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WaistonBelt: a belt for monitoring your real abdominal circumference forever

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Keiichi YasumotoAuthors Info & Claims

UbiComp/ISWC'15 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Pages 329 - 331

https://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2800869

Published: 07 September 2015 Publication History

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Abstract

Metabolic syndrome becomes a serious problem in our life, because it is one of the reasons of arteriosclerosis, heart disease or stroke. In order to prevent a person from becoming a metabolic syndrome, it is important to know own current actual abdominal circumference, and care by yourself. However, any wearable devices cannot measure abdominal circumference.

In this paper, we propose and implement a belt-type wearable device, called "WaistonBelt", and a smartphone application that can keep monitoring an abdominal circumference forever. "WaistonBelt" can measure an abdominal circumference with ordinary action, and can visualize a transition of it. Through an experimental evaluation, we confirm that our system can measure an abdominal circumference with 0.66% error.

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Katzmarzyk, P. T., Janssen, I., Ross, R., Church, T. S., and Blair, S. N. The importance of waist circumference in the definition of metabolic syndrome prospective analyses of mortality in men. Diabetes Care (February 2006), 404--409.

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Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. National health and nutrition survey (2012). http://www.mhlw.go.jp/bunya/kenkou/kenkou_eiyou_chousa.html.

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Nakamura YMatsuda YArakawa YYasumoto K(2019)WaistonBelt X: A Belt-Type Wearable Device with Sensing and Intervention Toward Health Behavior ChangeSensors10.3390/s1920460019:20(4600)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2019
https://doi.org/10.3390/s19204600
Nakamura YArakawa YYasumoto KLukowicz PKrüger ABulling ALim YPatel S(2016)Smart experimental platform for collecting various sensing data from various thingsProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct10.1145/2968219.2968268(1751-1754)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2968219.2968268
Matsuda YHasegaway TArai IArakawa YYasumoto K(2016)Waistonbelt 2: a belt-type wearable device for monitoring abdominal circumference, posture and activity2016 Ninth International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU)10.1109/ICMU.2016.7742089(1-6)Online publication date: Oct-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMU.2016.7742089

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WaistonBelt: a belt for monitoring your real abdominal circumference forever
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
      1. Microcomputers

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September 2015

1626 pages

ISBN:9781450335751

DOI:10.1145/2800835

General Chairs:
Kenji Mase
Nagoya University, JP
,
Marc Langheinrich
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), CH
,
Daniel Gatica-Perez
IDIAP-EPFL, CH
,
Program Chairs:
Hans Gellersen
Lancaster University, UK
,
Tanzeem Choudhury
Cornell University
,
Koji Yatani
Univerisity of Tokyo, JP

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September 7 - 11, 2015

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Nakamura YMatsuda YArakawa YYasumoto K(2019)WaistonBelt X: A Belt-Type Wearable Device with Sensing and Intervention Toward Health Behavior ChangeSensors10.3390/s1920460019:20(4600)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2019
https://doi.org/10.3390/s19204600
Nakamura YArakawa YYasumoto KLukowicz PKrüger ABulling ALim YPatel S(2016)Smart experimental platform for collecting various sensing data from various thingsProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct10.1145/2968219.2968268(1751-1754)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2968219.2968268
Matsuda YHasegaway TArai IArakawa YYasumoto K(2016)Waistonbelt 2: a belt-type wearable device for monitoring abdominal circumference, posture and activity2016 Ninth International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU)10.1109/ICMU.2016.7742089(1-6)Online publication date: Oct-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMU.2016.7742089

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