EAI PervasiveHealth 2022 – 16th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for
Healthcare
December 12-14, 2022
Thessaloniki, Greece
Smartphone-based IoT systems have the potential to predict and keep control of Quality of Life
measurements with the adequate design. This work aims to provide a comprehensive strategy for the
development of a disease-specific application to monitor Quality of Life in Head and Neck Cancer
survivors. This research first presents the results from a literature review focused on mHealth services for
cancer patients. Second, we provide a complete overview of a clinical trial protocol where patients are
encouraged to (1) perform self-management by actively reporting symptoms, (2) keep healthy lifestyles,
(3) interact with an embedded artificial intelligence that serves as an additional patient-physician
communication channel, and (4) fill in Quality of Life standard questionnaires from a web platform from
home. The challenges addressed, the unobtrusive data collection procedures chosen, and the quality data
obtained from physical, social, and behavioral measures, provides a resourceful set of guidelines and
requirements for future research works aimed at after-treatment cancer patients monitoring through IoT
portable devices.