2 research outputs found
An Automated Method to Detect Tooth Brushing Activity with Smartwatch Sensors
Nearly half (46%) of all adults aged 30 years or older show signs of gum disease; severe gum disease affects about 9% of adults.
Brushing your teeth is an incredibly important part of taking care of your oral health and daily hygiene. Dentists recommend that you should brush your teeth twice a day for periods of at least two minutes to achieve adequate results and promote oral health.
Currently, there are very limited solutions available to help people easily and efficiently track their tooth brushing activity
SpiroMask: Measuring Lung Function Using Consumer-Grade Masks
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 235 million people suffer
from respiratory illnesses and four million people die annually due to air
pollution. Regular lung health monitoring can lead to prognoses about
deteriorating lung health conditions. This paper presents our system SpiroMask
that retrofits a microphone in consumer-grade masks (N95 and cloth masks) for
continuous lung health monitoring. We evaluate our approach on 48 participants
(including 14 with lung health issues) and find that we can estimate parameters
such as lung volume and respiration rate within the approved error range by the
American Thoracic Society (ATS). Further, we show that our approach is robust
to sensor placement inside the mask.Comment: Accepted in the ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH