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- Seoane, Fernando, 1976-, et al.
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Personalized Health and Intelligent Workplaces Transforming Ergonomics : Some Lessons Learnt
- 2019
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Ingår i: Transforming Ergonomics with Personalized Health and Intelligent Workplaces. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 9781614999720 - 9781614999737 ; , s. 115-119
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This section contains lessons learnt mainly from several different projects funded by different private and public financiers. The projects were funded from Swedish national and European financiers. The project consortia had significantly different composition with both public and private partners being national, international or cross-national. All these projects have in common that aimed at integrating Wearable Sensing technologies with Information and Communication Technologies to improve the working environment conditions to avoid the exposure to high risk posture and movements leading to musculoskeletal disorders and increasing the risk of injuries. The origin of these lessons learnt is very broad lessons and have been grouped in the following categories: Information Technology Infrastructure, Data Security and Policy issues; Regulatory and Ethics; Employees concerns, human interactions and dual role users and targets; Body Sensing Networks; and Team Management & Communication.
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- Vega Barbas, Mario, 1984-
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Accessible interaction solution based on confidence for the deployment of pervasive sensitive services in intelligent environments
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Services based on the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are present more and more in the lives of people. The advancement of ICT in technical and social acceptance terms has led the creation of new models of service provision. These provision models involve further integration with people's activities so that are not only present in their professions or civic space but also in a more intimate areas related to their own identity. So it is now common to find services aware of user's health, their domestic habits, ideology, etc. Therefore, the analysis of existing services must be open out to include other aspects related to the way of being and feeling of their members. This way is possible to ensure both the technical correctness of its features as promoting safe and respectful solutions both of civic rights as the way of being and feeling of its members.From the engineering point of view, the user perspective has historically encompassed under the concept of technological acceptance. Within this field can be interpreted as friendly solutions adapted to users will encourage the acceptance by them. Solution acceptance is desirable although it is difficult to ensure. This difficulty is due to the lack of the number of variables that affect the acceptance of technological solutions and the difficulty of optimizing the known variables.In this thesis it is studied and characterized one of the variables that affect the acceptance of existing services: confidence. Confidence is defined in psychological terms, providing its characterization with the aim of be used in typical methods of engineering. Also different tools are proposed to facilitate the optimization of this confidence in services whose complexity establishes this variable in a basic issue to improve acceptance.Health services deployed in a home have been chosen as working context for this thesis. This scenario presents a number of acceptance restrictions on the technology used to create services and how they manage the acquired user information. It comes to highly sensitive and delocalized services that can affect to the user's perception of the environment, the home, and generate fear or rejection to prevent final adoption as a valid solution.Once defined the generic framework, the main objective of this dissertation is focused on promote the acceptance of new pervasive and personalized health services and their deployment in domestic intelligent environments through a layout that promotes a psychological state of confidence in users. To achieve this goal, a set of results, both conceptual, technological and experimental, have been provided. In particular, it has offered a complete characterization of the feeling of confidence from a viewpoint of engineering and a definition of sensitive or delocalized pervasive service. Furthermore, a method for the inclusion of the Interaction Design discipline in engineering processes of such services through a set of patterns of interaction is offered. Finally, this thesis provides the development of a software architecture to ensure proper deployment of these pervasive sensitive services in intelligent environments in a confident way.Discussion of the results suggests the extension of the deployment model to different services of the Information Society that handle sensitive data both in the context of the digital home and other settings where the user perform everyday activities such as work spaces or schools. The future work lines include the imminent need to apply the results to ongoing developments, within research projects in those the author takes part, and the development of new research lines aimed at creating new spaces and interaction technologies as advanced accessible interfaces, toys of the future, confident visualization systems or security systems based on the condition of the user.
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- Vega-Barbas, Mario, et al.
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Adaptive Software Architecture Based on Confident HCI for the Deployment of Sensitive Services in Smart Homes
- 2015
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Ingår i: Sensors. - : Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. - 1424-8220. ; 15:4, s. 7294-7322
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Smart spaces foster the development of natural and appropriate forms of human-computer interaction by taking advantage of home customization. The interaction potential of the Smart Home, which is a special type of smart space, is of particular interest in fields in which the acceptance of new technologies is limited and restrictive. The integration of smart home design patterns with sensitive solutions can increase user acceptance. In this paper, we present the main challenges that have been identified in the literature for the successful deployment of sensitive services (e.g., telemedicine and assistive services) in smart spaces and a software architecture that models the functionalities of a Smart Home platform that are required to maintain and support such sensitive services. This architecture emphasizes user interaction as a key concept to facilitate the acceptance of sensitive services by end-users and utilizes activity theory to support its innovative design. The application of activity theory to the architecture eases the handling of novel concepts, such as understanding of the system by patients at home or the affordability of assistive services. Finally, we provide a proof-of-concept implementation of the architecture and compare the results with other architectures from the literature.
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- Vega-Barbas, Mario, et al.
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Adaptive Software Architecture for Confident Homecare in the Digital Home
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Smart spaces foster the development of more natural and suitable forms of human-computer interaction taking advantage of customization possibilities offered by the home. The interaction chances of the Digital Home, as a special type of smart space, have a special interest in fields where the acceptance of new technologies is low and restrictive. Homecare is a discipline where this acceptance is more problematic. The integration of digital home design patterns in homecare solutions should enhance the final acceptance of users. In this position paper, we present the main challenges identified from the literature for the successful implementation of homecare solutions in smart spaces and the design of a software architecture that models entities and functionalities involved in solving these challenges.
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- Vega-Barbas, Mario, et al.
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Confidence: dependencies and their critical role in fostering user acceptance in pervasive applications
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Pervasive computing offers new scenarios where users are surrounded by invisible and proactive technology making smart spaces. Although the utility and power of solutions developed using this computer paradigm are proved, there are unresolved problems that hinder their acceptance and inclusion in our private life. Users have problems understanding the operations of a pervasive computing solution, and therefore they should trust that the solution works properly and according to their expectations. Nevertheless, the concept of trust is already framed in a specific use within the ecosystem of applications that can populate a smart space. To take this concept of trust to the whole space, we propose to study and define the concept of confidence. In contrast to the concept of trust, confidence has deeper psychological implications.
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- Vega Barbas, Mario, 1984-, et al.
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Interaction Patterns for Smart Spaces : A Confident Interaction Design Solution for Pervasive Sensitive IoT Services
- 2018
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Ingår i: IEEE Access. - : IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC. - 2169-3536. ; 6, s. 1126-1136
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Smart spaces represent a powerful tool for deploying the new pervasive sensitive services based on Internet of Things products and developed in current information society close to users. Researchers have focused their efforts on new techniques to improve systems and products in this area but neglecting the human factors related to psychological aspects of the user and their psycho-social relationship with the deployment space where they live. This research proposes to take into account these cognitive features in early stages of the design of smart spaces by defining a set of interaction patterns. By using this set of interaction patterns it is possible to influence over the confidence that users can develop during the use of IoT products and services based on them. An evaluative verification has been carried out to assess how this design engineering approach provides a real impact on the generation of confidence in the users of this kind of technology.
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- Vega-Barbas, Mario, et al.
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P-Ergonomics Platform : Toward Precise, Pervasive, and Personalized Ergonomics using Wearable Sensors and Edge Computing
- 2019
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Ingår i: Sensors. - : MDPI. - 1424-8220. ; 19:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Preventive healthcare has attracted much attention recently. Improving people's lifestyles and promoting a healthy diet and wellbeing are important, but the importance of work-related diseases should not be undermined. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are among the most common work-related health problems. Ergonomists already assess MSD risk factors and suggest changes in workplaces. However, existing methods are mainly based on visual observations, which have a relatively low reliability and cover only part of the workday. These suggestions concern the overall workplace and the organization of work, but rarely includes individuals' work techniques. In this work, we propose a precise and pervasive ergonomic platform for continuous risk assessment. The system collects data from wearable sensors, which are synchronized and processed by a mobile computing layer, from which exposure statistics and risk assessments may be drawn, and finally, are stored at the server layer for further analyses at both individual and group levels. The platform also enables continuous feedback to the worker to support behavioral changes. The deployed cloud platform in Amazon Web Services instances showed sufficient system flexibility to affordably fulfill requirements of small to medium enterprises, while it is expandable for larger corporations. The system usability scale of 76.6 indicates an acceptable grade of usability.
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- Vega-Barbas, Mario, et al.
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Utilizing Smart Textiles-Enabled Sensorized Toy and Playful Interactions for Assessment of Psychomotor Development on Children
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Sensors. - : Hindawi Publishing Corporation. - 1687-725X .- 1687-7268. ; 2015
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Emerging pervasive technologies like smart textiles make it possible to develop new and more accessible healthcare services for patients independently of their location or time. However, none of these new e-health solutions guarantee a complete user acceptance, especially in cases requiring extensive interaction between the user and the solution. So far, researchers have focused their efforts on new interactions techniques to improve the perception of privacy and confidence of the people using e-health services. In this way, the use of smart everyday objects arises as an interesting approach to facilitate the required interaction and increase user acceptance. Such Smart Daily Objects together with smart textiles provide researchers with a novel way to introduce sophisticated sensor technology in the daily life of people. This work presents a sensorized smart toy for assessment of psychomotor development in early childhood. The aim of this work is to design, develop, and evaluate the usability and playfulness of a smart textile-enabled sensorized toy that facilitates the user engagement in a personalized monitoring healthcare activity. To achieve this objective the monitoring is based on a smart textile sensorized toy as catalyzer of acceptance and multimodal sensing sources to monitor psychomotor development activities during playtime.
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