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

George Boateng, Vivian Genaro Motti, Varun Mishra, John A. Batsis, Josiah Hester, David Kotz

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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 languageEnglish (US)
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2019 - Los Cabos, Mexico
Duration: Oct 21 2019Oct 25 2019

Conference

Conference25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2019
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityLos Cabos
Period10/21/1910/25/19

Keywords

  • Mobile Health
  • Sensing
  • Wearables

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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