What is it about?
The quantified-self is a key enabler for mHealth. We propose that a wellbeing remote monitoring scenario can act as a suitable proxy for mHealth monitoring by the use of an online social network (OSN). We justify our position by discussing the parallelism in the scenario between purpose-driven wellbeing and mHealth scenarios. The similarity between these two scenarios in terms of privacy and data sharing is discussed.
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Why is it important?
By using such a proxy, some of the legal and ethical complexity can be removed from experimentation on new technologies and systems for mHealth. This enables technology researchers to carry out investigation and focus on testing new technologies, system interactions as well as security and privacy in healthcare in pre-clinical experiments, without loss of context.
Perspectives
We have presented arguments that the sharing behaviour in both mHealth monitoring and purpose-oriented wellbeing monitoring is similar, i.e. if the context of data sharing is appropriate to the shared environment, then the trust relationships that exist are similar. We believe that the use of wellbeing monitoring as a proxy experiment for mHealth monitoring would make trials in the early research stages more possible and facilitate research in this area for advancing future mHealth systems.
Prof Saleem N Bhatti
University of St Andrews
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This page is a summary of: Wellbeing as a proxy for a mHealth study, November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
DOI: 10.1109/bibm.2014.6999286.
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