LifeMinder: an evidence-based wearable healthcare assistant

  • Authors:
  • Takuji Suzuki;Miwako Doi

  • Affiliations:
  • Toshiba Corporation, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, Japan;Toshiba Corporation, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, Japan

  • Venue:
  • CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Recent needs for evidence-based healthcare systems are increasing. We have been developing a wearable healthcare assistant system LifeMinder that synchronously records physiological information and contextual information. LifeMinder is a long-term monitoring and easy retrieval system for an evidence-based healthcare. This paper discusses a prototype of LifeMinder. This prototype can sense pulse waves and user's actions / postures and capture contextual photos and continuous voices. These collected data are automatically synchronized, sent to a healthcare PC, stored in organized XML formats and can be easily retrieved on Web pages.