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Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a useful indicator that rates a person’s activities in various physical, mental and social domains. Continuously measuring HRQOL can help detect the early signs of declines in these activities and lead to steps to prevent such declines. However, it is difficult to continuously measure HRQOL by conventional methods, since its measurement requires each user to answer burdensome questionnaires. In this paper, we propose a simplified HRQOL measurement method for a continuous HRQOL measurement which can reduce the burden of questionnaires. In our method, sensor data from smart devices and the questionnaire scores of HRQOL are collected and used to construct a machine-learning model that estimates the score for each HRQOL questionnaire item. Our experiment result showed our method’s potential and found effective features for some questions.
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This work is partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 16H06980, Grants-in-Aid for Humanophilic Innovation Project, and Health and Labor Sciences Research Grants (201621010A).
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Amenomori, C., Mizumoto, T., Suwa, H., Arakawa, Y., Yasumoto, K. (2018). A Method for Simplified HRQOL Measurement by Smart Devices. In: Perego, P., Rahmani, A., TaheriNejad, N. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 247. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98551-0_11
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