1163 Mechanical Engineering

Wearable technology such as smartwatches has the potential to transform the management and control of infectious diseases. Smartwatches provide continuous data about an individual’s health (e.g., heart rate, sleep patterns, physical activity). This data can be exploited to determine when an individual has become infected with a communicable disease, allowing for treatment of the disease...

Decision making to satisfy the basic human needs of health, food, and education is complex. We present an overview of two illustrative studies using data to inform decision making in...