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Smart Health

Open Problems and Future Challenges

  • Features context aware computing along with advanced interaction paradigms
  • Deals with hot topics in smart health
  • Combines methodologies and approaches from HCI and KDD
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8700)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
  2. From Smart Health to Smart Hospitals

    • Andreas Holzinger, Carsten Röcker, Martina Ziefle
    Pages 1-20
  3. Medicine and Health Care as a Data Problem: Will Computers Become Better Medical Doctors?

    • Michael Duerr-Specht, Randy Goebel, Andreas Holzinger
    Pages 21-39
  4. Spatial Health Systems

    • Björn Gottfried, Hamid Aghajan, Kevin Bing-Yung Wong, Juan Carlos Augusto, Hans Werner Guesgen, Thomas Kirste et al.
    Pages 41-69
  5. Towards Pervasive Mobility Assessments in Clinical and Domestic Environments

    • Melvin Isken, Thomas Frenken, Melina Frenken, Andreas Hein
    Pages 71-98
  6. Personalized Physical Activity Monitoring Using Wearable Sensors

    • Gabriele Bleser, Daniel Steffen, Attila Reiss, Markus Weber, Gustaf Hendeby, Laetitia Fradet
    Pages 99-124
  7. Energy Harvesting on Human Bodies

    • Gregor Rebel, Francisco Estevez, Peter Gloesekoetter, Jose M. Castillo-Secilla
    Pages 125-159
  8. On Distant Speech Recognition for Home Automation

    • Michel Vacher, Benjamin Lecouteux, François Portet
    Pages 161-188
  9. A User-Centered Design Approach to Physical Motion Coaching Systems for Pervasive Health

    • Norimichi Ukita, Daniel Kaulen, Carsten Röcker
    Pages 189-208
  10. Linking Biomedical Data to the Cloud

    • Stefan Zwicklbauer, Christin Seifert, Michael Granitzer
    Pages 209-235
  11. Towards Personalization of Diabetes Therapy Using Computerized Decision Support and Machine Learning: Some Open Problems and Challenges

    • Klaus Donsa, Stephan Spat, Peter Beck, Thomas R. Pieber, Andreas Holzinger
    Pages 237-260
  12. State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges in the Integration of Biobank Catalogues

    • Heimo Müller, Robert Reihs, Kurt Zatloukal, Fleur Jeanquartier, Roxana Merino-Martinez, David van Enckevort et al.
    Pages 261-273
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 275-275

About this book

Prolonged life expectancy along with the increasing complexity of medicine and health services raises health costs worldwide dramatically. Whilst the smart health concept has much potential to support the concept of the emerging P4-medicine (preventive, participatory, predictive, and personalized), such high-tech medicine produces large amounts of high-dimensional, weakly-structured data sets and massive amounts of unstructured information. All these technological approaches along with “big data” are turning the medical sciences into a data-intensive science. To keep pace with the growing amounts of complex data, smart hospital approaches are a commandment of the future, necessitating context aware computing along with advanced interaction paradigms in new physical-digital ecosystems.

The very successful synergistic combination of methodologies and approaches from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) offers ideal conditions for the vision to support human intelligence with machine learning.

The papers selected for this volume focus on hot topics in smart health; they discuss open problems and future challenges in order to provide a research agenda to stimulate further research and progress.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Research Unit HCI-KDD, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Andreas Holzinger

  • Industrial HCI Research Lab, Fraunhofer Institute, Lemgo, Germany

    Carsten Röcker

  • Human-Computer Interaction Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Martina Ziefle

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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