UWB and mmWave Communication Techniques and Systems for Healthcare - Ultra-Wideband and 60 GHz Communications for Biomedical Applications - page 18

Fig. 6 60-GHz/5G wireless technologies scenario for remote medical diagnostics system realization
GHz is proposed based on VISION infrastructure and HW/SW node model for the
realization of a system for impaired children control (Fig. 7 ).
People who have difficulties in communicating verbally, such as communicative
impaired children (i.e. children with aphasia or dyslexia, general speech language
impairments), send non-verbal messages that are not immediately captured by care-
givers and parents, especially if they are not expert. For example, a child might
appear calm and receptive to learning or enjoining in playing a game, while he/she
is sad or angry or simply he/she dislikes the activity in which he/she is involved.
For this reason, he/she is inattentive or may become aggressive for no reason. This
scenario makes useless the attempt to teach or simply entertain the children.
This fundamental communication problem can be addressed by enabling two
main functionalities: (1) to collect longitudinal data of emotion-related expressive
and physiological signals, in order to reveal the internal state that influence child's
behaviour and (2) to provide such information to caregivers to quickly intervene,
in order to test the clinical and perceived effectiveness of the applied therapies in
the treatments of childhood language disorders. The functionality (1) is enabled
if the room is equipped with hidden video sensors, the patient is equipped with
physiological sensors analysed in a body area network and hidden microphones
are placed around. The functionality (2) is enabled if the above mentioned sensing
units can transmit the captured data in real time to a control unit, which forwards
global status information, alerts and suggests suitable behaviour and therapies to the