Research is revealing that fitness trackers alone can be helpful facilitators toward changing a sedentary lifestyle but don’t motivate people to increase their physical activity.
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About one in five Aussies currently own a wearable fitness tracker of some kind. Yet many people doubt their effectiveness. Let’s see what the research suggests.
Fitness information like resting heart rate collected by wearable devices can’t diagnose diseases, but it can signal when something is wrong. That can be enough to prompt a COVID-19 test.
Heart-rate monitors can be accurate – as long as you don’t move.
Tracking sleep is now routine in monitoring overall well-being. But are the devices used to do this actually useful, or have we simply found a more sophisticated way to clock watch?
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Paediatric Sleep, Monash University
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Professor, Medical Research Future Fund Emerging Leader, University of South Australia
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Reader in Computer Science and Leader of Software and Systems Engineering Research, Keele University
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Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University
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PhD Researcher, Georgian Technical University
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PhD Researcher, University of Beira Interior
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Keele University
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo
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Research fellow, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology, Boise State University
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Professor and Department Head of Kinesiology, Recreation and Sport Studies, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, University of North Florida
