HealthwearATAAL: Wearable Terminal and Devices enable Personal Healthcare Abstract

The demographic development changes Germany as well as China. The amount of elderly increased faster than younger populations. Insufficient attention and investment make the quality of elderly home life deteriorated. At the meantime, new technologies aimed at home life haven't yet been widely used. It may because that elderly people are reluctant to use them, or because that these technologies lack characters about practicable, individualized, or user friendly form, structure, interface and special support software. So that the research works about Ambient Assist Living (AAL) are getting more and more attentions.

After the 2010 Sino-German Symposium on Wearable Computing, the cooperation between TZI of University Bremen and MCC of UESTC (University of Electronics and Science Technology of China) decide to focus on the HealthWear@AAL, it is an intelligent wearable solution for in-home health monitoring and diagnosing.

In this report, the current work progress of China side is introduced. Firstly, the principle, design and develop of some body sensors modules (like accelerometer) are introduced. They are used to daily detect the vita sign and activity. Then, wrist terminals that designed and developed for the data fusion and health application support are reported. Function set of this wrist terminal is defined. Lastly, some open support software issues (Information Types, Application Model and User Interface) are discussed.

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