Design and evaluation of a person-centric heart monitoring system over fog computing infrastructure [PDF]
, 2017 Heart disease and stroke are becoming the leading cause of death worldwide. Electrocardiography monitoring devices (ECG) are the only tool that helps physicians diagnose cardiac abnormalities.
Akrivopoulos, Orestis +3 more
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Wearable Tendon Kinetics [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 This study introduces a noninvasive wearable system for investigating tendon loading patterns during outdoor locomotion on variable terrain. The system leverages shear wave tensiometry, which is a new approach for assessing tendon load by tracking wave speed within the tissue.
Sara E. Harper +4 more
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Software for Wearable Devices: Challenges and Opportunities
, 2015 Wearable devices are a new form of mobile computer system that provides exclusive and user-personalized services. Wearable devices bring new issues and challenges to computer science and technology.
Chen, Xin +5 more
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Bioengineered Textiles and Nonwovens – the convergence of bio-miniaturisation and electroactive conductive polymers for assistive healthcare, portable power and design-led wearable technology [PDF]
, 2009 Today, there is an opportunity to bring together creative design activities to exploit the responsive and adaptive ‘smart’ materials that are a result of rapid development in electro, photo active polymers or OFEDs (organic thin film electronic devices),
Oliver, Raymond +2 more
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Recognition of crowd behavior from mobile sensors with pattern analysis and graph clustering methods
Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2011 Mobile on-body sensing has distinct advantages for the analysis and understanding of crowd dynamics: sensing is not geographically restricted to a specific instrumented area, mobile phones offer on-body sensing and they are already deployed on a large ...
Daniel Roggen +3 more
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Opal Actigraphy (Activity and Sleep) Measures Compared to ActiGraph: A Validation Study
Sensors, 2023 Physical activity and sleep monitoring in daily life provide vital information to track health status and physical fitness. The aim of this study was to establish concurrent validity for the new Opal Actigraphy solution in relation to the widely used ...
Vrutangkumar V. Shah +10 more
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Nature Communications, 2019 Covalent organic frameworks are potential catalysts for nitrogen reduction, but limited nitrogen transport restricts the utilization ratio of active sites.
Sisi Liu +5 more
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Printable magnesium ion quasi-solid-state asymmetric supercapacitors for flexible solar-charging integrated units. [PDF]
, 2019 Wearable and portable self-powered units have stimulated considerable attention in both the scientific and technological realms. However, their innovative development is still limited by inefficient bulky connections between functional modules ...
Kaner, Richard B +8 more
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Wearable Cardioverter-Defibrillators [PDF]
Circulation, 2013 Since its introduction >3 decades ago, the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) has been used extensively to enhance the survival of patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death resulting from life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VTs; ie, sustained VT and ventricular fibrillation [VF]).1,2 Nevertheless, the invasive nature of the ...
Arnon, Adler, Amir, Halkin, Sami, Viskin
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A low-power opportunistic communication protocol for wearable applications [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 IEEE.Recent trends in wearable applications demand flexible architectures being able to monitor people while they move in free-living environments. Current solutions use either store-download-offline processing or simple communication schemes with
Chen, S, Gaglione, A, Lo, B, Yang, GZ
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