FERNÁNDEZ LUQUE , Luis

Videos are the most common, direct and easy way to transmit an idea or a message and they are one of the more popular ways people use to create and upload contents on the Internet. Youtube is a resource that makes this possible, but one of its weak points is that it hosts many mixed videos which are of low interest and can be considered as...

Diavideos1 is a web platform that collects trustworthy diabetes health videos from YouTube and offers them in a easy way. YouTube is a big repository of health videos, but good content is sometimes mixed with misleading and harmful videos such as promoting anorexia [1].Diavideos is a web portal that provides easy access to a repository of...

For patients with chronic diseases, exercise is a key part of rehab to deal better with their illness. Some of them do rehabilitation at home with telemedicine systems. However, keeping to their exercising program is challenging and many abandon the rehabilitation. We postulate that information technologies for socializing and serious games can...

Una de las vías más innovadoras para mejorar la alfabetización en salud, es decir, la capacidad de comprender y saber usar la información en ese ámbito, es el uso de los llamados "juegos para la salud". El uso de juegos formaría parte de un concepto más general que en inglés recibe el nombre de edutainment [1], acrónimo de...

Background: The Internet, and its popularity, continues to grow at an unprecedented pace. Watching videos online is very popular; it is estimated that 500 h of video are uploaded onto YouTube, a video-sharing service, every minute and that, by 2019, video formats will comprise more than 80% of Internet traffic. Health-related videos are very...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are becoming increasingly important for telemedicine applications, monitoring patients both in the clinical setting and at home. They reduce user discomfort, enhance mobility and reduce costs. WSN are also fundamental in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) since these smart systems, which are tailored to users...