Abstract
Background: This accompanying editorial provides a brief introduction into the focus theme “Wearable Therapy”. Objectives: The focus theme “Wearable Therapy” aims to present contributions which target wearable and mobile technologies to support clinical and self-directed therapy. Methods: A call for papers was announced to all participants of the “9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare” and was published in November 2015. A peer review process was conducted to select the papers for the focus theme. Results: Six papers were selected to be included in this focus theme. The paper topics cover a broad range including an approach to build a health informatics research program, a comprehensive literature review of self-quantification for health self-management, methods for affective state detection of informal care givers, social-aware handling of falls, smart shoes for supporting selfdirected therapy of alcohol addicts, and reference information model for pervasive health systems. Conclusions: More empirical evidence is needed that confirms sustainable effects of employing wearable and mobile technology for clinical and self-directed therapy. Inconsistencies between different conceptual approaches need to be revealed in order to enable more systematic investigations and comparisons.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 37-39 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Methods of Information in Medicine |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- Health self-management
- Pervasive health
- Self-directed therapy
- Self-quantification
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Informatics
- Advanced and Specialised Nursing
- Health Information Management