NU 2023-148
INVENTORS
SHORT DESCRIPTION
ABSTRACT
Smoking, a widespread global health concern responsible for numerous preventable illnesses and fatalities, poses a challenge in monitoring and understanding detailed smoking behavior, known as smoking topography, to aid in smoking cessation. Traditional tracking methods are intrusive, costly, and disrupt natural behavior, hindering real-time interventions. Northwestern Medicine's SmokeMon, a discrete smart necklace, has been introduced as a groundbreaking solution. Leveraging thermal-sensing technology, it unobtrusively captures spatial, temporal, and thermal data, efficiently monitoring a smoker's puffing habits while safeguarding their privacy. SmokeMon measures puff counts, durations, and intervals, offering crucial insights for smoking cessation efforts. This innovative device holds promise in combating smoking-related health issues, providing a more precise and private means of studying smoking topography.
APPLICATIONS
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PUBLICATION
Alharbi R, Shahi S, Cruz S, Li L, Sen S, Pedram M, Romano C, Hester J, Katsaggelos A, Alshurafa N. (2022) SmokeMon: Unobtrusive Extraction of Smoking Topography Using Wearable Energy-Efficient Thermal. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 6, 155
Rawan Alharbi, Soroush Shahi, Stefany Cruz, Lingfeng Li, Sougata Sen, Mahdi Pedram, Christopher Romano, Josiah Hester, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, and Nabil Alshurafa. 2023. SmokeMon: Unobtrusive Extraction of Smoking Topography Using Wearable Energy-Efficient Thermal. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 4, Article 155 (December 2022), 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569460
IP STATUS
A provisional application has been filed
Prototype of SmokeMon Necklace