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Digital Health and Mixed Realities: An Introduction

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The employment of novel health information has the potential to reduce the cost of healthcare and enhance health outcomes. As a result, constant health monitoring at both the individual and population level can be supported. Furthermore, healthy behaviors can be encouraged to prevent or even reduce health problems as well as chronic disease self-management can be supported. Technological developments have enabled an ever increasing level of seamless integration of virtual and physical elements into one view. Development in mixed reality, which combines the advantages of augmented reality and virtual reality while enabling users to interact with 3D data packets and the surrounding real-world environment, has proved advantageous in this field. It is possible to manipulate both the actual world and the virtual world at the same time with this hybrid approach to mixed reality

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  1. Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Gerasimos Vonitsanos & Foteini Grivokostopoulou

  2. Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

    Ioanna Moustaka & Andreas Kanavos

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  1. Department of Informatics, Ionian University Department of Informatics, Corfu, Greece

    Panayiotis Vlamos

  2. Dept of Physics and Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Ilias S. Kotsireas

  3. ResearchGate, ETH Zurich ResearchGate, Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

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Vonitsanos, G., Grivokostopoulou, F., Moustaka, I., Kanavos, A. (2023). Digital Health and Mixed Realities: An Introduction. In: Vlamos, P., Kotsireas, I.S., Tarnanas, I. (eds) Handbook of Computational Neurodegeneration. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75479-6_70-1

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