A Sense of Connection: Towards a Personal Wellness Management Ready Society

Abstract

The cost of healthcare accounts for considerable proportion of GDP in most of countries worldwide. This research intends to develop a cloud-enabled framework that facilitates both wellness data (PWD) collection and continuous management via social engagement. First, we first propose lifestyle sensing technologies to "sense" both humans and environment via interconnected sensor networks. Next, the employed sensing technology can "sense" the connection among people so that we utilize the connection status as an important clue to provide timely and attentive services to engage interactions via the power of social networks. More specifically, the goal of the framework is to help people manage daily wellness proactively and facilitate wellness management via human interactions.