HealthAware: Tackling Obesity with Health Aware Smart Phone Systems
Obesity prevention requires individuals to have healthy eating and physical activity awareness in their daily lives. New technological products have been explored to help monitoring individual health behaviors. Smart phones are ubiquitous hand-held tools with rich embedded sensors and limited computing power. A smart phone is a prospective candidate to integrate physical exercise analysis and food intake monitoring. This paper presents a novel health-aware smart phone system (HealthAware) which utilizes the embedded accelerometer to monitor daily physical activities and the built-in camera to analyze food items. The system presents the users physical activity counts at real time to remind how much daily activity is needed to keep healthy. The user takes pictures of food items and the system provides health related information regarding to the food item intakes. The system is composed of an ondevice database which holds the user specific data and food item information. HealthAware is a real time practical system to prevent obesity by enhancing individual daily healthy behavior awareness.
Chunming Gao Fanyu Kong Jindong Tan
School of Technology Michigan Technological University Electrical and Computer EngineeringMichigan Technological University Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan Technological University
国际会议
2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics(2009 IEEE 机器人与仿生技术国际会议 ROBIO 2009)
桂林
英文
1549-1554
2009-12-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）