Taleb Tarik, Bottazzi Dario, Nasser Nidal
Nippon Electric Company Laboratories Europe, NEC Europe Ltd., 69115 Heidelberg, Germany.
IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2010 Mar;14(2):335-49. doi: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2042608.
The arousal of emotion might have consequences for physical health is a broadly acknowledged idea. Therapy for depression, prevention for heart pathologies, and rehabilitation treatments for drug addiction are just a few examples of application domains that may benefit from technologies capable of monitoring, detecting, representing, and disseminating information pertaining to patients' physical and psychological/emotional states. However, the design and development of healthcare applications of this kind is a rather challenging issue that requires to integrate sensor infrastructures, which are able to detect changes in patients' physiological and emotional states, and of sharing this information to interested caregivers, such as professional medical staff, relatives, and friends. This paper proposes the Pervasive Environment for AffeCtive Healthcare (PEACH) framework, a middleware level support for affective healthcare that incarnates these ideas and describes its effective functions in a drug addiction treatment application scenario.
情绪的激发可能会对身体健康产生影响，这是一个得到广泛认可的观点。抑郁症治疗、心脏疾病预防以及药物成瘾康复治疗等，只是一些可能受益于能够监测、检测、呈现和传播与患者身体及心理/情绪状态相关信息的技术的应用领域示例。然而，这类医疗保健应用的设计与开发是一个颇具挑战性的问题，需要整合能够检测患者生理和情绪状态变化的传感器基础设施，并将这些信息共享给感兴趣的护理人员，如专业医护人员、亲属和朋友。本文提出了情感医疗普及环境（PEACH）框架，这是一种针对情感医疗的中间件级支持，它体现了这些理念，并描述了其在药物成瘾治疗应用场景中的有效功能。
