Tiny fluctuations in the time between each beat of your heart can provide clues about how much stress your body is experiencing.
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Smartwatches could provide an extra line of defence to help us keep COVID and other infectious diseases at bay. Here’s what the evidence says.
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.
The future of wearable technology holds limitless potential for elite athletes to optimize and enhance their athletic performance.
The government of Ontario’s announcement of funding of a wearable contact tracking device for workplaces raises concerns about privacy and surveillance.
Wearables already monitor our physical health – is it time for them to track our mental health too?
Despite the appeal of sleep trackers, they could cause unwanted anxiety for some.
Researchers are developing tattoo inks that do more than make pretty colors. Some can sense chemicals, temperature and UV radiation, setting the stage for tattoos that diagnose health problems.
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.
The watchdog has voiced concerns over the proposed US$2.1 billion merger, from which both users and Australian health services could lose out.
Smartphone apps and wearable devices can tell when workers have been within six feet of each other, promising to help curb the coronavirus. But they’re not all the same when it comes to privacy.
Lightweight, flexible materials can be used to make health-monitoring wearable devices, but powering the devices is a challenge. Using fuel cells instead of batteries could make the difference.
From wearables with monitoring chips to face scanners that assess your contentment, workplace surveillance seems to be going in one direction.
A health informatics researcher explains why people don’t always get the ‘credit’ they think they should from using wearable fitness trackers.
Trying a new exercise routine? Strapping on a new wearable monitor? An expert in human physiology explains the ins and outs of your heart rate and why it’s a valuable number to understand.
Engineers predict a time when people and robots physically interact all day long. For that to happen safely will require new soft materials that can do things like sense touch and change shape.
The Rape-aXe ‘female condom’, anti-rape underwear and an anti-groping stamp are all now on the market. But they put the onus on women to protect themselves, rather than on men not to attack them.
It can be tough to train a dog – but mainly because humans are even more prone to distraction and inconsistency than our canine companions. Wearable technology might help us be a bit more consistent.
Making technology such as a new smartphone that can you can roll, fold and bend requires new ways to manufacture.
Using smartphones and wearable devices to identify mental health symptoms and deliver psychotherapy will allow more people to access quality care, according to one psychiatrist.
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Professor of Sociology (retired), Lancaster University
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SHARP Professor, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Associate Professor of Research, Embodied Design and Wearable Futures, University of Southern Denmark
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Senior Lecturer in Design Interactions, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Associate Professor of Health and Sport Science, University of Dayton
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Theme Leader for Local Energy Systems, CSIRO
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Professor of General Practice, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor, Professorial Lead, University of South Australia
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Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
