Your mobility can be injurious to your health: Analyzing pervasive health monitoring systems under dynamic context changes

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Abstract

The advent of smart phones has enabled health care anywhere and anytime. With pervasive health care, a person can perform necessary day to day tasks while his health is recorded, controlled, and processed continuously using on body sensors and actuators to capture abnormalities, trends, and causes. In such a scenario, seamless operation of the pervasive health management system (PHMS), given dynamic changes in the context induced by mobility of the user is of utmost importance. Such context changes dynamically affect many aspects such as the processing requirements of the health management application, the available energy sources, the interaction between a medical device with the human body. For social acceptability of PHMSes, they have to be tested and verified for their safe, energy sustainable (long term) and reliable operation under such dynamically changing environment. This paper proposes a novel technique to analyze PHMSes under mobility induced dynamic changes in the context and constant interaction of the medical device with the human body. Results show that human mobility induced context changes can cause unsafe conditions such as drug overdose.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2012
Pages39-47
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event10th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2012 - Lugano, Switzerland
Duration: Mar 19 2012Mar 23 2012

Publication series

Name2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2012

Other

Other10th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2012
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityLugano
Period3/19/123/23/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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