Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Telemedicine Multimedia Systems to Support Neurodegenerative Diseases Participatory Management

À Joana, por sempre acreditares e veres o melhor em mim... Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s affecting mainly people over 60 years. Due to the population fast aging and forecast of a great increase in the number of PD patients, this disease has been the focus of abundant attention from the scientific community. Telemedicine, an area known for providing healthcare services at a distance, has taken a great interest in PD. With the recent technological developments, an ample number of proposals have been made in the last decade to better monitor this illness, empowering specialized physicians with more and better information to support the diagnosis and management of this disease. In this dissertation the design and development of a multimedia platform intended to allow a better PD remote home monitoring through an easy accessible, highly usable, and integrated system is presented. The MoPA system, as well as other systems in literature, provides diversified solutions to obtain more patient’s daily living and quality of life (QoL) information. Nevertheless, contrary to literature, our system allows the medical staff to access a video repository where the