ABR: Collaborative research: Computational Jewelry for Mobile Health

移动健康(MHealth)技术承诺提高生活质量，改善个人和公共健康，并降低医疗成本。尽管移动健康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，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及计算的通用框架，努力设计用于安全可穿戴mHealth的工具，并为其奠定科学基础。Amulet团队已经构建了一个原型计算珠宝平台：一个电子手镯和一个软件框架，使开发人员能够创建(和用户可以轻松使用)安全、安全和高效的mHealth应用程序，这些应用程序无缝地融入日常生活。这项基于成就的更新扩展了这项工作-提炼和扩展Aulet平台-S功能，在更大规模的研究中评估其性能和可用性，并将该技术转变为研究和医疗保健社区的开放和可扩展的工具。研究人员预计Aulet将成为一个适用于广泛mHealth应用的平台，该项目与达特茅斯学院技术和行为健康中心合作，在具体环境中评估了这一潜力。该项目探索了Amulet平台在新应用中的使用，使用了新的可穿戴传感器和新型用户交互。这一探索包括部署Amulet原型来研究压力和其他行为健康指标，并根据用户反馈改进Amulet硬件和软件，以便为平台成功向研究社区公开发布做好准备。随着科技和健康科学研究人员探索新兴的可穿戴技术领域，护身符将带来令人兴奋的新机会。

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.