Version Reporting and Assessment Approaches for New and Updated Activity and Heart Rate Monitors†
Tim Collins 1,*
, Sandra I. Woolley 2, Salome Oniani 3, Ivan Miguel Pires 4,5,6, Nuno M. Garcia 4,6,7, Sean J. Ledger 8 and Anand Pandyan 8
, Sandra I. Woolley 2, Salome Oniani 3, Ivan Miguel Pires 4,5,6, Nuno M. Garcia 4,6,7, Sean J. Ledger 8 and Anand Pandyan 8
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School of Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6BH, UK
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School of Computing and Mathematics, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK
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Faculty of Informatics and Control Systems, Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi 380075, Georgia
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Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
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Altranportugal, S.A., 1990-096 Lisbon, Portugal
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ALLab—Assisted Living Computing and Telecommunications Laboratory, Computing Science Department, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
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ECATI, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, 1749-024 Lisbon, Portugal
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School of Health and Rehabilitation, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK
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This paper is an extended version of our paper published in Oniani, S.; Woolley, S.I.; Pires, I.M.; Garcia, N.M.; Collins, T.; Ledger, S.; Pandyan, A. Reliability Assessment of New and Updated Consumer-Grade Activity and Heart Rate Monitors. In Proceedings of the IARIA Conference on Sensor Device Technologies and Applications, Venice, Italy, 16–20 September 2018.
Sensors 2019, 19(7), 1705; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19071705
Received: 19 March 2019 / Revised: 4 April 2019 / Accepted: 8 April 2019 / Published: 10 April 2019
(This article belongs to the Collection Selected Papers from SPWID, ALLSENSORS, SENSORCOMM, SENSORDEVICES, SMART ACCESSIBILITY, SIGNAL, CENICS, ICQNM)
Abstract
This paper addresses the significant need for improvements in device version reporting and practice across the academic and technical activity monitoring literature, and it recommends assessments for new and updated consumer sensing devices. Reproducibility and data veracity are central to good scholarship, and particularly significant in clinical and health applications. Across the literature there is an absence of device version reporting and a failure to recognize that device validity is not maintained when firmware and software updates can, and do, change device performance and parameter estimation. In this paper, we propose the use of tractable methods to assess devices at their current version and provide an example empirical approach. Experimental results for heart rate and step count acquisitions during walking and everyday living activities from Garmin Vivosmart 3 (v4.10) wristband monitors are presented and analyzed, and the reliability issues of optically-acquired heart rates, especially during periods of activity, are demonstrated and discussed. In conclusion, the paper recommends the empirical assessment of new and updated activity monitors and improvements in device version reporting across the academic and technical literature. View Full-TextKeywords:
wearable sensing; activity monitoring; ambulatory heart rate; inter-instrument reliability
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