TY - GEN
T1 - Standing hypotension prediction based on smartwatch heart rate variability data
T2 - 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016
AU - Iakovakis, Dimitrios
AU - Hadjileontiadis, Leontios
PY - 2016/9/6
Y1 - 2016/9/6
N2 - The number of wearable and smart devices which are connecting every day in the Internet of Things (IoT) is continuously growing. We have a great opportunity though to improve the quality of life (QoL) standards by adding medical value to these devices. Especially, by exploiting IoT technology, we have the potential to create useful tools which utilize the sensors to provide biometric data. This novel study aims to use a smartwatch, independent from other hardware, to predict the Blood Pressure (BP) drop caused by postural changes. In cases that the drop is due to orthostatic hypotension (OH) can cause dizziness or even faint factors, which increase the risk of fall in the elderly but, as well as, in younger groups of people. A mathematical prediction model is proposed here which can reduce the risk of fall due to OH by sensing heart rate variability (data and drops in systolic BP after standing in a healthy group of 10 subjects. The experimental results justify the efficiency of the model, as it can perform correct prediction in 86.7% of the cases, and are encouraging enough for extending the proposed approach to pathological cases, such as patients with Parkinson's disease, involving large scale experiments.
AB - The number of wearable and smart devices which are connecting every day in the Internet of Things (IoT) is continuously growing. We have a great opportunity though to improve the quality of life (QoL) standards by adding medical value to these devices. Especially, by exploiting IoT technology, we have the potential to create useful tools which utilize the sensors to provide biometric data. This novel study aims to use a smartwatch, independent from other hardware, to predict the Blood Pressure (BP) drop caused by postural changes. In cases that the drop is due to orthostatic hypotension (OH) can cause dizziness or even faint factors, which increase the risk of fall in the elderly but, as well as, in younger groups of people. A mathematical prediction model is proposed here which can reduce the risk of fall due to OH by sensing heart rate variability (data and drops in systolic BP after standing in a healthy group of 10 subjects. The experimental results justify the efficiency of the model, as it can perform correct prediction in 86.7% of the cases, and are encouraging enough for extending the proposed approach to pathological cases, such as patients with Parkinson's disease, involving large scale experiments.
KW - Blood pressure drop
KW - Heart rate variability
KW - Regression
KW - Smartwatch
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84991098222&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2957265.2970370
DO - 10.1145/2957265.2970370
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84991098222
T3 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct, MobileHCI 2016
SP - 1109
EP - 1112
BT - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct, MobileHCI 2016
Y2 - 6 September 2016 through 9 September 2016
ER -