Sensor Technologies: Healthcare, Wellness and Environmental Applications

CHAPTER 7

The Data Economy of Biosensors

Dawn Nafus, Senior Researcher, Intel Labs

Biosensing does not take place in a void. It always has a social context of some kind, and that context has profound implications for the types of things that biosensors can and cannot do. The social context is, however, not as obvious as it might at first seem. There are some design considerations that must be tied to specific situations. For example, what one might build to enable professionals to care for an older person with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is very different from the monitor that tracks an athlete’s activity levels or what a citizen ...