Motor Activity Sensorics for mHealth Support of Human Resilience in Daily Life

Abstract

The quality of life depends on the human resilience to stresses and other negative impacts from the environment and society. We assume that the human resilience can be effectively supported by motor activity. The problem is that people reduce the motor activity (the human mobility) although they are potentially able to move (the human motility). In this paper, we consider human motor activity sensorics and study the concept of mobile Health (mHealth) system to digitally support the mobility of a person during her/his daily life. The sensorics is based on inertial sensors of a smartphone that accompanies the person. The smartphone evaluates various motor tests for the human activity. The collected statistics provide an interesting picture to motivate the person to more activity. We introduce the concept model that interrelates human resilience and motor activity. We discuss possible digital support of human resilience based on testing the human activity. In sum, this study contributes our concept of smartphone-based mHealth system that digitally supports the motor activity of a person in daily life subject to increase the human resilience.

Keywords

• ambient intelligence (ami)
• mhealth
• human sensorics
• human resilience
• human frailty
• human vitality
• human motor activity
• digital support in everyday life