An Application for Pairing with Wearable Devices to Monitor Personal Health Status
Journal
Journal of Visualized Experiments
Journal Volume
2022
Journal Issue
180
Date Issued
2022-02
Author(s)
Yeh, Yu-Chen
Yeh, Ang
Wu, Chia-Ching
Tung, Yu-Hsin
Liu, Sung-Yueh
Sullivan, William C.
Abstract
The current protocol aims to showcase the technology integration, providing a detailed description of adopting the HealthCloud app, developed by the Healthy Landscape and Healthy People Lab, National Taiwan University (HLHP-NTU), on smartphones and smartwatches to collect data on users' real-time psychological and physiological responses and environmental information. A flexible and integrated research method was proposed because it can be difficult to measure multi-dimensional aspects of personal data in on-site studies in landscape and outdoor recreation research. An on-site study conducted in 2020 at the National Taiwan University campus was used as an application example. A dataset of 385 participants was used after excluding invalid samples. During the experiment, participants were asked to walk around campus for 30 min when their heart rate and psychological-scale items were measured, together with several environmental metrics. This work aimed to provide a possible solution to help on-site studies track real-time human responses that match ambient factors. Due to the app's flexibility, its use on wearable devices shows excellent potential for multidisciplinary research studies. © 2022 JoVE Journal of Visualized Experiments.
Other Subjects
electronic device; health status; human; mobile application; physiologic monitoring; smartphone; Health Status; Humans; Mobile Applications; Monitoring, Physiologic; Smartphone; Wearable Electronic Devices
Type
journal article