Bio-Digital Wearables
for Space Health Enhancement
Contributors | Pat Pataranutaporn, Abhinandan Jain, Brandon Dorr, M.S. Suryateja Jammalamadaka, Casey Johnson, Orisa Coombs, Nicita Mehta, Berenice Estrada, Pratik Shah, David S. Kong, Chris Voigt, and Pattie Maes
Photo: Project Team
The lack of microgravity could have a physical and mental impact on astronauts living in space. Different biological systems adapt in spaceflight conditions at different rates. Wearable Lab On Body is a platform for active continuous monitoring of human biomarkers from the biological fluid.
Credit: Wearable Lab and BioFab
The platform contains both digital sensors such as IMUs for activity recognition, as well as an automated system for continuous sampling of biomarkers from saliva by leveraging already existing paper-based biochemical sensors.
The platform is designed to continuously sample saliva from the individual and analyze it using a roll of multiplexed biochemical sensors. As research on space health reveals changes in term of physical and mental health, our platform could aid with longitudinal studies of biomarkers and early diagnosis of diseases caused by microgravity environment of space.
News & Publications
P. Pataranutaporn, A. Jain, C. M. Johnson, P. Shah and P. Maes, "Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device," 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, 2019, pp. 3327-3332. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857479