1. Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012
mHealth Services Science
Science in the Service of Life Quality
Dr Katarzyna Wac,
Senior Scientist, University of Geneva (CH)
Katarzyna.Wac@unige.ch
ITU Experts Group Meeting on m-Health: Towards
Better Care, Cure and Prevention in Europe
Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

2. Ongoing Projects
! Ambient Assisted Living: user-centric care services
! TraiNutri
! MyGuardian
! WayFiS
! Chronic Disease Management
! COPD24
2Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012
[Details: www.qol.unige.ch]
[A. Dey, K. Wac, et al., Getting Closer: An Empirical Investigation of the Proximity of User to Their Smart Phones, ACM UBICOMP, 2011 ]

3. AAL TraiNutri
TRAINing and NUTRItion
Senior Social Platform

4. Physical Activity Level Monitoring
4Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

5. TraiNutri
Targets
! Raise consciousness about self wellness
! Help people (50-65) developing healthy habits
! Enable the exchange of knowledge related to
healthy physical and nutritional habits
! Consortium
! Spain, Greece, Switzerland, the Netherlands
! www.trainutri.com
5Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

6. Algorithm: Raw Data & Sample Median
6Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012
[Papers: GHF’12, AAAI‘12, IWFAR’11, SAA‘11]

7. AAL WayFiS
Way Finding Seniors

8. WayFiS Application
8Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012
[Papers: ERCIM’12, WIGPT‘11]

9. WayFiS
Targets
! Improving the capability of seniors to plan,
manage and execute travel and transportation
projects taking into account their specific
limitations and habits
! Facilitating the elderly feeling of being healthy-
well and safe at any point of the trip
! Consortium
! Spain, Switzerland, Hungary
! www.wayfis.eu
9Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

10. AAL MyGuardian
A Pervasive Guardian
for Elderly
with Mild Cognitive Impairments

11. Example Use Case
11
[Screenshots by Dutch Freeband AWARENESS project]
Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

12. MyGuardian
Targets
! Facilitating safe & secure mobility of seniors with
mild cognitive impairments while preserving their
autonomy and dignity
! Improving wellbeing and efficiency of voluntary
caregivers by ensuring their peace of mind and
keeping them informed
! Human-centric approach
! Consortium
! Spain, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands
! www.myguardian-project.eu
12Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

13. COPD24
Tele-monitoring and Tele-Treatment
of
Chronic Obtrusive Pulmonary Disease

14. Example Use Case
Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 April 2012 14[Papers: IEEE IM‘11]

15. mHealth Technical Challenges
! Performance
! ‘Best-effort’ network
infrastructures
! Delays: one way or
round-trip delays
! Throughput: consumer-
producer paradigm
! Mobility: horizontal and
vertical handovers
! Intra- and inter-
operator
! Scalability
! Data priority (over voice)
! Communication costs
! Per MByte vs. ‘flat-rate’
! Security and Privacy
! Data encryption
! Power consumption
! Miniaturization of sensors/
actuators
! Service personalization
! Individual user’s needs
! Standardization and
interoperability
15Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012
[Papers: IEEE COMMAG‘12, IEEE TMC‘12, ACM UBICOMP’11, IEEE JSAC’09]

16. Conclusions & Recommendations
! Challenges Ahead
! Interoperability,
standardization
! User acceptance
! Privacy, trust
! Evaluation methods vs RCT
! Organizational issues,
pathways
! Legalization, liability
! Financial aspects,
reimbursements
! Recommendations
! mHealth technologically
feasible for non-critical cases
! Inter/trans-disciplinary
approach needed
! User-centered design
! Bridge the gap via an open,
trustworthy dialogue
! Encode implicit expectations
& requirements
! Innovation: “who’s turn is now”?
! Innovating the intervention
vs the mHealth delivery
16Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012
[K.Wac, Smartphone as a Personal, Pervasive Health Informatics Services Platform: Literature Review, IMIA Yearb Med Inform 2012 ]

17. Thank You!
! Quality of Life group
! Researching efficient and effective mobile systems
in the healthcare domain delivering validated
services to patients and healthcare professionals
"anywhere-anytime-anyhow”
! Publications & info
www.qol.unige.ch
17Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

18. QoSIS
Quality of Service Information System

19. QoSIS