Wearable Tracker Keeps Tabs on Patients, Soldiers
From: Wireless Design Magazine - 09/06/2016

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have developed a
multi-modal sensing device that can track the fine-grained activities and
behavior of people with dementia - and it could help in Army combat training,
too.

Dr. Debraj De, a postdoctoral fellow at Missouri S&T, and Dr. Sajal K. Das,
the Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair and department chair of computer science
at Missouri S&T, created a wearable device for the wrist that can track a
person's movements, ambient environment, bio-signals and much more. In
collaboration with Dr. Mignon Makos, a neurologist at Phelps County Regional
Medical Center (PCRMC), the device is going to be tested for patient
rehabilitation and routine evaluation.

Looking like an oversized watch, the sensing device has four basic functions.
Like a fitness tracker, it records fine-grained movement. It also measures
the wearer's direct physical environment for temperature, humidity and
barometric air pressure. It also will track health status through heart rate,
respiration rate and galvanic skin response (a person's skin reacts to
stimuli through the sympathetic nervous system, producing a weak electrical
current that indicates the wearer's emotional state, such as being startled
or agitated, De says). Finally, the sensing device has a functions like GPS
and communication with Bluetooth beacons in proximity for various location
contexts.

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https://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2016/09/wearable-tracker-keeps-tabs-patients-soldiers
https://www.mdtmag.com/article/2016/09/wearable-tracker-keeps-tabs-patients-soldiers

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'Care Chair' Helps Detect Patients' Movements, Mental State
https://www.mdtmag.com/news/2016/09/care-chair-helps-detect-patients-movements-mental-state
http://news.mst.edu/2016/08/care-chair-helps-detect-patients-movements-mental-state