REU Site: Wireless Health Research and Education

摘要：REU站点：无线健康研究和教育REU本科生无线健康研究和教育站点解决了如何实现对社区患者的低成本监控以确保处方疗法的有效性的问题。考虑一下身体康复的例子。在理疗师的监督下进行的练习将被正确地进行。但一旦患者回家，就不能保证康复所需的运动做得很好，或者根本不能保证。有了智能手机和具有无线电功能的传感器等现代信息技术，现在可以部署患者易于使用的系统来提供这种监测。结合对传感器产生的数据的处理，可以向患者和他们的护理人员提供有意义的反馈，告诉他们练习做得如何，以及他们是否可以进行下一组练习。这既保证了更好的护理，也承诺了提供更低的成本。在人口老龄化的情况下，这一点尤其重要，而且在尽可能长时间实现独立生活方面需要更多的援助。学生们将在暑期研究期间致力于为这类应用开发新技术。启动的一些项目将作为下一年本科生和研究生课程的起点，让更多的学生在了解这一新兴的无线健康领域的同时进一步发展它们。因此，研究和教育部分紧密结合在一起，导致对许多工程师的培训，以支持改善和降低医疗成本的重要社会目标。该网站将影响科学和教育研究社区。这项提议的智力重点是开发无线健康实验设备和程序，目标是使社区能够大规模部署应用程序，包括身体康复、监测慢性病、运动训练和促进健康(例如，通过锻炼)。目前，监测方法要么成本高昂，要么需要精心校准；我们的重点是容忍设备误用的健壮程序。为此，夏季制作的工具和程序将在常规课程中进一步扩展，包括高级设计，以通过接触更多的人群来强化设计。通过这种方式，更多的本科生将参与研究，工具在每个学年都会更新。这项研究将有多种好处：增加学生的技能、知识基础和为未来学习做准备；并促进具有科学、医学和社会相关性的研究突破。该网站的主要目标是为本科生，特别是女性和代表性不足的学生提供高质量的研究经验和专业发展。我们的招聘工作将集中在寻找来自其他机构的学生，特别是那些可能无法获得研究机会的学生，以参与该计划。通过精心设计的研究项目，参与的本科生积极参与无线健康研究所的研究，获得研究生生活的第一手体验。这种体验(平衡研究、专业发展和网络活动)使本科生学者受益，但也为参与的研究生和教师导师以及更广泛的研究社区提供了价值。此外，开发的工具和程序每年将支持50名本科生通过定期安排的高级设计课程进行研究。最后，参加其他暑期研究项目的学生，特别是来自社区大学的学生，参加我们旨在促进研究进展的脚手架。

Abstract: REU Site: Wireless Health Research and EducationThe Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Site for Wireless Health Research and Education addresses the problem of how to enable low-cost monitoring of patients in the community to ensure the effectiveness of prescribed therapies. Consider the example of physical rehabilitation. Exercises performed under the supervision of a physical therapist will be done properly. But once the patient goes home, there is no assurance that the exercises necessary for recovery are done properly, or at all. With modern information technology such as smart phones and radio-capable sensors, it is now possible to deploy systems that are easy for patients to use that provide such monitoring. Together with processing of the data the sensors produce, meaningful feedback can be provided to both the patients and their caregivers on how well they are doing the exercises, and whether they can progress to the next set. This promises both better care and lower cost in providing it. This is especially important with the aging of the population, and the need for additional assistance in achieving independent living for as long as possible. Students will work on developing new technologies for such applications during their summer research. Some of the projects initiated will then be used as the jumping off point for undergraduate and graduate courses in the following year for many more students to develop them further while also learning about this emerging field of wireless health. Thus, the research and educational components are tightly coupled, resulting in training of many engineers to support the important societal goal of improved and lower cost healthcare.This Site will impact both scientific and educational research communities. The intellectual focus of this proposal is on the development of wireless health experimental equipment and procedures with the goal of enabling large-scale deployments in the community for applications including physical rehabilitation, monitoring of chronic conditions, sports training and promotion of wellness (e.g., through exercise). Presently, monitoring methods are either costly or require elaborate calibration; our focus is on robust procedures that are tolerant of equipment misuse. To this end, tools and procedures produced in the summers will be further extended in regular courses, including senior design, to harden the designs through exposure to larger populations. In this way a much larger of group of undergraduate students will participate in research, with tools that are refreshed in each academic year. This research will have multiple benefits: increasing students' skills, knowledge base, and preparation for future study; and contributing to research breakthroughs with scientific, medical, and social relevance. The main objective of this Site is to provide high quality research experiences and professional development to undergraduates, especially women and underrepresented students. Our recruitment efforts will focus on identifying students from other institutions, particularly those that may not have access to research opportunities, to participate in the program. With carefully designed research projects, participating undergraduates become actively involved in the research of the Wireless Health Institute, gaining a first-hand experience of life as a graduate student. This experience (balancing research, professional development, and networking activities) benefits the undergraduate scholars but also provides value to participating graduate student and faculty mentors, and the broader research communities. Moreover, the tools and procedures developed will each year support 50 undergraduates per year in pursuing research through regularly scheduled senior design courses. Finally, students in other summer research programs, particularly from community colleges, participate in our scaffolding designed to enhance progress to research.