The wave of digital health is continuously growing and promises to transform the experience of patients, redefining their role as empowered actors of the healthcare processes rather than passive receivers of medical help. Chronic diseases are in the center of these developments as they require the continuous and active involvement of not only healthcare professionals …
Please find here the first annual newsletter of the MyAirCoach project. MyAirCoach newsletter will serve as a fully accessible communication tool for the dissemination of important project news and the description of future steps. The first issue focuses on the ongoing project activities and particularly on the strategy of the consortium for the involvement of …
The Asthma Health project has been released alongside Apple’s ResearchKit and aims at the creation of an innovative mobile phone application designed to facilitate asthma patient education and self-monitoring. In a recent development the Asthma Health project has been announced to expand in the United Kingdom and Ireland, taking an important step towards the promotion …
Published by European Commission on Thursday, 12/02/2015 European researchers have been awarded over €4.5 Million to create a user-friendly tool for asthmatic patients to monitor and self-control their disease. The name of the project, myAirCoach, stands for analysis, modelling and sensing of both physiological and environmental factors for the customized and predictive self-management of Asthma, …
Standardization is a crucial component of the MyAirCoah solution as it promises the fast and efficient integration of our solution with the global healthcare environment. In a recent article IEEE has focused on the standardization of eHealth technologies and identified that there has been a surge in IEEE standards activities in the health-care field. A …
The world asthma congress has taken place this year in Madrid Spain. The MyAirCoach consortium has been represented in the congress with the participation of Professors O. Usmani and F. Chung. The continuous presence and increasing impact of the World Asthma Congress, underlines the importance of effective asthma management and reveals the importance of MyAirCoach …
Brussels, 5 May 2015 / WORLD ASTHMA DAY – Despite the wide availability of asthma therapies, many people with asthma still experience lots of symptoms impacting significantly on their quality of life. In line with this year’s World Asthma Day theme “You can control your asthma”, myAirCoach, a leading pan-European project is recruiting patients to …
By Laura Bond, member of the Advisory Patient Forum for the MyAirCoach Project I am an asthma patient, or more accurately, an asthma sufferer really fed up of going to the doctors or the hospital because of my asthma. I’d much rather be on holiday, seeing friends and family; even just not worrying about whether …
Submission Procedure Authors are invited to submit a 2-4 page position paper formatted according to the ACM extended abstract format 2016 (Link). Papers will be selected on the basis of their originality and quality. Accepted workshop papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library as part of the MobileHCI 2016 Adjunct Proceedings. Papers should …
Organizing Committee Dr. Stefano Valtolina [Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy] Dr. José Abdelnour-Nocera [University of West London, United Kingdom] [Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal] Dr. Konstantinos Votis [Information Technologies Institute, Greece] Dr. Barbara Rita Barricelli [Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy] Dr. Konstantinos Moustakas [University of Patras, Greece] Dr Jacob …