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Version Reporting and Assessment Approaches for New and Updated Activity and Heart Rate Monitors

Collins, Tim; Woolley, Sandra; Oniani, Salome; Miguel Pires, Ivan; M. Garcia, Nuno; Ledger, Sean; Pandyan, Anand

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Tim Collins

Salome Oniani

Ivan Miguel Pires

Nuno M. Garcia

Sean Ledger

Anand Pandyan



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.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 8, 2019
Publication Date 2019-04
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Sensors
Publisher MDPI
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 19
Issue 7
Article Number 1705
DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/s19071705
Keywords wearable sensing; activity monitoring; ambulatory heart rate; inter-instrument reliability
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19071705

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