Title
Experience: Design, Development and Evaluation of a Wearable Device for mHealth Applications
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3300061.3345432
MobiCom '19: The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Los Cabos Mexico October, 2019
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Mobile Health,Wearables,Sensing
Conference
2019
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1543-5679
978-1-4503-6169-9
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
George Boateng110.69
Vivian Genaro Motti29920.45
Varun Mishra3134.62
John A. Batsis410.69
Josiah D. Hester513818.13
David Kotz64292430.36