Multimodal and personalised methods for health and wellness monitoring

Research Partners

Schindler Group Schindler

Sources of Funding

Hasler MyPreHealth


The accelerated growth of ultra-low-power sensor electronics, low-power circuits and wireless communications, coupled with their integration on emerging systems on chip (SoC) for multimodal monitoring, has led to a new generation of evolving wearable devices and systems. Nowadays, wearable devices are mainly used to measure daily human activities and sports performance, i.e., heart rate, steps, distance, sleep pattern, etc. However, they continue evolving towards health and wellness monitoring, enabling preventive and personalised healthcare.

At the ESL we are focused on designing wearable systems and methods that provide meaningful accuracy, robustness, and little obtrusiveness while delivering data quality and integrity with low energy consumption and memory footprints. Mainly, we develop personalized algorithms (i.e., person-specify), multimodal (i.e., using multiple information sources) and context-aware methods to accurately monitor the targeted outcomes in uncontrolled environments and dealing with the variety of situations imposed by daily monitoring.



Related Publications

CAFS: Cost-Aware Features Selection Method for Multimodal Stress Monitoring on Wearable Devices
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2020-02-21Conference Paper
Robust Epileptic Seizure Detection on Wearable Systems with Reduced False-Alarm Rate
Zanetti, Renato; Aminifar, Amir; Atienza Alonso, David
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Real-Time Personalized Atrial Fibrillation Prediction on Multi-Core Wearable Sensors
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2020IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in ComputingPublication funded by Hasler MyPreHealth (Predicting Episodic Disorders with Health Companions)Publication funded by SNF ML-edge (ML-edge: Enabling Machine-Learning-Based Health Monitoring in Edge Sensors via Architectural Customization)
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2019-01-012019 41St Annual International Conference Of The Ieee Engineering In Medicine And Biology Society (Embc)
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Sopic, Dionisije; Aminifar, Amin; Aminifar, Amir; Atienza Alonso, David
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