An Activity Monitoring Application for Windows Mobile Devices

  • Authors:

  • Hayat Al Mushcab;Kevin Curran;Jonathan Doherty

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Ulster, Northern Ireland;University of Ulster, Northern Ireland;University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2010

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Obesity is rising at an alarming rate. A great challenge facing the health community is introducing population-wide approaches to weight management as existing health and medical provisions do not have the capacity to cope. Technology is fast becoming an important tool to combat this trend. The use of activity monitors is becoming more common in health care as a device to measure everyday activity levels of patients as activity is often linked to weight. This paper outlines a research project where Bluetooth technology can be used to connect a commercial wrist-worn activity monitor with a Windows Mobile device to allow the user to upload the activity data to a remote server.