Democratization of health care through self-monitoring technologies

Abstract

The burden on our health care systems is ever increasing with people living longer and requiring more support. Technologies can help ease the strain. One important aspect in health management is prevention enabled by self-monitoring and, eventually, self-understanding one's lifestyle through building supportive, interactive and engaging systems. This paper outlines a system aimed at empowering users with a better understanding of how their lifestyles can impact their wellbeing by using a context-based story-telling approach. While this work is still in its early phases, we believe that a lot of promise is shown through the current development status as well as our system design. Our initial findings show that available user data generated through our daily activities can reveal a wealth of information related to our lifestyles and provide support in implementing changes.