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2015 The Shape of Health A Comparison of Five Alternative Ways of Visualizing Personal Health and Wellbeing
2015 The Shape of Health A Comparison of Five Alternative Ways of Visualizing Personal Health and Wellbeing
Pavel,"Theshapeofhealth:Acomparisonof
fivealternativewaysofvisualizingpersonalhealthandwellbeing,"201537thAnnualInternationalConference
oftheIEEEEngineeringinMedicineandBiologySociety(EMBC),Milan,2015,pp.76387641.
doi:10.1109/EMBC.2015.7320161
Abstract:Thecombinationofclinicalandpersonalhealthandwellbeingdatacantellusmuchaboutour
behaviors,risksandoverallstatus.Thewaythisdataisvisualizedmayaffectourunderstandingofourown
health.Tostudythiseffect,weconductedasmallexperimentwith30participantsinwhichwepresenteda
holisticoverviewofthehealthandwellbeingoftwomodeledindividuals,oneofthemwithmetabolic
syndrome.Weusedaninsightbasedmethodologytoassesstheeffectivenessofthevisualizations.Theresults
showthatadequatevisualizationofholistichealthdatahelpsuserswithoutmedicalbackgroundtobetter
understandtheoverallhealthsituationandpossiblehealthrisksrelatedtolifestyles.Furthermore,wefoundthat
theapplicationofinsightbasedmethodologyinthehealthandwellbeingdomainremainsunexploredand
additionalresearchandmethodologydevelopmentareneeded.
keywords:{bloodpressuremeasurementdiseasesmedicaldisordersclinicaldatahealthriskshealth
shapeholistichealthdatainsightbasedmethodologymedicalbackgroundmetabolicsyndromemethodology
developmentpersonalhealthdatawellbeingdomainAtmosphericmeasurementsBloodpressureData
visualizationDiabetesParticlemeasurementsVisualization},
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