Abstract
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, bandwidth, computing power, and screen size. In this paper, we describe the experience of the research and development team designing, implementing and evaluating Amulet - 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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| State | Published - 2019 |
| Event | 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2019 - Los Cabos, Mexico Duration: Oct 21 2019 → Oct 25 2019 |
Conference
| Conference | 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2019 |
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| Country/Territory | Mexico |
| City | Los Cabos |
| Period | 10/21/19 → 10/25/19 |
Funding
The Amulet platform and its associated research are the result of contributions by many students, staff, postdocs, and faculty, dating back to 2011. These individuals include Alexandra Dalton, Alexandra Zagaria, Andres Molina-Markham, Anna Knowles, Bhargav Golla, Byron Lowens, Curtis Peter-son, David Harmon, Emily Greene, Emily Wechsler, Emma Oberstein, Eric Chen, Gunnar Pope, Hang Cai, Hilary Johnson, Jacob Sorber, Jasmine Mai, Joseph Skinner, Kelly Caine Kevin Storer, Micah Johnson, Morgan Sorbaro, Patrick Proctor, Ron Peterson, Ryan Scott, Sarah Lord, Stephanie Lewia, Stephen Bartels, Steven Hearndon, Suehayla Mohieldin, Summer Cook, Taylor Hardin, Tianlong Yun, Tim Pierson and Travis Peters. This research results from a research program at the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, supported by the National Science Foundation under award numbers CNS-1314281, CNS-1314342, CNS-1619970, CNS-1619950, and TC-0910842, and by the Department of Health and Human Services (SHARP program) under award number 90TR0003-01. Dr. Batsis’ research reported in this publication was supported in part by the National Institute On Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number K23AG051681, The Dartmouth Clinical and Translational Science Institute, under award number UL1TR001086 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and by the Dartmouth Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Center (Cooperative Agreement Number U48DP005018) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the sponsors.
Keywords
- Mobile Health
- Sensing
- Wearables
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Networks and Communications