Towards an Integrated Health and Wellness Program Using Human-IoT Interaction

Over the past decade, the market size of connected wellness devices has grown in an exponential fashion. This trend is due to the advent and affordability of connected wearables and activity trackers. While users see in these health and wellness devices opportunities to nurture a culture of health and wellbeing, several hurdles still exist towards developing this culture. Wearable technologies companies have built closed-gated ecosystems around their products, preventing them to resonate with the clinical guidelines and best practices. Thus, users of these wearables find themselves torn apart between two drastically different environments; The medical healthcare environment and the wellness environment. In this paper, we explore the efforts already done to bridge that gap by analyzing the available health solutions. From this analysis, we draft guidelines for an integrated health and wellness ecosystem. These proposed guidelines focus on the Human-IoT Interaction aspect as an important cornerstone in the success and sustainability of the health and wellness program. These guidelines will also account for scalability and compatibility depending respectively on the advancement of medical practices and technologies available.