title: Toward flexible and wearable human-interactive health-monitoring devices.
abstract: This Progress Report introduces flexible wearable health-monitoring devices that interact with a person by detecting from and stimulating the body. Interactive health-monitoring devices should be highly flexible and attach to the body without awareness like a bandage. This type of wearable health-monitoring device will realize a new class of electronics, which will be applicable not only to health monitoring, but also to other electrical devices. However, to realize wearable health-monitoring devices, many obstacles must be overcome to economically form the active electrical components on a flexible substrate using macroscale fabrication processes. In particular, health-monitoring sensors and curing functions need to be integrated. Here recent developments and advancements toward flexible health-monitoring devices are presented, including conceptual designs of human-interactive devices.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan.
authors.forename: Kuniharu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takei
authors.forename: Wataru
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Honda
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Arie
authors.forename: Seiji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akita
mesh_terms: D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D004581:Electronics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D059015:Wireless Technology / Q000295:instrumentation
keywords: flexible devices; health monitoring devices; human interactive devices; wearable devices