Project title

• Distributed Self – Customized and Context-Aware Healthcare Service Agents in Smart Phone Environment

Funding source

• National Core Research Center (NCRC) / Korea Research Foundation (KRF)

Duration

• 2010-09-01~2017-02-28 (6.5 years)

Key Areas in Computer Science

• Biomedical Informatics; Context-Aware Computing; Data/Text Mining

Description

• The modern paradigm for medical and healthcare services, so-called “Four P’s medicine” (i.e., Predictive, Personalized, Preemptive, Participatory medicine), requires IT-convergence technologies among biological, medical, and computer sciences, defining an interdisciplinary area of biomedical informatics. SBI-NCRC was established in September 2010 as a KRF-supported National Core Research Center (Director: Prof. Juhan Kim at Seoul National University, College of Medicine) with an aim to study and understand multi-faceted knowledge and experience of this new field, and develop the so-called “Health Avatar” for integrating genome, clinical, and life pattern information of each individual. More than 30 professors and researchers from SNU, KAIST, Ajou University, and ETRI are participating in this center as the principal investigators. Our lab’s research goals in this NCRC involve customized and context-aware healthcare service agents in smart phone environment.

Recent topics of interests

• Activity Recognition and Emotion Analysis
• Life Pattern Analysis and Healthcare Social Networks
• Text Mining of Biological Data