selection: an AdaBoost driven distributed template matching approach
In this paper, we present a distributed action recognition framework that minimizes power consumption of the system subject to a lower bound on the classification accuracy. The system utilizes computationally simple template matching blocks that perform ...
PowerSense: power aware dengue diagnosis on mobile phones
Dengue is a flu-like viral disease found mostly in the tropical regions, and is spread by infected mosquitoes. Dengue hemorrhagic fever is a severe and often fatal manifestation if left untreated. In 2009, India reported 899 cases of dengue fever. ...
Real-time joint angle measurement using the Shimmer wireless sensor platform
This demonstration presents an application for real-time joint angle measurement using the Shimmer wireless sensor platform. The application allows for the assessment and analysis of joint kinematics, which can be of benefit to medical professionals in ...
Chronic Care Continuum (C3): mobile-ready life skills training for adolescents with chronic diseases
- Todd H. Stokes,
- Erika S. Poole,
- Christopher P. Bonafide,
- Alain B. Labrique,
- James H. Willig,
- Chihwen Cheng,
- May D. Wang
Consensus guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, and American College of Physicians recommend that physicians begin discussing the process of transitioning from pediatric to adult care with patients ...
HygeiaTel: an intelligent telemedicine system with cognitive support
The increasing health care cost and the scarcity of healthcare workers warrant development of a new complementary healthcare system. The web that has brought scalability and cost reduction in other fields can do the same in healthcare. A web based ...
A virtual sleep laboratory
A virtual sleep laboratory capable of providing low cost and personalized sleep apnea monitoring using a smartphone has been demonstrated. This system can be used both at home and clinical care settings. This fully automated system derives sleep apnea ...
Non-invasive and long-term core temperature measurement
Long term, non-invasive monitoring of core temperature would be valuable for both the understanding of human thermoregulation responses to different drugs and conditions as well as the potential to develop tools for early detection of disease. Although ...
Activity-aware heart sensing in mobile healthcare
This work designs, implements, and evaluates an activity-aware heart sensing framework based on mobile devices, called AA-Heart, which consists of two major components: the front-end mobile platform collecting user's heart and context data, and the back-...
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