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This paper presents the preliminary findings of an ongoing human factors re-search project addressing the digital transformation of the prostate cancer path-way to optimize patient experience, patient safety and clinical professionalism. The ...

Postpartum emotional disorders depending on the severity of symptoms can be divided into postpartum blues, postpartum depression, and postpartum psychosis. Those who develop severe symptoms may intend to commit suicide or harm the newborn. ...

Having quality sleeping is very critical for individuals to maintain a healthy life. Over the years, thanks to the big advances in wearable and sensing technologies, a wide variety of wearable devices had been pushed to the market. However, for ...

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a weak electrical signal that reflects the process of heart activity, and has multiple excellent features such as uniqueness, stability, versatility, non-repeatability, easy collection and so on. As a new type of ...

Biobanks and biorepositories present major challenges in managing, storing and making available large amounts of samples and associated information. The ability to share these samples is an important issue to improve research using human ...

Pediatric outpatient departments aim to provide a pleasant, effective and continuing care to children. However, a problem in these units is the long waiting time for children to receive an appointment. Prolonged appointment lead-time remains a ...

Accident and Emergency departments (A&ED) are in charge of providing access to patients requiring urgent acute care. A&ED are difficult to model due to the presence of interactions, different pathways and the multiple outcomes that patients may ...

Gynecology outpatient units are in charge of treating different gynecological diseases such as tumorous, cancer, urinary incontinence, gynecological pain, and abnormal discharge. On-time attention is thus needed to avoid severe complications, ...

Currently, healthcare is a crucial issue for the entire population, especially for individuals who suffer from a chronic disease such as hypertension or diabetes. However, this care is carried out in medical centers, limiting the scope of health ...

Determining the asthma health status of a person is a relevant task in the application of context-awareness and case-based reasoning for asthma management. As there are no devices that can track the asthma health status of a person constantly, it ...

Unilateral Spatial Neglect is a cognitive impairment commonly observed in patients after right hemispheric lesions. A patient with this condition will show a lack of attention or response to visual stimuli presented to the left space.

In order to ...

Robot-based assistance systems are widely utilized in industrial production today. In the near future, the numbers of applications in private households as well as in health care are also expected to grow. Such systems need to act and react ...

Despite the rapid application of artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare, we know comparatively little about how users perceive and evaluate these tools. Following “dual route” theories of information processing from decision science, we ...

The Neuroscience-Architecture cooperation indicates the potentiality of the built space in molding and shaping the structure of the brain and, consequentially, impacting and transforming the human behavior. Such potentiality is supported by the ...

The importance of nutrition for Parkinson’s disease patients has been acknowledged in many papers. On the other hand, the usability of tools supporting nutrition interventions is not well studied. This paper presents a case study on how to design ...

In this essay we present a number of functionalization methods for textiles through the use of microcapsules. For this purpose, the text explores the contributions of textile technology and reports on ways to obtain the functionalization of active ...

In this paper, we study a system that estimates the degree of decline in the driving ability of elderly people using non-verbal information from daily conversations. It is necessary for us to find the factors that would affect the calculation of ...

In recent years, end-of-life medical care and property allocation for Alzheimer’s patients have received attention. Due to the declining birthrate and aging society, there will be more and more patients with Alzheimer’s disease in the future. ...

Various robotic devices for elderly care have been developed and commercialized in Japan. However, the introduction of such devices to the society has not been enough. One of the major reasons for this is that it is still not clear how we can best ...

“Memes” design methodology was developed by Mitsukazu Okuda as a practical UX-design method. In the original, it was developed to analyze our cognitive process on usability testing for electric appliances. This approach is based on several key ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by resting tremor and postural instability. Essential Tremor (ET) disease is another neurological disorder which causes involuntary and rhythmic shaking of ...

Every year, millions of people experience a stroke but only a few of them fully recover. Recovery requires a working staff, which is time consuming and inefficient. Therefore, over the past few years rehabilitation robots like Exoskeletons have ...

Lifelog can be described as a digital library of an individual’s life, which is known for its ability to record life and help with memory. Autographer, a wearable camera that can captured images automatically, is always used for aiding episodic ...

This paper investigates the relationships of affection, among elderly inhabitants, with the downtown area of their city, especially when evoking and re-evoking memories of significant urban transformations experienced by them. The objective of ...

The goal of this research is to discuss and develop a chatbot, named Edgard, in the fields of electronic literature, interaction design and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It will address technologies and its contradictions, pointing out its ...

This study is about a mobile phone-based Chatbot specifically designed to provide information about family planning and contraceptives. Chatbot is essentially a text-messaging service that follows a decision-tree structure to provide feedback to ...

Our research group has been studying smart home services for elderly people, which detect their daily activities based on the environmental sensors in the house. However, such sensors can only obtain limited information. To execute more optimized ...

This paper is a report of an exploratory study of persuasive design for changing health attitudes and behaviors. The researchers designed a mobile web application for Latino parents about childhood obesity prevention called Lifecast and created ...

There are many chat services in the world, such as Slack (), Skype (), gitter.im (), etc. Generally, we cannot send messages over the different chat services, since there are no route to ...

Integrating the virtual agent, IoT, and cloud technologies, we have been developing a communication care system, where a person with dementia can talk to an agent every day at home. In order to achieve active conversations with a person with ...