Health empowerment through activity trackers: An empirical smart wristband study

Nelson, Elizabeth C.; Verhagen, Tibert; Noordzij, Matthijs Leendert

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.03.065

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“…Apart from applicative solutions installed on the user's mobile device, informing the user is also possible by using a smart wristband. The smart wristband is applied mostly in order to inform the user about his/her health condition (pulse, blood pressure) or to remind the person to take his/her medicine) [13][14][15][16]. Apart from health purposes, the smart wristband can also be used in smart house concepts where information can be collected from the sensors that are in the wireless sensor network (WSN) [17][18][19][20].…”

Section: Analysis Of User Needsmentioning

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Proposal of a Conceptual Architecture System for Informing the User in the IoT Environment

Periša

Marković

Kolarovszki

et al. 2019

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Design and development of systems for delivering real-time information to people with disabilities and elderly persons need to be based on defined user requirements. For this purpose, the user requirements have been defined in this paper according to the everyday needs of people who use traffic networks and move in closed spaces. The logical presentation of the functionality of the informing system operation and its subsystems includes all the information (data) important for designing a user information delivery system. The paper presents a conceptual architecture system for delivering user informing services related to the environment based on the Internet of Things concept. The aim of the user informing service is an increase in the level of mobility of persons with disabilities and the senior age groups of users. In order to check the operation of the proposed architecture, the informing system operation was monitored on Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi platforms in laboratory conditions. A simulation confirmed the interdependence of individual data from different subsystems in order to provide real-time information to the system user. The proposed conceptual architecture can contribute to a more efficient approach to the modeling of assistive technologies (with the aim of informing the users) based on dew/fog/cloud technologies in the Internet of Things environment. KEY WORDS information management system; smart wristband; data collection; active daily living;

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Proposal of a Conceptual Architecture System for Informing the User in the IoT Environment

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Marković

Kolarovszki

et al. 2019

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“…Wearable devices are becoming smaller and more mobile with time, opening new alternatives to traditional ways that providers have interacted with patients, carried out tests, collected data and delivered treatments . Wearables come in many forms; there are smart wristbands, watches, shirts, shoes, headbands, eyeglasses and necklaces, amongst others. Most of them contain sensors that gather raw data that is fed into a database or software application for analysis.…”

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Advanced Materials for Health Monitoring with Skin‐Based Wearable Devices

Jin

Abu-Raya

Haick

2017

Adv Healthcare Materials

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Skin‐based wearable devices have a great potential that could result in a revolutionary approach to health monitoring and diagnosing disease. With continued innovation and intensive attention to the materials and fabrication technologies, development of these healthcare devices is progressively encouraged. This article gives a concise, although admittedly non‐exhaustive, didactic review of some of the main concepts and approaches related to recent advances and developments in the scope of skin‐based wearable devices (e.g. temperature, strain, biomarker‐analysis werable devices, etc.), with an emphasis on emerging materials and fabrication techniques in the relevant fields. To give a comprehensive statement, part of the review presents and discusses different aspects of these advanced materials, such as the sensitivity, biocompatibility and durability as well as the major approaches proposed for enhancing their chemical and physical properties. A complementary section of the review linking these advanced materials with wearable device technologies is particularly specified. Some of the strong and weak points in development of each wearable material/device are highlighted and criticized. Several ideas regarding further improvement of skin‐based wearable devices are also discussed.

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“…Harrison et al [11] focused on the long-term use of Fitbit activity trackers and corresponding behavior changes in users. Nelson et al [4] investigated the health empowerment of Fitbit or Jawbone trackers by conducting quantitative surveys of 210 users; similarly, Meyer et al [14] shed light on the usability of activity trackers in daily life by considering how users perceived and made sense of feedback mechanisms and the way personal information was presented.…”

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“…As a subset of consumer wearable devices, "activity trackers" or "fitness trackers" are used for monitoring physical activity and fitness-related metrics. Unlike smartphone embedded functionality or applications, activity tracking devices are mostly wearable and primarily serve a fitness monitoring purpose [4]. Their popularity has risen, as they have become more affordable, unobtrusive, and useful in their application.…”

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Activity Trackers, Relational Affordances, and Device Ecologies of Fitness Technologies (Preprint)

Jarrahi¹

2018

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BACKGROUND With the proliferation of activity-tracking devices and other smart tools, more users leverage these technologies to track their physical and fitness-related activities. The research on the benefits (and limitations) of these devices tends to focus on the use of a single tool, leaving out the interactions among multiple technologies, and how these interactions influence the way users perceive affordances of activity trackers. OBJECTIVE The research on the benefits (and limitations) of fitness tacking devices to date tends to focus on the use of a single tool, leaving out the interactions among multiple technologies. Building from an ecological perspective, this work extend the research on activity-tracking devices by providing insight into the relationships among activity tracking devices and other fitness-related technologies within the device ecology of technologies around the user. METHODS This exploratory, qualitative study is based on 29 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with users of Fitbit fitness tracking devices. RESULTS Analysis of the interviews revealed competitive and complementary interactions among various fitness tracking devices, and explained how these interactions influenced the way users perceived affordances of fitness trackers in a device ecology. CONCLUSIONS The affordances of fitness devices are not enacted in isolation but are relational to those of other technological options and differing personal preferences and goals of the user.

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Health empowerment through activity trackers: An empirical smart wristband study

Cited by 120 publications

References 84 publications

Proposal of a Conceptual Architecture System for Informing the User in the IoT Environment

Proposal of a Conceptual Architecture System for Informing the User in the IoT Environment

Advanced Materials for Health Monitoring with Skin‐Based Wearable Devices

Activity Trackers, Relational Affordances, and Device Ecologies of Fitness Technologies (Preprint)

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