MONARCA - Monitoring, treatment and prediction of bipolar disorder episodes

Contact Persons

Dr. Bert Arnrich

Objectives

MONARCA is a research project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union. The overall objective is to develop and validate mobile technologies for multi-parametric, long term monitoring of behavioral and physiological information relevant to bipolar disorder. It will combine those solutions with an appropriate platform and a set of services into an innovative system for management, treatment, and self-treatment of the disease.

As part of MONARCA, the Wearable Computing Lab. is working on the design, implementation and evaluation of mobile technologies for multi-parametric, long term monitoring of behavioral and physiological information relevant to bipolar disorder. Our work in the project will comprise three parts:

• further development of existing sensor technology to measure physiological signals,
• implementation of algorithms for detecting user’s mental state on mobile platforms, and
• evaluation of sensor technology and algorithms in medical trials.

Publications

2010

• Pervasive Healthcare - Paving the Way for a Pervasive, User-Centered and Preventive Healthcare Model
  Bert Arnrich, Oscar Mayora, Jakob Bardram and Gerhard Tröster
  (2010), in: Methods of Information in Medicine, 49(67-73)
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• Self Organizing Maps for Affective State Detection
  Bert Arnrich, Cornelia Setz, Roberto La Marca, Gerhard Tröster and Ulrike Ehlert
  in: Machine Learning for Assistive Technologies, 2010
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• Towards Long Term Monitoring of Electrodermal Activity in Daily Life
  Cornelia Setz, Johannes Schumm, Martin Kusserow, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: 5th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Health and Wellness (UbiHealth 2010), 2010
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]

Links

Official MONACRA Website