CSR: Large: Collaborative research: Computational Jewelry for Mobile Health

移动医疗（mHealth）技术的出现为提高生活质量、改善个人和公众健康、降低医疗成本带来了巨大的机遇。尽管移动健康设备和应用程序正在激增，但在提供必要的可用性、可管理性、互操作性、可用性、安全性和隐私性方面仍然存在许多挑战。该项目的目标是为安全可穿戴移动健康设计工具，并奠定科学基础。在此过程中，研究人员正在开发一个以健康监测和健康管理应用为中心的身体区域普适计算的通用框架。他们的愿景是，以手镯或吊坠等形式出现的计算珠宝，将为成功的全身移动医疗网络提供必要的属性。这些设备协调身体区域网络的活动，并提供与佩戴者通信的隐蔽手段。这种设备补充了智能手机的功能，弥合了移动电话可能实现的普适计算与可穿戴计算之间的差距。跨学科的研究团队正在设计和开发“护身符”，这是一种电子手环和软件框架，使开发人员能够创建（和用户轻松使用）安全，可靠和高效的移动健康应用程序，无缝地适应日常生活。这项研究正在确定计算珠宝在可用性、可靠性、安全性、隐私性和可用性方面的优势程度，并开发出能够提供这些特性的技术，尽管可穿戴珠宝的电力资源受到严重限制。

The advent of mobile health (mHealth) technology brings great opportunity to improve quality of life, improve individual and public health, and reduce healthcare costs. Although mHealth devices and applications are proliferating, many challenges remain to provide the necessary usability, manageability, interoperability, availability, security, and privacy. The goal of this project is to engineer the tools for, and lay the scientific foundation of, secure wearable mHealth. In the process, the investigators are developing a general framework for body-area pervasive computing, centered around health-monitoring and health-management applications.The vision is that computational jewelry, in a form like a bracelet or pendant, will provide the properties essential for successful body-area mHealth networks. These devices coordinate the activity of the body-area network and provide a discreet means for communicating with their wearer. Such devices complement the capabilities of a smartphone, bridging the gap between the type of pervasive computing possible with a mobile phone and that enabled by wearable computing.The interdisciplinary team of investigators is designing and developing 'Amulet', an electronic bracelet and a software framework that enables developers to create (and users to easily use) safe, secure, and efficient mHealth applications that fit seamlessly into everyday life. The research is determining the degree to which computational jewelry offers advantages in availability, reliability, security, privacy, and usability, and developing techniques that provide these properties in spite of the severely-constrained power resources of wearable jewelry.