ABR: Collaborative research: Computational Jewelry for Mobile Health

移动的健康（mHealth）技术有望提高生活质量，改善个人和公共健康，并降低医疗保健成本。虽然移动健康设备和应用程序正在激增，但挑战仍然存在。Amulet项目专注于可用性、可扩展性、互操作性、可用性、安全性和隐私性，致力于设计安全可穿戴mHealth的工具，并奠定其科学基础，方法是开发一个身体区域普适计算的通用框架，以健康监测和健康管理应用为中心。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（用户也可以轻松使用）安全、可靠和高效的mHealth应用程序，无缝融入日常生活。这种基于知识的更新扩展了这项工作？完善和扩展Amulet平台？的功能，评估其性能和可用性在大规模的研究，并过渡到一个开放的和可扩展的工具，为研究和医疗保健community.The研究人员预计Amulet将是一个平台，为广泛的mHealth应用程序，该项目评估这种潜力在一个具体的设置与技术和行为健康中心合作在达特茅斯学院。该项目探索了Amulet平台在新应用中的使用，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，以便为成功向研究界公开发布平台做好准备。Amulet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.