Falls can cause serious traumas such as brain injuries and bone fractures, especially among elderly people. Fear of falling might reduce physical activities resulting in declining social interactions and eventually causing depression. To lessen the effects of a fall, timely delivery of medical treatment can play a vital role. In a similar scenario, an IoT-based wearable system can pave the most...

Wearable devices with a wide range of sensors have contributed to the rise of the Quantified Self movement, where individuals log everything ranging from the number of steps they have taken, to their heart rate, to their sleeping patterns. Sensors do not, however, typically sense the social and ambient environment of the users, such as general life style attributes or information about their so...

CONTEXT Wearable performance devices and sensors are becoming more readily available to the general population and athletic teams. Advances in technology have allowed individual endurance athletes, sports teams, and physicians to monitor functional movements, workloads, and biometric markers to maximize performance and minimize injury. Movement sensors include pedometers, accelerometers/gyrosco...

With the popularity of wearable devices, along with the development of clouds and cloudlet technology, there has been increasing need to provide better medical care. The processing chain of medical data mainly includes data collection, data storage and data sharing, etc. Traditional healthcare system often requires the delivery of medical data to the cloud, which involves users’ sensitive infor...

Effective countermeasures against explosive increase in healthcare expenditures are urgently needed. A paradigm shift in healthcare is called for, and academics and governments worldwide are working hard on the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) as a feasible and effective measure for reducing medical cost. The more prevalent the disease and the easier disease outco...

This paper introduces a wearable computer as a wearable personal station. We propose and implement wristwatch-style wearable personal station and its I/O devices in this paper. Nowadays the progress in miniaturizing more powerful computer systems and the availability of various devices around wearable computing will bring this technology to the edge of a new quality. Wearable computing is start...

The market penetration of user-centric assistive devices has rapidly increased in the past decades. Growth in computational power, accessibility, and "cognitive" device capabilities have been accompanied by significant reductions in weight, size, and price, as a result of which mobile and wearable equipment are becoming part of our everyday life. In this context, a key focus of development has ...

Before a group of co-located users can engage in spontaneous collaborative interactions with their devices, they must first bind their devices into a group. While a wide range of binding methods have been developed for connecting conventional devices such as computers or smartphones, the existing methods are not necessarily applicable to wearable devices, which are far more personal, intimate, ...