Title：Inertial Sensor Based Wearable Devices on Healthcare

Abstract

Despite the fact that the concept of using long-term personal records has been well recognized for decades, sparse patient physical exam records are still the main base for disease diagnosis and treatment. One of the main reasons for this is the lack of devices and systems for effectively collecting personal data and turning the data into health-meaningful information.

The current development of wearable devices with IoT presents a huge potential for fulfilling the needs of long-term data collecting and enabling patients to be monitored in real-time. Thus various types of wearable devices have been developed. Wearable vital sign measuring devices with IoT enable the elderly with chronic diseases to be monitored, connected to healthcare providers and offered treatment at the right moment. Smart drug dispensers provide automatic reminders and medication recording capability for better treatment. In this talk, we will focus on the introduction of the inertial sensors based wearable devices for motion analysis and their applications to healthcare. Methods for turning the measured inertial signals into information for better understanding the elderly situation will also be presented. Along the talk a brief overview on the development of wearable devices and IoT and their impacts on reshaping healthcare will also be given.

Author Biography

Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung (S’89-M’91-SM’02-F’08) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University, USA, in 1991. She then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, in 1991 and has become a full professor in 1996. She served as the Head of Department of Electrical Engineering (2011-2014), the Director of Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering (2008-2011), the Vice Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2011), the Director of the Center for Research of E-life Digital Technology (2005-2008), and the Director of Electrical Laboratory (2005-2008), NCKU. She was elected Distinguished Professor of NCKU in 2005 and received the Distinguished Professor Award of Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2012. She also served as Program Director of Intelligent Computing Division, Ministry of Science and Technology (2012-2014), Taiwan. She served as the Director of the Department of Information and Technology Education, Ministry of Education.

Dr. Chung’s research interests include computational intelligence, medical image analysis, video analysis, and pattern recognition. She applies most of her research results to healthcare and medical applications. Dr. Chung participated in many international conferences and society activities. She served as the program committee member in many international conferences. She served as the Publicity Co-Chair of WCCI 2014, SSCI 2013, SSCI 2011, and WCCI 2010. She served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems(2013-2015) and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.

Dr. Chung was the Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) (2004-2005) in Tainan Chapter, the Chair of the IEEE Life Science Systems and Applications Technical Committee (2008-2009). She was a member in BoG of CAS Society (2007-2009, 2010-2012). She served as an IEEE CAS Society Distinguished Lecturer (2005-2007) and the Chair of CIS Distinguished Lecturer Program (2012-2013). She served on two terms of ADCOM member of IEEE CIS (2009-2011, 2012-2014), the Chair of IEEE CIS Women in Engineering (2014). She is a Member of Phi Tau Phi honor society and is an IEEE Fellow since 2008. She also served as the Vice President for Members Activities of IEEE CIS (2015-2018).