Publication
Smart-watch Life Saver: Smart-watch Interactive-feedback System for Improving Bystander CPR
Agnes Grünerbl; Gerald Pirkl; Eloise Monger; Mary Gobbi; Paul Lukowicz
In: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), located at zusammen mit UbiComp'15, September 9-11, Osaka, Japan, Pages 19-26, ISWC '15, ISBN 978-1-4503-3578-2, ACM, 2015.
Abstract
In this work a Smart-Watch application, that is able to monitor the frequency and depth of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and provide interactive corrective feedback is described. We have evaluated the system with a total of 41 subjects who had undertaken a single episode of CPR training several years previously. This training was part of a First Aid course for lay people, commonly accessed in this population. The evaluation was conducted by measuring participant CPR competence using the "gold standard" of CPR training [10], namely frequency and compression depth. The evaluation demonstrated that the Smart Watch feedback system provided a significant improvement in the participant performance. For example, it doubled the number of people who could maintain bot the parameters in the recommended range for at least 50% of the time.