COSC7388: Advanced Distributed Computing: Mobile Computing in Smart Health and Well Beings

Instructors:	Rong Zheng
Email:	rzheng (at) cs.uh.edu
Lectures	Monday 4 - 7pm in SW 221
Office Hours:	Tue 2:30pm - 6:00pm
Facebook page:	http://www.facebook.com/Cosc7388

Prerequisites: Object-oriented programming (C++, Java)

Synopsis:

Delivering high quality, economically efficient healthcare is rapidly becoming one of the key economic, societal and scientific challenges in the United States as well as globally. Despite escalating costs, the Nation's healthcare system is underperforming, based on indicators such as infant mortality, life expectancy and life-long healthcare costs per capita. On the other hand, smart phones and wireless data access are now prevalent, allowing continuous extractions of personal data with the many on-board sensors as well as anywhere, anytime delivery and access of information. Smart phone technologies have the potential to play a key role in preventive healthcare and improving wellbeing of the aging society. This course covers topics on mobile computing and smart health with focus the synergy between the two. It will consist of three components:

1. Lectures on the essentials of mobile computing and smart phone programming
2. Guest lectures by domain experts in healthcare delivery, sensor technology, and medical devices
3. Survey and student presentation
4. Semester long projects on utilizing mobile technology to address health issues. Students will form groups to carry the projects with access to both hardware and software resources including:
   • Windows 7 and Android phones
   • Development SDK, to develop WP7 based cloud-enabled mobile applications
   • TI EZ430-Chronos (pending approval)

List of guest speakers (tentative)

• Cliff Dacso (MD, MPH, MBA) (Healthcare delivery systems, medically underserved communities, global health, non-invasive monitoring, physiological measurements)
• Luca Pollonini (Ph.D.) (Design and development of biomedical equipment; Optoelectronics)
• David Nghiem (Ph.D.) (Founder and CEO of Global Wireless Technology, Inc.)

Grading

The course would consist of lectures, presentation (20pt), a survey report (20pt) and a semester long project (60pt).

Tentative schedule:

Date	Topic	Lecturer
08/27	Introduction	Rong Zheng
09/03	Labor day holiday
09/10	Windows Mobile 7 programming (slides,code)	huy Nguyen
09/17	Presentation from Mobisoft Infotech
09/24	Home monitoring and care for cardiovascular diseases	Cliff Dacso
10/01	Sensor design for medical devices (slides)	Luca Pollonini
10/08	Wireless standards related to medical applications (slides)	Rong Zheng
10/15	Survey presentation and project proposal	Students
10/22	Android Programming (slides,demo code)	Khuong Vu
10/29	Location, Location, Location (Part 1) (slides)	Rong Zheng
11/05	Location, Location, Location (Part 2)	Rong Zheng
11/12	Midterm Project Report
11/19	Social networking in healthcare (slides)	Rong Zheng
11/26	Resource-efficient activity recognition and monitoring (slides)	Rong Zheng
12/10	Final project presentation	Students

Projects:

• Oxigenation data display on tablet devices (Mohammed Alshair, Martin Le)
• A portable system for assisted speech therapy (Giulia Toti, Cody Chen Xi)
• Measurement of Systolic Time Interval through SmartPhone Game (Rohit Nirmal, Nick Tzu Hua Liu)
• Co-existence of multiple WBANs (Guanbo Zheng, Thanh Le)

Resources:

• Get started with Mobile 7 and Azure
• Click here to access ACM Digital Library (on campus/VPN)
• Click here to access IEEE Xplore (on campus/VPN)