People with a visual impairment (PVI) often experience difficulties with wayfinding. Current navigation applications have limited communication channels and do not provide detailed enough information to support PVI. By transmitting wayfinding information via multimodal channels and combining these with …

This poster gives an overview of the project Health and Wellness in a Connected Society. The application of new technological innovations are finding their way into the health and wellness sector where they are increasingly used for various purposes. The research project ‘Health and Wellness in a Connected …

Occupational stress can cause all kinds of health problems. Resilience interventions that help employees deal with and adapt to adverse events can prevent these negative consequences. Due to advances in sensor technology and smartphone applications, relatively unobtrusive self-monitoring of resilience-related …

Physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) have important implications for health benefits. A growing number of people use consumer available wearables such as activity trackers, which claim to objectively monitor PA and SB in free-living conditions. These devices could provide essential information …

This report systematically analyzes the requirements for building the Demo Facility. Based on these requirements a hardware platform for the demo facility is created and research regarding suitable excisting software is done.

During the last decades there has been an uprising in stress related health problems. To counter this growing problem, a system is proposed to detect stress events at an individual level. These events can then be used as feedback in efforts to prevent chronic stress symptoms from developing. To detect …

During the last decades there has been an uprising in stress related health problems. To counter this growing problem, a system is proposed to detect stress events at an individual level. These events can then be used as feedback in efforts to prevent chronic stress symptoms from developing. To detect …

Presentatie/workshop (60 min) op het jaarlijkse KNGF congres op de Dag van de Fysiotherapeut over de mogelijkheden om wearables in te zetten bij het monitoren van herstel in een fysiotherapeutische behandelzetting.

Op donderdag 8 november staat IT Academy colleges in het teken van gepersonaliseerde digitale gezondheid. Het college wordt verzorgd in samenwerking met het Lectoraat Personalized Digital Health (PDH) van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen. Lector dr. Hilbrand Oldenhuis en promovendus Herman de Vries bespreken …

Physical activity (PA) can have a substantial benefit in the prevention, treatment andrehabilitation of (breast) cancer. Wearable devices offer possibilities to monitor PA,to provide feedback and to set targets. Although the market for PA related wearabledevices is booming, the impact of these wearables …