Providing people with information about their own physical state has been used for a long time under the general term "bio-feedback." In this project, we are trying to expand the general ideas of bio-feedback to include the monitoring of day-to-day health information such as diets, exercise, and stress. We are particularly interested in compliance, and in health improvements as a function of both the hardware used (personal computers vs. PDAs) and the type of information and feedback that is given back to the users.
Providing people with information about their own physical state has been used for a long time under the general term "bio-feedback." In this project, we are trying to expand the general ideas of bio-feedback to include the monitoring of day-to-day health information such as diets, exercise, and stress. We are particularly interested in compliance, and in health improvements as a function of both the hardware used (personal computers vs. PDAs) and the type of information and feedback that is given back to the users.