TY - GEN
T1 - See UV on your skin
T2 - 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks, BODYNETS 2013
AU - Zhang, Xiaoyi
AU - Xu, Wenyao
AU - Huang, Ming Chun
AU - Amini, Navid
AU - Ren, Fengbo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2013 ICST.
PY - 2013/10/29
Y1 - 2013/10/29
N2 - These days, as the Earth's protective ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet (UV) radiation threat is growing. In addition, getting tanned as a fashion leads people to wear less clothing, which increases UV intake. Excessive exposure to ultraviolet will lead to sunburn and even skin cancer. Therefore, neither insufficient nor excessive exposure is desirable. Although there are tons of UV meters on the market, a user may have a hard time to understand the unintuitive UV index reading. Thus, there is a potential demand for a portable system which can keep track of daily UV exposure dose, visualize possible sunburned consequences, and provide appropriate skin care recommendations. In this paper, we present a personalized UV monitoring and notification system. This system can continuously track UV exposure by wearable UV sensors. It can also visualize the cumulative UV exposure dose according to a predictive sunburned skin color model. Such an augmented skin color can provide a warning message to indicate the possible result of continuous UV exposure. Compared with other existing systems, our solution not only allows users to monitor their daily UV exposure, but also provides an unobtrusive UV visualization model which effectively warns users to take appropriate actions to avoid potential skin damage. The system has been tested on 9 subjects, and the evaluation feedback indicates that our system is promising for UV monitoring and sunburn prevention.
AB - These days, as the Earth's protective ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet (UV) radiation threat is growing. In addition, getting tanned as a fashion leads people to wear less clothing, which increases UV intake. Excessive exposure to ultraviolet will lead to sunburn and even skin cancer. Therefore, neither insufficient nor excessive exposure is desirable. Although there are tons of UV meters on the market, a user may have a hard time to understand the unintuitive UV index reading. Thus, there is a potential demand for a portable system which can keep track of daily UV exposure dose, visualize possible sunburned consequences, and provide appropriate skin care recommendations. In this paper, we present a personalized UV monitoring and notification system. This system can continuously track UV exposure by wearable UV sensors. It can also visualize the cumulative UV exposure dose according to a predictive sunburned skin color model. Such an augmented skin color can provide a warning message to indicate the possible result of continuous UV exposure. Compared with other existing systems, our solution not only allows users to monitor their daily UV exposure, but also provides an unobtrusive UV visualization model which effectively warns users to take appropriate actions to avoid potential skin damage. The system has been tested on 9 subjects, and the evaluation feedback indicates that our system is promising for UV monitoring and sunburn prevention.
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U2 - 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253701
DO - 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253701
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84925244020
T3 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks, BodyNets 2013
SP - 22
EP - 28
BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks, BodyNets 2013
A2 - Suzuki, Junichi
A2 - Wang, Honggang
PB - ICST
Y2 - 30 September 2013 through 2 October 2013
ER -