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

移动健康(MHealth)技术的出现为提高生活质量、改善个人和公共健康、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、安全性和隐私方面仍存在许多挑战。该项目的目标是设计用于安全可穿戴mHealth的工具，并为其奠定科学基础。在这个过程中，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，像手镯或吊坠一样的计算珠宝将提供成功的身体区域mHealth网络所必需的属性。这些设备协调身体区域网络的活动，并为与佩戴者交流提供了一种谨慎的方式。这些设备补充了智能手机的功能，弥合了手机可能实现的普适计算和可穿戴计算实现的普适计算之间的差距。跨学科的调查团队正在设计和开发一种名为“护身符”的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mHealth应用程序，这些应用程序无缝地融入日常生活。这项研究正在确定计算珠宝在可用性、可靠性、安全性、私密性和可用性方面的优势程度，并开发技术来提供这些特性，尽管可穿戴珠宝的电力资源严重受限。

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.