Because of user movements and activities, heartbeats recorded from wearable devices typically feature a large degree of variability in their morphology. Learning problems, which in ECG monitoring often involve learning a user-specific model to describe the heartbeat morphology, become more challenging. Our study, conducted on ECG tracings acquired from the Pulse Sensor – a wearable device from ...

Recently, many wearable devices have been developed as IoT technology grows. Among them, smart watch is the friendliest wearable device in daily lives. Many companies are trying to improve the device or system to provide personal service as user’s behavior. This paper proposes an user behavior classification system using smart watch and machine learning algorithm to provide personal service wit...

Satellite-based evapotranspiration and crop coefficient for irrigated sorghum in the Gezira scheme, Sudan M. A. Bashir, T. Hata, A. W. Abdelhadi, H. Tanakamaru, and A. Tada Dept. of Food Systems and Field Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657–8501, Japan Agricultural Research Corporation, PO Box 126, Wad Medani, Sudan Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe U...

PURPOSE To investigate the presence of subgroups in chronic whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) based on pain thresholds for pressure (PPT), cold (CPT), and heat (HPT) and to compare these subgroups with respect to symptomatology, disability, and health aspects. METHODS Two groups of female subjects - patients with chronic WAD (n = 28) and healthy controls (CON; n = 29) - were investigated. Q...

BACKGROUND Health-related Quality of Life (HrQoL) is probably the most important outcome parameter for the evaluation and management of chronic diseases. As this parameter is subjective and prone to bias, there is an urgent need to identify objective surrogate markers. Gait velocity has been shown to be associated with HrQoL in numerous chronic diseases, such as Parkinson's disease (PD). With t...

Wearablesmayhavenotablepotentialasanassistivetechnologyforpersonswithvariousdifficulties. Althoughquitepopular,smartwatches’nichesarestillrevealing.Oneofthemisdefinitelyinthedomain ofassistivetechnologyduetotheircommunicationandlocationfeatures.Positioningfeaturesenable parentsorcaregiverstoknowthewhereaboutsofchildorpersonswithdisabilities...

We are developing a wearable device that attempts to alleviate some everyday memory problems. The “memory prosthesis” records audio and contextual information from conversations and provides a suite of retrieval tools (on both the wearable and a personal computer) to help users access forgotten memories in a timely fashion. This paper describes the wearable device, the personal-computer-based r...

This report is a compendium of papers on aspects of whiplash associated disorders (WAD). The aim of the report is to provide an overview of WAD from different perspectives: epidemiological, engineering, biomechanical, biopsychosocial, and treatment. Two recent studies on WAD in South Australia are also reported. The findings from studies published up until August 2005 are included in this repor...