Smart Sensing Technologies for Personalised Coaching

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; activities of daily living; activity recognition; affordance; animate objects; Bayesian network; behavior change; Bluetooth beacons; cadence; cardiac rehabilitation; coaching; context recognition; context-awareness; diabetes education; digital coaching; e-coaching; electric bicycles; elevation change analysis; fuzzy linguistic approach; fuzzy logic; health; healthy lifestyle; human activity recognition; human-centered computing; inertial sensors; m-health; m-health intervention; machine learning; marathon; mobile application; multimodal cueing; personalization; personalized assistance level; physical activity; real-time wearable monitoring; remote coaching; sedentary lifestyle; self-management; serious gaming; smart objects; smartphones; tangible user interface; telehealth; telemonitoring; ubiquitous computing; unhealthy sitting habits; user evaluations; wearable computing; wearable devices; wearable sensors; wrist-worn heart rate devices
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036517896; 9783036517902; books978-3-0365-1789-6
• Access: Open Access

People living in both developed and developing countries face serious health challenges related to sedentary lifestyles. It is therefore essential to find new ways to improve health so that people can live longer and can age well. With an ever-growing number of smart sensing systems developed and deployed across the globe, experts are primed to help coach people toward healthier behaviors. The increasing accountability associated with app- and device-based behavior tracking not only provides timely and personalized information and support but also gives us an incentive to set goals and to do more. This book presents some of the recent efforts made towards automatic and autonomous identification and coaching of troublesome behaviors to procure lasting, beneficial behavioral changes.