IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine's unique aim is to publish original work in the intersection of engineering and clinical translation. The journal's focus is interdisciplinary collaborations between researchers, healthcare providers, and industry and aims to publish results and best practices from these translational efforts.
Ruofei Hu received the B.E. in Telecommunication Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2011, and the M.Sc. degree in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, in 2013, where she is pursuing the Ph.D. degree. She was also been working as research engineer at Life Supporting Technologies group at UPM since 2013. Her main research is focused in the use of ICT to support the treatment of obesity and childhood obesity. Her research interests are the application of gamification, serious games, affective computing and deep learning for health areas.
Childhood obesity is becoming one of the 21st century’s most important public health problems. Nowadays, the main treatment of childhood obesity is behavior intervention that aims at improve children’s lifestyle to arrest the disease. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have...
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