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Integrated system for pressure ulcers monitoring and prevention
Fonseca, Luís Filipe Rodrigues; Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo; Metrôlho, J.C.M.M.; Fidalgo, Filipe; Dionísio, Rogério Pais; Silva, Arlindo F.Pressure ulcers are a critical issue for patients and healthcare professionals, requiring their frequent monitoring, with a consequent impact on healthcare costs. This problem has been gaining attention and approaches have been proposed, using sensor-based systems, to facilitate this monitoring and help health caregivers to achieve greater effectiveness in the treatment of this type of ulcer. In this paper, the...
PoPu-Data: a multilayered, simultaneously collected lying position dataset
Fonseca, Luís Filipe Rodrigues; Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo; Metrôlho, J.C.M.M.; Santos, Adriana; Dionísio, Rogério Pais; Amini, MohammadThis study presents a dataset containing three layers of data that are useful for body position classification and all uses related to it. The PoPu dataset contains simultaneously collected data from two different sensor sheets—one placed over and one placed under a mattress; furthermore, a segmentation data layer was added where different body parts are identified using the pressure data from the sensors over ...
Innovation and knowledge transfer for monitoring, predicting and preventing ulc...
Silva, Arlindo F.; Santos, Osvaldo; Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo; Fidalgo, Filipe; Metrôlho, J.C.M.M.; Amini, Mohammad; Fonseca, Luís Filipe RodriguesPressure ulcers are skin injuries that develop mainly over bony areas as the result of prolonged pressure caused by the immo- bility of bedridden patients. They constitute not only a source of additional suffering for these patients but also contribute to the burnout of healthcare professionals who must maintain continuous monitoring of these patients. Data from countries such as the UK or the USA allows the co...
Review of intelligent sensor-based systems for pressure ulcer prevention.
Silva, Arlindo F.; Metrôlho, J.C.M.M.; Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo; Fidalgo, Filipe; Santos, Osvaldo; Dionísio, Rogério PaisPressure ulcers are a critical issue not only for patients, decreasing their quality of life, but also for healthcare professionals, contributing to burnout from continuous monitoring, with a consequent increase in healthcare costs. Due to the relevance of this problem, many hardware and software approaches have been proposed to ameliorate some aspects of pressure ulcer prevention and monitoring. In this articl...
Literature review of location-based mobile games in education: challenges, impa...
Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo; Silva, Arlindo F.; Silva, Ana Paula; Metrôlho, J.C.M.M.With the universal use of mobile computing devices, there has been a notable increasein the number of mobile applications developed for educational purposes. Gamification strategiesoffer a new set of tools to educators and, combined with the location services provided by thosedevices, allow the creation of innovative location-based mobile learning experiences. In this literaturereview, we conduct an analysis of...
Literature review of machine-learning algorithms for pressure ulcer prevention:...
Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo; Fidalgo, Filipe; Silva, Arlindo F.; Metrôlho, J.C.M.M.; Santos, Osvaldo; Dionísio, RogérioPressure ulcers are associated with significant morbidity, resulting in a decreased quality of life for the patient, and contributing to healthcare professional burnout, as well as an increase of health service costs. Their prompt diagnosis and treatment are important, and several studies have proposed solutions to help healthcare professionals in this process. This work analyzes studies that use machine-learni...
Mobile applications for pandemic monitoring: approaches, challenges and opportu...
Alves, Bernardo; Afonso, Vera; Silva, Ana Paula; Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo; Silva, Arlindo F.In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, mobile applications have been widely used and promoted to help prevent the spread of the pandemic. Many countries have proposed these applications with the aim of improving contact tracing and thus helping “flatten the curve” of infection case numbers. However, even though there were many campaigns to promote the use of these apps, their adoption was relatively low, whic...
A new framework for accessible tourism mobile application development
Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo; Silva, Arlindo F.; Metrôlho, J.C.M.M.; Silva, Ana Paula; Barbosa, Fernando SérgioRecent years have seen an increasing realization of the importance and potential of accessible tourism. To support it, the ICT industries have provided many different applications, especially for mobile computing frameworks. An analysis of these applications allows us to identify some issues that are not yet fully addressed. These include the absence of collaborative features; the lack of involvement of all sta...
Mobile applications for accessible tourism: overview, challenges and a proposed...
Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo; Silva, Arlindo F.; Barbosa, Fernando Sérgio; Silva, Ana Paula; Metrôlho, J.C.M.M.In the Travel & Tourism sector, mobile applications could do much more than simply provide information about specific locations or recommend places and itineraries based on the user location. They could leverage a wide range of technologies to be aware of the interests and specific needs of disabled tourists, providing them with appropriate and tailored information. This information should be presented using ap...
Learn as a team to work in a team
Metrôlho, J.C.M.M.; Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo; Silva, Ana Paula; Silva, Arlindo F.; Barbosa, Fernando SérgioExiste atualmente em Portugal uma forte procura de profissionais na área das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação. Esta procura exige que as Instituições de Ensino Superior preparem os seus diplomados adequadamente, não só tecnicamente, mas também ao nível de competências que são vulgarmente designadas por soft skills. Este artigo pretende descrever uma estratégia recentemente implementada, e ainda a decorre...