The articles in this special section focus on personalized pervasive health. For over more than two decades, mobile, wearable, and ambient sensor and interaction devices have grown into today’s plethora of computing platforms and tools for pervasive health. Pervasive computing is now assimilating into medicine, from disease risk prevention to diagnostics, and from treatment support to chronic-care management. Unlike more traditional medical lab technology, pervasive computing systems can be continuously available, using unobtrusive sensors, actuators, computing, and interactive interfaces to liberalize access to information on basic body functions and processes in everyday life, e.g., physical activity and vital signs. Pervasive computing platforms now natively provide practitioners and researchers with a set of functionalities that allow for the development of applications and systems that are able to make sense of complex situations, e.g., daily routines, mood, and the user’s physiology. With this potential at hand, pervasive computing systems will play a central role as enabling technology for healthcare.

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个性化普遍健康

此特殊部分中的文章侧重于个性化的普遍健康。二十多年来，移动、可穿戴和环境传感器和交互设备已经发展成为当今用于普遍健康的大量计算平台和工具。普适计算现在正在融入医学，从疾病风险预防到诊断，从治疗支持到慢性病护理管理。与更传统的医学实验室技术不同，普适计算系统可以持续可用，使用不显眼的传感器、执行器、计算和交互界面来开放对日常生活中基本身体功能和过程信息的访问，例如身体活动和生命体征。普适计算平台现在原生地为从业者和研究人员提供了一组功能，这些功能允许开发能够理解复杂情况的应用程序和系统，例如日常生活、情绪和用户的生理机能。有了这一潜力，普适计算系统将在推动医疗保健技术方面发挥核心作用。