Smartphone Monitoring of Stress and Drug Abuse
May 1, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
Emergency medicine physicians at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester) have built a wrist band device that detects stress, based on the electrical activity of skin, body motion, skin temperature, and heart rate, for patients trying to resist drug cravings. The wrist band sends its data to a smartphone which then queries the patient and sends a behavioral intervention. MORE