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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Fitness devices like Fitbit set an automatic goal of 10,000 steps a day. But this isn’t the magic threshold some make it out to be.
As wearables record more personal and physical activity data about us, we risk giving away more than we’d imagine.
We can already track plenty of body data, but to really make a difference, wearables need to consistently collect clinically valuable information that can be used to improve health.
Beyond simply counting steps, fitness tracking technology creates personal black boxes that archive everything we do – even sleeping. So it’s not surprising to see that a Calgary law firm, representing…
Rumours are surfacing that Microsoft will launch its own smartwatch in the next few weeks. Given that Microsoft Windows Phone accounts for just 2.5% of the world smartphone market, the watch will work…
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SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Paediatric Sleep, Monash University
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Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer, Digital and Social Media, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Media & Communication, Muhlenberg College
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Senior Lecturer in Design Interactions, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University
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Deputy Head of School, Computing and Information Science, Anglia Ruskin University
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PhD Candidate, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor, Sport Management, Brock University
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Professor of Distributed Systems & Chair in Applied Data Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen
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Professor, Medical Research Future Fund Emerging Leader, University of South Australia
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Reader in Exercise and Health Physiology, University of Hertfordshire
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
