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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Smartwatches"”.
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Museum-worthy smartwatches: A medical humanities perspective
… on the relationships that bind people to their smartwatches along the Sea Point Promenade in the city of Cape Town. The study identifies smartwatches as objects with immense social, personal, and interpersonal traction. Materiality in anthropology is well explored and offers a range of …
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Recognition and Classification of Aggressive Motion Using Smartwatches
… participants donned two Microsoft Bands 2 smartwatches and performed an activity circuit of similar aggressive and non-aggressive movements. Statistical and physical features were extracted from the smartwatch sensors signals, and subsequently used by multiple classifiers to determine on a …
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Μακροχρόνια παρακολούθηση καρδιακού ρυθμού (smartwatches etc) σε ασθενείς με υπνική άπνοια
… Η ραγδαία ανάπτυξη των wearable συσκευών και των smartwatches έχει καταστήσει εφικτή τη συνεχή, μη επεμβατική καταγραφή φυσιολογικών παραμέτρων, όπως ο καρδιακός ρυθμός, η μεταβλητότητα του καρδιακού ρυθμού (HRV), ο κορεσμός οξυγόνου και η κινητικότητα, σε πραγματικές συνθήκες ζωής. Ιδιαίτερη …
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Improving the Accessibility of Smartwatches as Research Tools by Developing a Software Library
Over the past 10 years, smartwatches have become increasingly popular for commercial use. Their ever-increasing capabilities, accuracy, and sophistication of smartwatches is making them increasingly appealing to physical activity researchers as a valuable research tool. The non-invasive nature, …
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Orientation-indepedent wireless charging of multiple mobile devices at a distance
… devices on their person: mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches, etc. As a result, users must remember to recharge each device, every day. Wireless charging promises to free users from this burden, allowing devices to remain permanently unplugged. Today's wireless charging, however, is either …
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Development and Exploratory Findings of a Smartwatch Interface to Facilitate Group Cohesion in a Statewide Health Promotion Program
… behaviors. The use of technologies such as smartwatches has a potential to channel and amplify underlying group dynamics principles in such interventions. In order to explore the use of smartwatches for group dynamics-based physical activity interventions, a smartwatch centered system was …
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The Inclusion of Media Literacy in the English Curriculum
… devices. Their free time is spent on their smartwatches, cell phones, computers, or in front of their televisions and video games. When they arrive at school, they are expected to have the devices stored away and not have contact at all during the time they are at school. These students have …
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Modelling Malaysia residents’ behavioural intention to use smartwatch: the role of health technology and device benefits
Consumer smartwatches have been accessible for the worldwide consumer market since 2012 when Sony Corporation first offered them to the market. According to numerous smartwatch technology adoption journals, consumer smartwatch functionalities such as health technology, infotainment and …
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Applying multimodal sensing to human location estimation
"Mobile devices like smartphones and smartwatches are beginning to ""stick"" to the human body. Given that these devices are equipped with a variety of sensors, they are becoming a natural platform to understand various aspects of human behavior. This dissertation will focus on just one dimension …
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Preventing privacy attacks in IoT devices
… environment. Devices like fitness trackers, smartwatches, smart home appliances, and other devices make people’s lives easier. People can use their smartphones to control the thermostat, television, vacuum cleaner, and other connected devices. While IoT devices make their lives easier, they …
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Harnessing Intelligent Audio-Gesture Interfaces For Wearables As A Sleep Aid
… a smart sleep-aid application designed for smartwatches that leverages cognitive psychology and human-computerinteraction (HCI) to facilitate sleep onset by engaging users in audio tasks as a formof intrusive thought control. A significant aspect of Zzzonic's functionality is its adaptive …
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Passive Health Monitoring with RadioWaves —In Body and In Home
… of intelligent devices such as smartphones, smartwatches, and more cutting-edge devices such as in-body devices and contactless in-home sensors, we are beginning to see a paradigm shift in health care. The new paradigm can be summarized under the framework of digital health: health care is …
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The quantified self : the affect on health behavior from self-tracking
… as a consequence. Wearable technology such as smartwatches and fitness trackers (and others) have demonstrated to be a valuable solution for self tracking and monitoring vital signs, both for recreational and professional health care purposes. This thesis research investigates the opinions of …
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Human-Machine Alignment for Context Recognition in the Wild
… by smart wearables such as smartphones and smartwatches, and the labels are acquired from the user directly. To perform robust context prediction in this real-world scenario, the machine must handle the egocentric nature of the context, adapt to the changing world and user, and maintain a …
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Extending the Senses of Ubiquitous Devices
… versatile, energy-efficient sensor platform for smartwatches that supports integration of external sensors; and targeted hardware enhancements—such as increased bio-impedance sensing bandwidth in rings and wristbands—that enable richer contextual interactions and novel input methods. These …
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A data analytics framework for physiological signals from wearable devices
… sensors, including medical quality multi-sensor smartwatches and smart textile garments applied in diverse research contexts. In particular, a calibration dataset is developed to compare wearable and clinical devices in an affective computing task. We found that wearables can be employed as a …
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Reducing Stress in Math Tests Through Video-Based Question Formats: A Multimodal Affective Study
… heart rate and heart rate variability via smartwatches, and facial expressions via webcam. After calibrating responses to individual baselines and normalizing the data, mixed-effects models revealed that conventional questions elicited significantly higher arousal than video questions. In …
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Reducing Subthreshold Leakage Power Through Hybrid MOSFET-NEMS Power Gating
Modern devices such as smartphones and smartwatches spend a large amount of their life idle, waiting for external events. During this time, they are expending energy, using up battery life. Increasing power consumption is a rising concern to users and researchers alike. Power gating, turning off a …
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ArmTrak: tracking arm postures with a smartwatch
… elbow - using the motion and magnetic sensors on smartwatches. We do not intend to employ machine learning to train the system on a specific set of gestures. Instead, we aim to trace the geometric motion of the arm, which can then be used as a generic platform for gesture-based applications. The …
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The Story of Wearable Technology: A Framing Analysis
… with the popularization of fitness trackers and smartwatches. Because media portrayals influence public perception of topics covered by the media, exploring media portrayals of wearables is an important component part of understanding trends in growth and popularity of wearables. No other study …
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