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DIYbetes: a Mobile Platform for Empowering Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Authors:
Mário Zenha-Rela
Ana Matos
Lèlita Santos
Miguel Antunes
João Costa
Marta Oliveira

Keywords: mobile systems, cloud, dependability, diabetes, healthcare

Abstract:
Type 2 Diabetes is a growing pandemic that already affects 347 million people in the world, which means that one in every 20 people is affected by the disease. Since Diabetes is a disease with significant behavioral roots, managing it involves a shift in behavior. A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Medicine, Psychology and Information&Communication Technologies have gathered to build a mobile platform that addresses behavior change of patients by helping them avoid bad decisions and pushing them to have a healthier lifestyle. In this paper, we describe the technology behind the DIYbetes platform and how it is a paradigm of a networked solution and system intelligence that supports a demanding set of non-functional (quality) requirements such as availability, latency, throughput, modifiability, maintainability, testability and security.

Pages: 7 to 12

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: July 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9383

ISBN: 978-1-61208-422-0

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 19, 2015 to July 24, 2015