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Smartwatch users should be wary of relying too heavily on these devices’ algorithmic measurements.
A new survey of UK adults finds most of us track our health at home, but not everyone is equally likely to benefit.
Smartwatches aren’t always as accurate as you might think. In some cases, you’d be better off listening to your body.
Your smartwatch or ring promises to tell you how well you slept. But how?
Our study also found that people who used a wearable fitness tracker were three times more likely to still be active a year later.
As wearable technologies become more popular, it’s important to consider how they actually work and what their data actually tells us.
With 17 billion internet-connected devices worldwide, AI is subtly creeping into our everyday lives – and making us more vulnerable to cyberattacks.
To better measure their activity and become members of a sports community, many amateur athletes are adopting smartwatches and digital tools. But others are giving them up.
Wearables and smartwatches can track your pulse – but if you’re using them to scan for irregular heart rhythms, there are some things you should know.
More and more people are incorporating wearable devices like smartwatches into their lives. But these wearables are a driving distraction that the public and law enforcement should be aware of.
Even half the amount of steps shows health benefits.
The use of online health platforms is on the rise, allowing us to track and share our personal data. While such platforms have promise, significant scientific, ethical and privacy questions remains.
Each device is complex in its own right, and trying to use them together in many different settings makes things even more complicated.
Research shows that people’s social networks, employment conditions and life stages all impact their use of wearable devices. Understanding these factors can help you achieve your fitness goals.
If you sit all day at work, then cancer, diabetes, heart disease and death are the likely outcomes. A cardiologist explains how the simple act of counting can reverse this evolutionary trend.
Technology that wouldn’t look out of place in a Hollywood spy movie is being marketed at students to help them cheat in exams.
Our internet use is tracked by cookies and clicks, but smartwatches will listen to our body to sense how we feel.
Smartwatches will bombard us with data about our internal lives. We risk letting sleep patterns, calorie counts and bio-rhythms dominate our days.
The announcement that Google is to halt sales of its Google Glass augmented-reality spectacles has been interpreted by some people as the end of a pilot project and the start of a new phase of product…
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Professor, Information and Communications Technology, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of Sociology (retired), Lancaster University
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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
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Professor of Technology & Society, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Associate Professor of Medicine and Senior Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University of Toronto
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Professor Emeritus, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Chair of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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