Experience: Design, Development and Evaluation of a Wearable Device for mHealth Applications

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• Alternative Title:
  Proc Annu Int Conf Mob Comput Netw
• Personal Author:
  Boateng, George ; Motti, Vivian Genaro ; Mishra, Varun ; Batsis, John A. ; Hester, Josiah ; Kotz, David
• Description:
  Wrist-worn devices hold great potential as a platform for mobile health (mHealth) applications because they comprise a familiar, convenient form factor and can embed sensors in proximity to the human body. Despite this potential, however, they are severely limited in battery life, storage, band-width, computing power, and screen size. In this paper, we describe the experience of the research and development team designing, implementing and evaluating | - an open-hardware, open-software wrist-worn computing device - and its experience using Amulet to deploy mHealth apps in the field. In the past five years the team conducted 11 studies in the lab and in the field, involving 204 participants and collecting over 77,780 hours of sensor data. We describe the technical issues the team encountered and the lessons they learned, and conclude with a set of recommendations. We anticipate the experience described herein will be useful for the development of other research-oriented computing platforms. It should also be useful for researchers interested in developing and deploying mHealth applications, whether with the Amulet system or with other wearable platforms.
• Keywords:
  Mobile Health Sensing Wearables
• Source:
  Proc Annu Int Conf Mob Comput Netw. 2019
• Pubmed ID:
  34262408
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8276769
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  UL1 TR001086/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR000003/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U48 DP005018/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U48DP005018/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; K23 AG051681/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  2019
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:428796ce8339acd8064d9e77d84c339c3cf4bb353ea0497a2da3c31a01af5d14
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/158049/cdc_158049_DS1.pdf
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