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PaWei

Target population: Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) or other movement disorders such as progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), multiple system atrophy (MSA), etc. 

Measures:  Speech, Parkinsonism 

Clinical support: Monitoring

PaWei is a PD management smartphone app. It is an integrated app designed for people with movement disorders, PD in particular. For assessment, PaWei app focuses on the following aspects: 

  • Self-reported questionnaire, including Parkinson Disease Questionnaire 8 (PDQ-8), medication questionnaire etc.

  • Voice analysis: Patients are asked to perform sustained vowel /a:/ and record their voice via smartphone. The recording will be assessed acoustically, and acoustic analysis results will be provided to the patients shortly after they upload the recording, including percent of Jitter, percent of Shimmer etc.

  • Video collection and analysis: Patients are asked to perform finger-tapping, pronation-supination movements of hands and gait according to the demonstration video and record their movement via smartphone. The finger-tapping video clips can be evaluated automatically via computer vision techniques, and the analysis results will be provided to the patients, including tapping frequency, tapping interval and tapping amplitude.

  • Mini-game for cognitive testing and training (the Whac-a-Mole mini-game).

It also includes modules for patient condition information, medical speclialist listings, online consultation, medication purchasing, patient education, and a forum. 
 


Languages: Simplified Chinese

Platforms: Mobile Phone (iPhone, Android). 

User interfaces: Patients. Healthcare providers can access information with patients’ consent.

Additional Features:

  • Control data available
  • All data stored in an online database
  • PaWei team owns relevant data
  • Qualified doctors and researchers with patients’ consent can request data and analysis support
     

For more information:
hspdworkshop@163.com

Jian Wang
wangjian_hs@fudan.edu.cn 
wangjian336@hotmail.com