Wearable technologies are available for many applications including healthcare monitoring. Often solutions require the person to wear bespoke sensors but what if the sensors could be embedded into invisibly into our cloths. As part of the Sphere project (www.irc-sphere.ac.uk) we have been exploring wearable sensing for healthcare. This has raised both technical and social questions such as what could we measure, and what information would be useful to the individual, the clinicians and the statisticians. There are also ethical questions, each individual should control their own data but how?
Sphere
SPHeRE a Sensor Platform for HEalthcare in a Residential Environment
Led by the University of Bristol
Goal: to record data relevant to healthcare from 100 homes in the Bristol area
Funded by the EPSRC for the period 2013-2018
Sphere Video
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Sphere research aims
Aims
Deploy, collect and analyse data from a range of sensors in 100 residential homes in the Bristol area.
Consider the data analysis and data mining techniques that can be employed to enable this data to be used by the individual, their carers, and researchers to monitor healthcare related problems
Sphere research aims.
Aims
Deploy, collect and analyse data from a range of sensors in 100 residential homes in the Bristol area.
Consider the data analysis and data mining techniques that can be employed to enable this data to be used by the individual, their carers, and researchers to monitor healthcare related problems
Research participants
Project is non specific to health problem but participants may have