ESCOBAR LINERO , Elena

Physical fatigue is not only an indication of the user's physical condition and/or need for sleep or rest, but can also be a significant symptom of various diseases. This fatigue affects the performance of workers in jobs that involve some continuous physical activity, and is the cause of a large proportion of accidents at work. The physical...

Applied to health field, Internet of Things (IoT) systems provides continuous and ubiquitous monitoring and assistance, allowing the creation of valuable tools for diag nosis, health empowerment, and personalized treatment, among others. Advances in these systems follow different approaches, such as the integration of new protocols and...

Physical fatigue is not only an indication of the user's physical condition and/or need for sleep or rest, but can also be a significant symptom of various diseases. This fatigue affects the performance of workers in jobs that involve some continuous physical activity, and is the cause of a large proportion of accidents at work. The physical...

The use of wearable devices has increased substantially in recent years. This, together with the rise of telemedicine, has led to the use of these types of devices in the healthcare field. In this work, we carried out a detailed study on the use of these devices (regarding the general trends); we analyzed the research works and devices marketed...

Falls are current events that can lead to severe injuries and even accidental deaths among the population, especially the elderly. Since them usually live alone and their contact with other people has decreased since pandemic, recent years studies have focused on automatic fall detection systems with wearable devices using machine learning...

Falls are current events that can lead to severe injuries and even accidental deaths among the population, especially the elderly. Since them usually live alone and their contact with other people has decreased since pandemic, recent years studies have focused on automatic fall detection systems with wearable devices using machine learning...

Monkeypox is a smallpox-like disease that was declared a global health emergency in July 2022. Because of this resemblance, it is not easy to distinguish a monkeypox rash from other similar diseases; however, due to the novelty of this disease, there are no widely used databases for this purpose with which to develop image-based classification...

Nowadays, the study of the gait by analyzing the distribution of plantar pressure is a well-established technique. The use of intelligent insoles allows real-time monitoring of the user. Thus, collecting and analyzing information is a more accurate process than consultations in so-called gait laboratories. Most of the previous published studies...

The emotional or affective state has a direct impact not only on personal life, but also in the field of work, sports, rehabilitation processes, among other fields. In the evolving understanding of emotional theory, it has been theorized that an emotion can be classified according to a two-dimensional model composed of an Arousal value and a...

El mundo del deporte ha sufrido un gran cambio, llevando al extremo las exigencias físicas de los deportistas. Uno de los aspectos más importantes en deportes de velocidad es la respuesta de reacción del deportista ante un determinado estímulo. Esta respuesta se compone del tiempo de reacción (desde la aparición del estímulo al inicio del...

Intimate partner violence against women (IPVW) is a pressing social issue which poses a challenge in terms of prevention, legal action, and reporting the abuse once it has occurred. However, a significant number of female victims who file a complaint against their abuser and initiate legal proceedings, subsequently, withdraw charges for...

Las TIC han avanzado sirviendo de apoyo a diferentes servicios, sin ser la salud una excepción. La telemedicina soluciona problemas como la demanda de atención médica o la asistencia. La telemonitorización destaca por su comodidad para controlar el estado del paciente a distancia; sin embargo, estos sistemas son costosos e implican portar un...

Existen diversos trastornos asociados a la menstruación que provocan anomalías en el ciclo, como el síndrome de ovario poliquístico, endometriosis, hiperprolactinemia o alteraciones en la glándula tiroidea. Todos ellos provocan un sangrado uterino anormal (SUA), cuyos síntomas incluye un sangrado abundante, denominado menorragia. La medición...