The inferred cost of work-related stress call for prevention strategies that aim at detecting early
warning signs at the workplace. This paper goes one step towards the goal of developing …

Work should be a source of health, pride, and happiness, in the sense of enhancing motivation
and strengthening personal development. Healthy and motivated employees perform …

Personal and ubiquitous healthcare applications offer new opportunities to prevent long-term
health damage due to increased mental workload by continuously monitoring …

Objectives: The aging of the population creates pressure on the healthcare systems in
various ways. A massive increase of chronic disease conditions and age-related illness are …

Stress has become a significant cause for many diseases in the modern society. Recently,
smartphones, smartwatches and smart wrist-bands have become an integral part of our lives …

The inferred cost of work-related stress call for early prevention strategies. In this, we see a
new opportunity for affective and pervasive computing by detecting early warning signs. This …

Gait analysis is an important tool for the early detection of neurological diseases and for the
assessment of risk of falling in elderly people. The availability of low-cost camera hardware …

A textile pressure sensor has been designed for measuring pressure distribution on the
human body. Electrodes built with conductive textiles are arranged on both sides of a …

Data privacy is a very important issue. Especially in fields like medicine, it is paramount to
abide by the existing privacy regulations to preserve patients’ anonymity. However, data is …

Mental disorders can have a significant, negative impact on sufferers’ lives, as well as on
their friends and family, healthcare systems and other parts of society. Approximately 25 % of …