This year's workshop 'Automated Dietary Monitoring – The grand challenge from lab to real-life solutions' was held in conjunction with BSN 2018 and attracted substantial interest. Continue

Oliver Amft gave a talk at the MIRACUM project Kick-off Symposium which took place from 22. - 23. February 2018 in Erlangen, Germany. Title: Ambient and Wearable Computing in Digital Health - A new Chair at FAU Presentation slides: See MIRACUM page. Continue

Medizintechnologie.de published an article "Kleine Helfer – große Wirkung" on wearable technology for healthcare summarising trends on integrating wearables into medical treatment. An interview with Prof. Oliver Amft is cited and the chair's projects around smart eyeglasses for dietary monitoring are described. Continue

Oliver Amft gave a talk at the Rheumadocs Fellow Meeting 2018 titled "mHealth und eHealth in der Rheumatologie der Zukunft". The meeting was organised by the Rheumadocs e.V. in Nürnberg on Jan 12-14, 2018. Continue

Wirtschaftszeitung reports in its Jan 2018 issue on mHealth developments and future perspectives, citing Prof. Oliver Amft on personalised medical wearables. Continue

3D-print personal fitted, regular-look smart eyeglasses frames equipped with bilateral Electromyography (EMG) recording were used to monitor Temporalis muscles’ activity for automatic dietary monitoring. Continue

Swallowing appears more accessible than chewing since it involves the neck (pharyngeal) region, rather than the head. Our early investigations were focused on EMG and strain sensing collars. EMG sensors at submental and hyoid positions showed sufficient signal quality for detection of swallows due t... Continue

Chewing is a core component of the intake process and micro-structure. Our early work focused on wearable/implant devices worn at/in the ear canal to capture food breakdown sounds conducted from mandible to skull. We found that the sounds are characteristic for certain foods and food types due to th... Continue

The characteristic movement patterns during intake were first discussed in our 2005 paper on detection of eating and drinking gestures. The approach in most follow-up work has been to measure movements using inertial sensors attached to the wrist. Our work focused on developing spotting methods to i... Continue