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Multiple sensor fusion approach to map environmental noise impact on health

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Urban spaces have a great influence on how people feel and behave. There is a number of factors that affect our health in outdoor space. In this paper, we objectively propose a new way to measure environmental noise impact on health and reactions in places by monitoring their physiological signals in relation to their health and wellbeing. By integrating wearable biosensors with smartphones, we will be able to get multi-devices, geo-annotated and synchronous measurements from users in crowd sourcing fashion. The data then aggregated and analyzed to visualize the body responses data by creating layers over a geographical map. Consequently, we can establish a better understanding of the interdependency between health and environmental surroundings.

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UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct
September 2016
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ISBN:9781450344623
DOI:10.1145/2968219
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  1. environmental monitoring
  2. environmental noise
  3. mobile sensing
  4. physiological monitoring
  5. urban space

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  • (2019)Wearable Device for Monitoring Respiratory Phases Based on Breathing Sound and Chest MovementAdvanced Biomedical Engineering10.14326/abe.8.858(85-91)Online publication date: 2019
  • (2018)WakeDroid: A Remote Boot Trigger for Android Devices as IoT Nodes2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)10.1109/ICCW.2018.8403560(1-6)Online publication date: May-2018

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