A wearable kids' health monitoring system on smartphone

Authors:
Shahram Jalaliniya;Thomas Pederson
Affiliations:
IT University of Copenhagen, København S, Denmark;IT University of Copenhagen, København S, Denmark
Venue:
Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Nowadays, several commercial and academic studies are available to measure and monitor health level of people. However, most of these applications have encountered many challenges to be used pervasively. In this paper, we have examined some of the practical challenges in developing and using health-monitoring systems through designing, developing and evaluating a simple wearable mobile system for kids. The project started with a survey among parents to understand user requirements, also we interviewed a doctor as a domain expert, and finally a wearable prototype of the system was developed and evaluated. Our finding shows that while putting the sensors on the most appropriate places of the body increases quality of physiological measurements, it would lead to decrease acceptability of these devices for children, e.x. children do not accept to put a temperature sensor in their ear for a long time. In this project, we have built an acceptable device for kids, but at the same time we have used data analysis methods such as removing outliers, smoothing data and using domain experts' knowledge to improve reliability of the system results.