Paper Info
Title
An evaluation of wearable activity monitoring devices
Abstract
This paper examines an increasingly relevant topic in the multimedia community of wearable devices that record the physical activity of a user throughout a day. While activity and other accelerometry-based data has been shown effective in various multimedia applications -- from context-aware music retrieval to approximating carbon footprint -- the most promising role of these target application for healthcare and personal fitness. Recently, several low-cost devices have become available to consumers. In this paper, we perform an evaluation on the most popular devices available on the market (in particular Fitbit and Nike+) and report our findings in terms of accuracy, type of data provided, available APIs, and user experience. This information is useful for researchers considering incorporating these activity-based data streams into their research and for getting a better idea of the reliability and accuracy for use in life-logging and other multimedia applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2509352.2512882
PDM@ACM Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
accelerometry-based data,multimedia application,available apis,user experience,various multimedia application,multimedia community,activity-based data stream,better idea,physical activity,approximating carbon footprint,wearable activity monitoring device,quantified self,social media,life logging
User experience design,Data stream mining,Nike,Social media,Computer science,Wearable computer,Carbon footprint,Wearable technology,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
1.28
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fangfang Guo1201.28
Yu Li248324.38
Mohan Kankanhalli33825299.56
Michael S. Brown42122129.13