Leveraging Consumer Wearables to Transform Behavioral Research

Talk on using consumer wearable devices for research. Presented at the 2018 USC mHealth Symposium

1. USC mHealth Collaboratory Mobile/Connected Health Symposium April, 25, 2018 Ernesto Ramirez, PhD Director, R&D Fitabase ` Leveraging Consumer Wearables to Transform Behavioral Research
2. Deploy. Measure. Collect. Fitabase supports innovative collection powering the next generation of health research. @eramirez | @fitabase
3. Behavioral Science & Research • episodic • controlled • simple inferences
4. Behavioral Science & Research Tools • human recall • poor sensing • time consuming • limited data
5. S L O W
6. L I N E A R
7. F A S T
8. D Y N M A I C
9. EARABLES
10. Intense Longitudinal Data GENERATORS
11. AN EXAMPLE
12. 2011 ---------------------2018
22. • user friendly • remote collection • personalization • contextualization Impact of Wearable Sensors
23. 3 7 26 49 180 255 55 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 As of 04/01/2018 Number of Published Research Studies Using Fitbit Devices
24. Context Collectors µema data capture custom prompts
25. meet people where they are