Paper Info
Title
Development and preliminary evaluation of an Android based heart rate variability biofeedback system.
Abstract
The reduced Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is believed to be associated with several diseases such as congestive heart failure, diabetes and chronic kidney diseases (CKD). In these cases, HRV biofeedback may be a potential intervention method to increase HRV which in turn is beneficial to these patients. In this work, a real-time Android biofeedback application based on a Bluetooth enabled ECG and thoracic electrical bioimpedance (respiration) measurement device has been developed. The system performance and usability have been evaluated in a brief study with eight healthy volunteers. The result demonstrates real-time performance of system and positive effects of biofeedback training session by increased HRV and reduced heart rate. Further development of the application and training protocol is ongoing to investigate duration of training session to find an optimum length and interval of biofeedback sessions to use in potential interventions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944348
EMBC
Keywords
Field
DocType
electrocardiography,reduced heart rate,diabetes,congestive heart failure,bioelectric potentials,diseases,biomedical measurement,hrv,biomedical communication,medical signal processing,bluetooth enabled ecg,bluetooth,thoracic electrical bioimpedance measurement device,biofeedback training session,training protocol,medical computing,real-time android biofeedback application,android based heart rate variability biofeedback system,android (operating system),chronic kidney diseases,ckd
Heart failure,Chronic Kidney Diseases,Android (operating system),Heart rate variability,Physical therapy,Usability,Heart rate,Biofeedback,Medicine,Biofeedback training
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2014
1557-170X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Farhad Abtahi173.11
A Berndtsson210.38
Shirin Abtahi320.74
Fernando Seoane43310.13
Kaj Lindecrantz5369.52