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SUMMARY:Can Earables Revolutionise Continuous Vital Sign Monitoring? - Fah
 im Kawsar\,  University of Glasgow and Nokia Bell Labs
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CONTACT:Cecilia Mascolo
DESCRIPTION:Do you know that someone has a heart attack by the time you fi
 nish reading this abstract? Indeed\, every 40 seconds\, a heart attack occ
 urs\, and a heart attack fatality occurs about every minute. For long\, me
 dical science has established that frequent monitoring of heart rate and b
 lood pressure is the key to mitigating significant risks for stroke\, hear
 t failure and coronary artery disease. Current gold-standard vital sign mo
 nitoring devices are invasive\, cause discomfort and interfere with users'
  activities. We challenge this status quo and ask - can your next earable 
 be the secret weapon to manage your cardiovascular health? We aren't talki
 ng PopSci here\, but the remarkable capabilities of a sensory earable - us
 hering a new pathway to a healthy heart. However\, ensuring the accuracy a
 nd robustness of in-ear vital sign measurements is the most complex challe
 nge in this vision.  This lecturer will reflect on the algorithms and thei
 r systematic characterisations to address this challenge in continuously m
 easuring the five most critical vital signs in our ear - Heart Rate (and H
 eart Rate Variability)\, SPO2\, Respiration Rate\, Temperature and Blood P
 ressure.\n\nBiography: Fahim Kawsar leads Pervasive Systems research at No
 kia Bell Labs\, Cambridge and holds a Mobile Systems Professorship in Comp
 uting Science at the University of Glasgow. He studies forms and intellige
 nce of multi-sensory devices to learn\, infer and augment human behaviour.
  Fahim is a Nokia Bell Labs Fellow.
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building and Online
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