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e-Health Pervasive Wireless Applications and Services (e-HPWAS'19)
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e-Health Pervasive Wireless Applications and Services (e-HPWAS'19)

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information and Communications Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2020) | Viewed by 16240

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Tayeb Lemlouma

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IRISA CNRS Lab, Univ Rennes, IUT de Lannion, 22300 Lannion, France
Interests: context awareness; pervasive and ubiquitous computing; IoT; e-Health; smart and media services in heterogeneous environments; smart content delivery; content-centric
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Prof. Dr. Abderrezak Rachedi

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Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard Monge, Université Gustave Eiffel, 77454 Marne-la-Vallée, France
Interests: computer network; Internet of Things; AIoT: artificial Intelligent of Things; applied cryptography; blockchain
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Dr. Sébastien Laborie

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LIUPPA Lab, University of Pau, 64012 Pau, France
Interests: multimedia documents and applications; adaptation and user profiling; semantic web
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Dr. Yevgeniya Kovalchuk

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School of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University, Birmingham B5 5JU, UK
Interests: artificial intelligence; machine learning; software engineering; embedded systems; software–hardware integration; sensors and wearables; cyber security; mutli-agent systems; healthcare informatics; movement science and movement and art therapy
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

e-HPWAS'19 aims at providing optimal, secure, and context-aware e-health systems with the best quality of services (QoS) and user experience (QoE). Applications and services are implemented in wireless environments and architecture with the use of IoT (Internet of Things), big data analysis, and a strong heterogeneity of access technologies, sensors, terminals, users’ needs analyzers, and services (data, content, live streams, or complex network services).

Emerging e-health services and applications can involve the use of “heavy” content, such as multimedia content and streams (e.g., 3D-TV, media conferencing, remote live diagnostics) using conventional e-health devices, or terminals like smart TV sets, home boxes, smartphones, tablets, and new Things. The main topics of e-HPWAS are related to e-health care and safety services provided for patients, the elderly, and dependent persons. These services are generally built using different communication technologies, for different profiles of people in different contexts and places (e.g., in health institutions, at home, in cities). The provided services should ideally be accessible anytime, anywhere, and using any kind of device or platform.

Authors of the IEEE eHPWAS 2019 are encouraged to submit an extended version of their work to this Special Issue of the journal Information with a minimum of 50% of new content and input. Papers describing advanced prototypes, platforms, techniques, and general surveys for discussing future perspectives and directions are particularly encouraged. Each manuscript will be blind-reviewed by academic editors.

Dr. Tayeb Lemlouma
Dr. Abderrezak Rachedi
Dr. Sébastien Laborie
Dr. Yevgeniya Kovalchuk
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Keywords

  • E-health
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Big data analysis, summarization, prediction
  • Sensor networks (e.g., BAN, WPAN, etc.)
  • Network interoperability
  • Security and privacy
  • User acceptance
  • Norms for e-Health (e.g., HL7 norms, electronic health information exchange-HIE, Health Record-HER)
  • Web norms for e-health (e.g., WebRTC)
  • Context models
  • E-Health, artificial intelligence, and machine learning techniques

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My-AHA: Software Platform to Promote Active and Healthy Ageing
by Pedro Madureira, Nuno Cardoso, Filipe Sousa, Waldir Moreira, Antonio Oliveira-Jr, Marco Bazzani and Philip Gouverneur
Information 2020, 11(9), 438; https://doi.org/10.3390/info11090438 - 11 Sep 2020
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The population is getting old, and the use of technology has improved the quality of life of the senior population. This is confirmed by the increasing number of solutions targeting healthy and active ageing. Such solutions keep track of the daily routine of [...] Read more.
The population is getting old, and the use of technology has improved the quality of life of the senior population. This is confirmed by the increasing number of solutions targeting healthy and active ageing. Such solutions keep track of the daily routine of the elderly and combine it with other relevant information (e.g., biosignals, physical activity, social activity, nutrition) to help identify early signs of decline. Caregivers and elders use this information to improve their routine, focusing on improving the current condition. With that in mind, we have developed a software platform to support My-AHA, which is composed of a multi-platform middleware, a decision support system (DSS), and a dashboard. The middleware seamlessly merges data coming from multiple platforms targeting health and active ageing, the DSS performs an intelligent computation on top of the collected data, and the dashboard provides a user’s interaction with the whole system. To show the potential of the proposed My-AHA software platform, we introduce the My Personal Dashboard web-based application over a frailty use case to illustrate how senior well-being can benefit from the use of technology. Full article
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Personality Traits, Gamification and Features to Develop an App to Reduce Physical Inactivity
by Charlotte Meixner, Hannes Baumann and Bettina Wollesen
Information 2020, 11(7), 367; https://doi.org/10.3390/info11070367 - 19 Jul 2020
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Background: Health benefits from physical activity (PA) can be achieved by following the WHO recommendation for PA. To increase PA in inactive individuals, digital interventions can provide cost-effective and low-threshold access. Moreover, gamification elements can raise the motivation for PA. This study analyzed [...] Read more.
Background: Health benefits from physical activity (PA) can be achieved by following the WHO recommendation for PA. To increase PA in inactive individuals, digital interventions can provide cost-effective and low-threshold access. Moreover, gamification elements can raise the motivation for PA. This study analyzed which factors (personality traits, app features, gamification) are relevant to increasing PA within this target group. Methods: N = 808 inactive participants (f = 480; m = 321; age = 48 ± 6) were integrated into the analysis of the desire for PA, the appearance of personality traits and resulting interest in app features and gamification. The statistical analysis included chi-squared tests, one-way ANOVA and regression analysis. Results: The main interests in PA were fitness (97%) and outdoor activities (75%). No significant interaction between personality traits, interest in PA goals, app features and gamification were found. The interest in gamification was determined by the PA goal. Participants’ requirements for features included feedback and suggestions for activities. Monetary incentives were reported as relevant gamification aspects. Conclusion: Inactive people can be reached by outdoor activities, interventions to increase an active lifestyle, fitness and health sports. The study highlighted the interest in specific app features and gamification to increase PA in inactive people through an app. Full article
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Big Picture on Privacy Enhancing Technologies in e-Health: A Holistic Personal Privacy Workflow
by Stefan Becher, Armin Gerl, Bianca Meier and Felix Bölz
Information 2020, 11(7), 356; https://doi.org/10.3390/info11070356 - 8 Jul 2020
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The collection and processing of personal data offers great opportunities for technological advances, but the accumulation of vast amounts of personal data also increases the risk of misuse for malicious intentions, especially in health care. Therefore, personal data are legally protected, e.g., by [...] Read more.
The collection and processing of personal data offers great opportunities for technological advances, but the accumulation of vast amounts of personal data also increases the risk of misuse for malicious intentions, especially in health care. Therefore, personal data are legally protected, e.g., by the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which states that individuals must be transparently informed and have the right to take control over the processing of their personal data. In real applications privacy policies are used to fulfill these requirements which can be negotiated via user interfaces. The literature proposes privacy languages as an electronic format for privacy policies while the users privacy preferences are represented by preference languages. However, this is only the beginning of the personal data life-cycle, which also includes the processing of personal data and its transfer to various stakeholders. In this work we define a personal privacy workflow, considering the negotiation of privacy policies, privacy-preserving processing and secondary use of personal data, in context of health care data processing to survey applicable Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to ensure the individuals’ privacy. Based on a broad literature review we identify open research questions for each step of the workflow. Full article
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