ABR: Collaborative research: Computational Jewelry for Mobile Health

移动医疗（mHealth）技术有望提高生活质量，改善个人和公众健康，并降低医疗成本。尽管移动医疗设备和应用正在激增，但挑战依然存在。Amulet项目专注于可用性、可管理性、互操作性、可用性、安全性和隐私性，通过开发以健康监测和健康管理应用为中心的身体区域普适计算通用框架，致力于为安全可穿戴移动健康设计工具并奠定科学基础。Amulet团队建立了一个计算珠宝平台的原型：一个电子手环和一个软件框架，使开发人员能够创建（和用户轻松使用）安全、可靠、高效的移动健康应用程序，无缝地融入日常生活。这种基于成就的更新扩展了这项工作？精炼和扩展Amulet平台？S功能，评估其在大规模研究中的性能和可用性，并将该技术转变为面向研究和医疗保健社区的开放和可扩展工具。研究人员希望护身符将成为一个广泛的移动健康应用平台，该项目与达特茅斯学院技术和行为健康中心合作，在具体环境中评估这种潜力。该项目探索在新的应用中使用Amulet平台，使用新的可穿戴传感器和新的用户交互方式。这一探索包括将护身符原型用于研究压力和其他行为健康指标，并根据用户反馈改进护身符硬件和软件，以便为成功向研究社区公开发布平台做好准备。护身符将为技术和健康科学研究人员提供令人兴奋的新机会，因为他们正在探索新兴的可穿戴技术领域。

Mobile health (mHealth) technology promises to improve quality of life, improve individual and public health, and reduce healthcare costs. Although mHealth devices and applications are proliferating, challenges remain. With a focus on usability, manageability, interoperability, availability, security, and privacy, the Amulet project has worked to engineer the tools for, and lay the scientific foundation of, secure wearable mHealth by developing a general framework for body-area pervasive computing, centered around health-monitoring and health-management applications. The Amulet team has built a prototype computational jewelry platform: 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. This accomplishment-based renewal extends this work?refining and extending the Amulet platform?s functionality, evaluating its performance and usability in larger-scale studies, and transitioning the technology into an open and extensible tool for the research and healthcare communities.The investigators expect Amulet will be a platform for a wide range of mHealth applications, and this project evaluates this potential in a concrete setting in cooperation with the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth College. This project explores use of the Amulet platform in new applications, using new wearable sensors and new kinds of user interactions. This exploration includes fielding Amulet prototypes to study stress and other behavioral health metrics, and refining the Amulet hardware and software in response to user feedback, in order to prepare the platform for a successful public release to the research community. The Amulet will open exciting new opportunities as it becomes available to both technology and health-science researchers as they explore the burgeoning field of wearable technology.