TY - GEN
T1 - Personalized Medicine in the Wearable Era
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Human-Centered Sensing, Networking, and Systems, HumanSys 2017
AU - Alshurafa, Nabil
AU - Hester, Josiah
PY - 2017/11/5
Y1 - 2017/11/5
N2 - Preventive medicine is heading towards a more personalized future; adjusting care based on the individual needs of the patient. This future is enabled by wearable devices: not just smartwatches, but devices embedded in clothing, necklaces, and other gadgets that will one day invisibly, continuously, and effortlessly monitor and understand the health and wellbeing of a patient in perpetuity. However, this future is not yet translating from engineering to medicine, because of a tendency to treat patients as a monolithic group, and the lack of willpower to study users in the wild. These failures cause us to miss interesting behaviors and features of patients who have unique personalities, habits, medical histories, and medical needs, potentially hurting their quality of care. We believe that the technology is available to make personalized, specialized health platforms keyed to a single person’s habits, needs, and identity that is both easy to wear and fully functional. In this vision paper, we discuss a new approach to preventive, personal medicine with wearables, and outline confounding factors and applications in line with our vision.
AB - Preventive medicine is heading towards a more personalized future; adjusting care based on the individual needs of the patient. This future is enabled by wearable devices: not just smartwatches, but devices embedded in clothing, necklaces, and other gadgets that will one day invisibly, continuously, and effortlessly monitor and understand the health and wellbeing of a patient in perpetuity. However, this future is not yet translating from engineering to medicine, because of a tendency to treat patients as a monolithic group, and the lack of willpower to study users in the wild. These failures cause us to miss interesting behaviors and features of patients who have unique personalities, habits, medical histories, and medical needs, potentially hurting their quality of care. We believe that the technology is available to make personalized, specialized health platforms keyed to a single person’s habits, needs, and identity that is both easy to wear and fully functional. In this vision paper, we discuss a new approach to preventive, personal medicine with wearables, and outline confounding factors and applications in line with our vision.
KW - Energy
KW - Mobile Health
KW - Personalization
KW - Sensing
KW - Wearable
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U2 - 10.1145/3144730.3144738
DO - 10.1145/3144730.3144738
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85041677809
T3 - HumanSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Human-Centered Sensing, Networking, and Systems, Part of SenSys 2017
SP - 37
EP - 42
BT - HumanSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Human-Centered Sensing, Networking, and Systems, Part of SenSys 2017
A2 - Eskicioglu, Rasit
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 5 November 2017
ER -
