Skip to 0 minutes and 6 seconds Hello！ I’m Dr. Shabbir Syed-Abdul, an assistant professor in Graduate of Biomedical Infomatics Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. We are back again with a new course on Internet of things for active aging. Why you need this course? To explore the challenges and opportunities of using wearable devices for elderly care. Who can enroll? Anyone from undergraduate to Post Doc interested in using technology for active aging. What you can expect from this course? Better understanding of the practical problem in the aging population and how best wearable devices can be used to help and promote active aging. We form a team of international experts from US, Middle East and Taiwan.
Skip to 1 minute and 7 seconds Basically this course explores the problems of learning and then we discuss the opportunities and challenges of using smart wearable devices for active aging. We will introduce the problems while aging such as cognitive impairment, Issues related with balance and fall, Motor disability, how to cope with sleeping disorder and so on. we will be discussing the real benefits of wearable devices that we found from literature. We also want to highlight the role of smart wearable devices in diabetic and cancer patients. I hope and wish you will enroll in this course and take the best advantage of learning from our international experts. Thank you for viewing this video. Hope to see you in the course.
