An Application for Pairing with Wearable Devices to Monitor Personal Health Status

Yu Chen Yeh, Ang Yeh, Shih Han Hung, Chia Ching Wu, Yu Hsin Tung, Sung Yueh Liu, William C. Sullivan, Chun Yen Chang

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numbere63169
JournalJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE
Volume2022
Issue number180
Early online dateFeb 3 2022
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 3 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Neuroscience
  • General Chemical Engineering
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Immunology and Microbiology

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