Devices and Networking Summit – Tutorial 1, Wearable Health Monitoring

  • Ali Alvi, Microsoft; Desney Tan, Microsoft

Presenters: Desney Tan, Microsoft Research; Ali Alvi, Microsoft and Shwetak Patel, University of Washington

There is an emerging trend to instrument the world with sensors that provide insight and allow us to improve the health and function of various systems. For example, cars now use many sensors for on-board diagnostics, shifting us from reactive crisis-driven repairs to proactive preventive maintenance. Similar trends pervade our homes, workplaces, and outdoor environments. We must apply this approach to the system we arguably care the most about ΓÇô our bodies. We will open the session with a high level overview of wearable health technology. We will describe our early research on exercise and activity sensing, which has now been incorporated into the Microsoft Band. We will then demonstrate capabilities of the Band, as well as present example applications built with the Software Development Kit. We will close with some of our current work, pushing beyond consumer health and fitness into clinical health sensors.

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