Motivation and User Engagement in Fitness Tracking: Heuristics for Mobile Healthcare Wearables
Informatics, 2017 Wearable fitness trackers have gained a new level of popularity due to their ambient data gathering and analysis. This has signalled a trend toward self-efficacy and increased motivation among users of these devices.
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A Social and Ethical Framework for Providing Health Information Obtained from Combining Genetics and Fitness Tracking Data. [PDF]
Technol Soc, 2023 Esmonde K, Roth SM, Walker A.
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JMIR Cardio, 2022 BackgroundModern lifestyle is associated with a high prevalence of physical inactivity. ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the effect of a wearable tracking device on cardiorespiratory fitness among inactive ...
Lisbeth Hoejkjaer Larsen +3 more
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Perceived user preferences and usability evaluation of mainstream wearable devices for health monitoring [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background There are many problems with fitness trackers, such as device usability, which limit their large-scale application, and relevant studies are limited in terms of their sample size and evaluation methods. The purpose of the study was to evaluate
Yuxi Jia +5 more
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mSphere, 2021 When host fitness is dependent on gut microbiota, microbial community flexibility and reproducibility enhance host fitness by allowing fine-tuned environmental tracking and sufficient stability for host traits to evolve.
Justinn Renelies-Hamilton +4 more
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Markerless human motion tracking using hierarchical multi-swarm cooperative particle swarm optimization. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The high-dimensional search space involved in markerless full-body articulated human motion tracking from multiple-views video sequences has led to a number of solutions based on metaheuristics, the most recent form of which is Particle Swarm ...
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Tracking moving optima using Kalman-based predictions [PDF]
, 2008 The dynamic optimization problem concerns finding an optimum in a changing environment. In the field of evolutionary algorithms, this implies dealing with a timechanging fitness landscape.
Abderrahim, Mohamed +2 more
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Particle swarm optimization with composite particles in dynamic environments [PDF]
, 2010 This article is placed here with the permission of IEEE - Copyright @ 2010 IEEEIn recent years, there has been a growing interest in the study of particle swarm optimization (PSO) in dynamic environments.
Liu, L, Wang, D, Yang, S
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An individualized longitudinal approach to monitoring the dynamics of growth and fitness development in adolescent athletes. [PDF]
, 2013 This study evaluated the development of anthropometric and fitness characteristics of 3 individual adolescent junior rugby league players and compared their characteristics with a cross-sectional population matched by age and skill level. Cross-sectional
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BreakMi: Reversing, Exploiting and Fixing Xiaomi Fitness Tracking Ecosystem
Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2022 Xiaomi is the leading company in the fitness tracking industry. Successful attacks on its fitness tracking ecosystem would result in severe consequences, including the loss of sensitive health and personal data.
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