Grant: Strategic Projects - Group

Human wellbeing is based on two pillars: body and mind and the coordination between them. If one, and/or thecoordination between the two, suffers a deficit or a weakness, then both the physical and mental health will becompromised. Biofeedback technology promotes the ability of an individual to enhance the body-mindsynchronization by raising the awareness about the body state and generating responses that trigger effectiveconscious control over the physiological functions. In this research, our goal is to enable individuals monitor inreal-time their physiological functions and provide the proper response that teaches the individuals how tocontrol these functions. Biofeedback sensors are attached to the human body and continuously capture variousphysiological parameters (such as ECG, EEG, body temperature, muscles activities, etc.). The captured data istransmitted to a processing unit and processed to determine an appropriate response that should be displayed tothe individual to enhance her awareness of the body performance and train her on how to control thesefunctions to optimize the body-mind synchronization. Furthermore, the huge volume of captured data isessentially a valuable raw data for various statistical results that general health care research can benefit from.Finally, if the captured information is transmitted in real-time to health care stakeholders (such as clinics,hospitals, therapists, etc.), it provides a real-time monitoring of the people's health and enables buildingassistive and advisory applications to help people improve their living.