Issues and challenges of user and data interaction in healthcare-related IoT: A systematic review
ISSN: 0737-8831
Article publication date: 13 March 2020
Issue publication date: 4 November 2020
Abstract
Purpose
The Internet of Things (IoT), which enables smart objects to collect and exchange data, has a variety of application domains used in everyday life including healthcare. As a set of promising next-generation technologies in the healthcare domain, Healthcare-related Internet of Things (H-IoT) promises to facilitate better healthcare by offering data-driven insights. While effective in practice at large, emerging data concerns arise because of the inscrutable black-box systems. Inspired by the notion of human data interaction, this paper seeks to understand how people engage with the H-IoT data that is about and produced by themselves and to elucidate the main data issues and challenges involved in the development of H-IoT.
Design/methodology/approach
This work conducted a comprehensive survey and integrated the method of content analysis by systematically review the recently published H-IoT research work in the healthcare domain.
Findings
This study thoroughly surveyed more than 300 research studies published in the last decades and classified seven H-IoT end-user groups, and three H-IoT data types that are important to H-IoT comprehension. Attention to human data interaction, our study also highlights several critical issues associated with this notion in the context of H-IoT.
Originality/value
This study will support H-IoT research by characterizing the data issues and challenges exist in the context of H-IoT user and data interaction. The findings will provide insights in designing for effective interactions with data in the H-IoT.
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Acknowledgements
This work was also an outcome of Wuhan University’s Talents Introduction Project “Research on open data organization and association for intelligent health”.
Citation
Zou, N., Liang, S. and He, D. (2020), "Issues and challenges of user and data interaction in healthcare-related IoT: A systematic review", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 38 No. 4, pp. 769-782. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-09-2019-0177
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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