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Wellness and Healthcare

This team identifies, creates and validates mobile-centric sport, wellness and healthcare concepts and solutions that provide real added value for the end user, and that enable new business opportunities for Nokia. The team also seeks to guarantee the interoperability of Nokia solutions with wellness devices, healthcare systems and other standards.

Research topics

  • Mobile-centric end-to-end (E2E) concepts and services for sport, wellness, and healthcare
  • Requirements and user acceptance mobile-centric solutions
  • Evidence of effectiveness of the ICT solutions in health promotion and healthcare processes
  • Value chains and business models
  • Interoperability of the systems, open interfaces, and standards
  • Data models and ontologies
  • Body area technologies, ultra low power embedded systems, sensors, and signal processing

Resources

Nokia Sports Tracker

This is a GPS-based activity tracker that runs on Nokia smartphones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored in your training diary

Sports Tracker Beta

Wellness Diary

Take an active role in the daily and/or long-term management of your health. With Wellness Diary, you can monitor and track a range of everyday well-being parameters, including weight, eating habits, exercise, blood pressure, and others.

Beta Labs - Wellness Diary

Nokia Step Counter

This application not only counts your steps, it also determines the distance you have covered and your energy expenditure. You can even compare your activity levels on different days by looking up the summaries stored in a handy diary.

Beta Labs - Nokia Step Counter

Nokia Wrist-Attached Sensor Platform

NWSP (pronounced as [enwisp]) stands for Nokia Wrist-Attached Sensor Platform. It is an open source research platform for wellness or other applications.

Open Source - Nokia Wrist-Attached Sensor Platform

Publications

Yang, Yaojin, 'The Design and Implementation of a Web Mobile-based Behavior Change Application System'. Information Technology and Applications in BioMedicine 2008 conference in Shenzhen, China.

Mattila, Elina; Koskelo, Jukka; Lappalainen, Raimo; Salminen, Jukka H.; Nyman, Petri; Lähteenmäki, Jaakko; Leino, Timo and Korhonen, Ilkka, 'A Concept for ICT Assisted Health Promotion in the Occupational Healthcare', EMBC'07 conference.

Ahola, Tom Mikael; Korpinen, Pekka; Rakkola, Juha; Ramo, Teemu; Salminen, Jukka and Savolainen, Jari, 'Wearable FPGA Based Wireless Sensor Platform'. EMBC'07 conference.

Koskinen, Esa and Salminen, Jukka, 'A Customizable Mobile Tool for Supporting Health Behavior Interventions'. EMBC'07 conference.

Yang, Yaojin; Ahtinen, Aino; Lähteenmäki, Jaakko; Nyman, Petri; Paajanen, Henrik; Peltoniemi, Teijo and Quiroz, Carlos 'A Service Platform Architecture Design towards Pervasive System Integration'. EMBC'07 conference.

Tam, Francis, 'Comparing Robustness of AIS-Based Middleware Implementations'.The 4th International Service Availability Symposium 2007, New Hampshire, USA.

Yang, Yaojing, 'Application System - an Industrial Experience Report'. The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2007.

Tam, Francis, 'On Engineering Standards Based Carrier Grade Platforms'. The Second International Workshop on Engineering Fault Tolerant Systems 2007, Croatia.

Collaborators

Links

How Nokia Users Drive Innovation (Article in Business Week on Sports Tracker)

Contact

Jukka Salminen, Team Leader

Members of the team

Tom Ahola | Ykä Huhtala | Jussi Kaasinen | Ole Kirkeby | Esa Koskinen | Francis Tam | Daidi Zhong

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