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Daily routines are of great importance for personal health. For example, insufficient or irregular sleep is a strong risk factor for the development of a number of chronic diseases. Therefore, scientific research on daily routines is of high medical interest. Since smartphones are accepted by most people in daily life, they can be used as an unobtrusive tool to study daily routines. In addition, there is the increased use of smartwatches, which collect other important health parameters with additional sensors. However, there is a lack of secure smartphone applications that record daily routines and provide meaningful data.
The IES Lab Freiburg has a smartphone app for monitoring daily routines, called Bexome. Bexome allows researchers to study everyday routines. The application enables participants in scientific studies to collect data related to health and their environment. It also allows study participants to enter information about their diet, such as mealtime, type and amount of food.
IES Lab in Freiburg
The Intelligent Embedded Systems Lab (IES Lab Freiburg) pursues top-level research on basic and applied topics of wearable computing, digital health, machine learning, mobile health, biomedical engineering, and extended realities. We integrate data to develop machine learning algorithms based on laboratory, wearable, and ambient data sources, e.g. for patient data interpretation and health knowledge extraction. Our algorithm bandwidth stretches from time series analysis to dynamic, adaptive pattern modelling, combining data models with expert models, as well as model personalisation. In addition, we develop embedded ML algorithms for very-low resource sensor devices. Furthermore we investigate novel modelling and simulation methods for in-silico evaluation of wearable and implantable sensor and actuator systems. For validation studies, we prototype wearable and implantable systems using innovative functional materials and additive manufacturing methods as well as DiGA prototypes for mobile platforms.
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