Title :
Heartphones: Sensor Earphones and Mobile Application for Non-obtrusive Health Monitoring
Author :
Poh, Ming-Zher ; Kim, Kyunghee ; Goessling, Andrew D. ; Swenson, Nicholas C. ; Picard, Rosalind W.
Author_Institution :
Harvard-MITDivision of Health Sci. & Technol., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes the development and evaluation of wearable sensor earphones coupled with a mobile platform for comfortable assessment of cardiovascular function. Photoplethysmographic sensors were integrated into regular earphones to provide discreet and non-stigmatizing heart rate measurements. Preliminary results indicate that the proposed system has a high degree of accuracy at rest with an average error of 0.63%.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; cardiology; earphones; medical computing; mobile computing; optical sensors; patient monitoring; wearable computers; Heartphones; continuous heart rate monitoring; mobile application; nonstigmatizing heart rate measurements; photoplethysmographic sensors; wearable sensor earphones; Application software; Computerized monitoring; Ear; Fingers; Headphones; Heart rate; Mobile computing; Sensor systems; Wearable computers; Wearable sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Wearable Computers, 2009. ISWC '09. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Linz
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3779-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISWC.2009.35
