Browsing by Author "Lin, Bo-Hau"

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An Interactive Healthcare System with Personalized Diet and Exercise Guideline Recommendation
(2015)
Tseng, Jerry C. C.
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Lin, Bo-Hau
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Lin, Yu-Feng
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Day, Miin-Luen
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Wang, Shyh-Chyi
Recently people pay more and more attention on how to effectively and efficiently analyze the result of regular physical examinations to provide the most helpful information for individual health management. In this paper, we design and develop an interactive system of virtual healthcare assistant to help people, especially for those who suffer from chronic diseases (e.g., metabolic syndrome) to easily understand their health conditions and then well manage it. This system analyzes the result of regular physical examination to evaluate the health risk and provide personalized healthcare services for users in terms of diet and exercise guideline recommendations. We developed some interactive ways for users to easily feedback their vital signs to the system and quickly get the suggestions for health management from the system. Besides the browser-based system, we also developed a mobile App that can regularly remind users to carry out the recommendations, which are provided by the system. To prove the system is feasible in the real-world clinical environment, we also applied the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for a human subject research to validate this system. Other than the functional features, there are also several important non-functional features of the extensibility and the convenience for use. First, we use the physical examination result as the raw data to be analyzed. It\'s very convenient for users with very low cost. Second, the system design is extendable, so it can be easily adjusted to work for any chronic ills, even other kinds of diseases. Moreover, it can be extended to provide other kinds of healthcare guideline recommendations as well. These features constitute the main contributions of this work.
Efficient Multi-Destinations Route Planning with Deadlines and Cost Constraints
(2017-01-01)
Huang, Yu
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Tseng, Vincent S.
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Lin, Bo-Hau
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資訊工程學系
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Department of Computer Science
In recent years, multi-destinations route planning has been the topic of much research, which is an emerging branch of the route planning problem. The existing works have been focusing on how to find routes that minimize a single kind of trip cost, such as trip time or distance, amongst others. In fact, users may have multiple requirements in real-life multi-destinations route planning applications, including for personal or business purposes (e.g., express delivery). We observed the fact that (i) there may exist a respective deadline in reaching each of the destinations, (ii) users may consider to reduce further kinds of trip costs, such as fuel, in addition to the deadline constraint. In this paper, we address a novel route planning problem named Multi-Destinations Route Planning with Deadlines and Cost Constraints and propose two approaches, namely BMDC (Basic Multi-Destinations Route Computation) and AMDC (Advanced Multi-Destinations Route Computation) to efficiently plan a route that satisfies deadline requirements and optimizes another criterion such as trip cost. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on route planning that considers multiple deadlines for multi-destinations as well as optimizing trip cost, simultaneously. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed algorithms deliver excellent performance in terms of efficiency and effectiveness.