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Complex events are instrumental in understanding advanced behaviours and properties of a system. They can represent more meaningful events as compared to simple events. In this thesis we propose to use wearable sensor signals to detect complex events. Thes ...

EPFL2017

See-through ophthalmoscope for retinal imaging

Christophe Moser, Dino Carpentras

With the miniaturization of scanning mirrors and the emergence of wearable health monitoring, an intriguing step is to investigate the potential of a laser scanning ophthalmoscope (LSO) for retinal imaging with wearable glasses. In addition to providing mo ...

Spie-Soc Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers2017

Mobile Health Applications to Promote Active and Healthy Ageing

Kamiar Aminian

The European population is ageing, and there is a need for health solutions that keep older adults independent longer. With increasing access to mobile technology, such as smartphones and smartwatches, the development and use of mobile health applications ...

Mdpi Ag2017

Semantic representation and processing of hypoglycemic events derived from wearable sensor data

Karl Aberer, Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

Diabetes Type 1 is a metabolic disease which results in a lack of insulin production, causing high glucose levels in the blood. It is crucial for diabetic patients to balance this glucose level, and they depend on external substances to do so. In order to ...

Ios Press2017

An Accurate Wearable Foot Clearance Estimation System: towards a real time measurement system

Kamiar Aminian, Arash Arami

This work presents an accurate, robust, wearable measurement system for foot clearance estimation along with algorithms to provide a real-time estimate of foot height and orientation. Different configurations of infrared distance meter sensors were used, b ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Instrumented shoes for activity classification in the elderly

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Christopher Moufawad El Achkar

Quantifying daily physical activity in older adults can provide relevant monitoring and diagnostic information about risk of fall and frailty. In this study, we introduce instrumented shoes capable of recording movement and foot loading data unobtrusively ...

Elsevier2016

Peer Influence on the Engagement of Fitness Tracker Usage: A Diabetes and Obesity Study

Pearl Pu Faltings, Yu Chen

Maintaining a physically active lifestyle is important for diabetic and obese patients, but how to motivate them to exercise and engage them in the long run remains a challenging issue. We aim to motivate their activities using fitness trackers and prevent ...

Ieee2016

Stressful First Impressions in Job Interviews

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Laurent Son Nguyen, Skanda Muralidhar

Stress can impact many aspects of our lives, such as the way we interact and work with others, or the first impressions that we make. In the past, stress has most commonly been assessed through selfreported questionnaires; however, advancements in wearable ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

The FARSEEING real-world fall repository: a large-scale collaborative database to collect and share sensor signals from real-world falls

Kamiar Aminian, Alan Kevin Bourke

Real-world fall events objectively measured by body-worn sensors can improve the understanding of fall events in older people. However, these events are rare and hence challenging to capture. Therefore, the FARSEEING (FAll Repository for the design of Smar ...

Springer Heidelberg2016

Google Glass-Directed Monitoring and Control of Microfluidic Biosensors and Actuators

Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Danilo Demarchi

Google Glass is a recently designed wearable device capable of displaying information in a smartphone-like hands-free format by wireless communication. The Glass also provides convenient control over remote devices, primarily enabled by voice recognition c ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

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