The Future of Activity Monitoring: Innovating Beyond Steps, Sleep, and Speed
What will the future of activity monitoring bring? What are some new and novel applications? Where is there potential for new commercial partnerships and collaborations?
In this invited presentation, I explore how we might interact with movement-tracking sensors in the future and consider novel relationships that cross design, data, functionality, experience, and even species.
The talk was given at the International Conference on Ambulatory Monitoring of Physical Activity and Movement (ICAMPAM) in Limerick, Ireland, in June 2015. If you work in this field you might consider joining the new organization, the International Society for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour. And if you ever have a chance to go to Ireland, go! The people are wonderful and the scenery is spectacular.
References and Resources
Apple Watch / Smartwatches
- Apple Watch – Technology
- Apple Watch – Heart Rate
- Inside the Apple Watch: Technical Teardown Blog, Chipworks
- Apple Watch Teardown, iFixit
- This Heart Health App Is Seeing Big Usage On The Apple Watch, Stephanie M. Lee, Buzzfeed
- Apple Watch: does it really help you take charge of your health or is it just another pretty device? Hello Heart
- You Don’t Need a Smartwatch. (At Least, Not Yet.), Lauren Goode, Re/code
ResearchKit
- Apple – ResearchKit
- Apple – HealthKit developers
- Github, ReearchKit
- ResearchKit Active Tasks (2015-05-26)
- Apple Introduces ResearchKit (press release)
- mPower: Mobile Parkinson Disease Study
Music
- Spotify Running
- The Sync Project
- Recommended research (a few examples from the extensive research):
- Musical training as an alternative and effective method for neuro-education and neuro-rehabilitation. François C, Grau-Sánchez J, Duarte E, Rodriguez-Fornells A. Front Psychol. 2015 Apr 28;6:475. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00475. eCollection 2015. Review.
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- Rhythmic auditory stimulation modulates gait variability in Parkinson’s disease. Hausdorff JM, Lowenthal J, Herman T, Gruendlinger L, Peretz C, Giladi N. Eur J Neurosci. 2007 Oct;26(8):2369-75.
- Effect of rhythmic auditory stimulation on gait in Parkinsonian patients with and without freezing of gait. Arias P, Cudeiro J. PLoS One. 2010 Mar 22;5(3):e9675.
Animals
- Wearable Technology for Animals 2015-2025: Technologies, Markets, Forecasts
- Wearable-Tech Market for Pets Expected to Reach $2.6 Billion by 2025, Bridgette Meinhold , Ecouterre
- Dog Pedometer from Takara Tomy, Japan Trend Shop
- Sense-T: Beef and dairy
- Wandering Shepherd
- Ozzie the Oyster Tweet
- OysTag Aquaculture Biosensors Project
- Bees: Swarm Sensing – Australia, Brazil
Videos
- The V Motion Project — Can’t Help Myself
- Learn more: V Motion Project – Part I: The Instrument
- Wandering Shepherd
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