14 Monitoring Health and Wellness Indicators for Aging in Place

Kevin Bing-Yung Wong, Tongda Zhang and Hamid Aghajan

The field of personal informatics has become progressively mainstream recently with the rise of groups such as Quantified Self and the introduction of commercially available user-friendly fitness trackers and visualization software. The users of personal informatics technologies monitor aspects of their daily lives and habits for the purpose of self-reflection. For example, by recording workout habits, sleep patterns, and medicine intake, a person can generate concrete health-related statistics that can drive personal change toward healthier habits. We propose a solution that seeks to offer the same type of self-reflective statistics ...

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