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Acu Glass: Quantifying Acupuncture Therapy using Google Glass

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.28-9-2015.2261520,
        author={Haotian Jiang and James Starkman and Chia-Hung Kuo and Ming-Chun Huang},
        title={Acu Glass: Quantifying Acupuncture Therapy using Google Glass},
        proceedings={10th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
        year={2015},
        month={12},
        keywords={google glass augmented reality acupuncture integrative medicine training and treatment},
        doi={10.4108/eai.28-9-2015.2261520}
    }
    
  • Haotian Jiang
    James Starkman
    Chia-Hung Kuo
    Ming-Chun Huang
    Year: 2015
    Acu Glass: Quantifying Acupuncture Therapy using Google Glass
    BODYNETS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.28-9-2015.2261520
Haotian Jiang1, James Starkman1, Chia-Hung Kuo1, Ming-Chun Huang1,*
  • 1: Electrical and Computer Science Department Case Western Reserve University
*Contact email: ming-chun.huang@case.edu

Abstract

Acupuncture is a therapeutic or preventative therapy through the stimulation on acupoints that located on the body surface across the anatomy to affect the functions of specific organs or soft tissues. During the acupuncture training process, mapping the acupuncture map to patients could be a challenging work since the trainees mainly rely on the instruction from experienced acupuncturists. In this study, a wearable acupuncture assistant system using augmented reality technology was introduced to record the whole treatment process with augmented information that quantified the traditional acupuncture practice. Through constructing a dynamic, personalized, and self-regulating map of virtual acupoints, the system quantified the coordinates of the acupoints to form a basic guideline to help the trainee to recall the type and location of acupuncture map. The experimental results show that the proposed system could record the coordinate of acupoints in real time and the augmented information also has the potential to be a visual guide during treatment.

Keywords
google glass, augmented reality, acupuncture, integrative medicine, training and treatment
Published
2015-12-14
Publisher
ACM
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.28-9-2015.2261520
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