A Concept Model of mHealth Sensorics for Digital Assistance of Human Cognitive Resilience

Abstract

The Quality of Life (QoL), especially of frail and older people, depends on the ability of a person to tolerate stresses and its negative consequences. The toleration is related to the human resilience, reflecting the three basic human functions: cognitive (the thinking process), motor (the movement activity), and autonomous (the internal body processes). The cognitive resilience is acknowledged as one of the main components of human resilience. The cognitive resilience is tightly coupled with the motor resilience. Various motor-cognitive tests are known to assess the reactivity in a custom way and with specialized medical equipment. In this paper, we introduce our concept model of the mobile Health (mHealth) sensorics for digital assistance of the human resilience during person’s daily activity. In reactivity testing, a smartphone becomes a core element, replacing specialized medical equipment and transforming to a daily automatic instrument of human motor-cognitive sensorics. The collected measurements provide the base to monitor person’s mental condition.

Keywords

• mhealth
• human sensorics
• mobile application
• cognitive resilience
• digital assistance