Applications of Wearable Device Technology

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 Applications of Wearable Device Technology

• Health / Medicine
• Sports / Fitness
• Entertainment / Gaming
• Fashion
• Military

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 Health / Medicine

Wearables can be used to collect data on a user's health including:

• Heart rate
• Blood pressure
• Release of certain biochemicals
• Seizures
• Sleep Pattern
• Oxygen saturation

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 Sport / Fitness

Wearables can be used to collect activities including:

• Walking Steps
• Calories burned
• Time Spent Exercises

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 Entertainment / Game

Wearables can be used to create new ways to experience digital media or

controller for video game consoles including:

• Virtual reality headsets

• Augmented reality glasses
• Game Controller
• HoloLens
• Apple Vision Pro

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 Fashion

Fashionable wearables are “designed garments and accessories that

combines aesthetics and style with functional technology.”

• Smart Fabrics
• Smart Clothing
• Smart Shoes

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 Military

The technology used for

educational purposes within the
military are mainly wearables that
tracks a soldier's vitals. By tracking
a soldier's heart rate, blood
pressure, emotional status, etc.
helps the research and
development team best help the
soldiers.

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 How to Start to Design a Product?

1. Think about what you want to design/build?

2. Document it
Write down everything you can think of that relates to your design, from what it is and
how it works to how you'll make it.

3. Do a research and see if there are any similar products

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 How to Start a Design Project

4. Think about it is a series of small steps that build into a final product
This concept can make projects easier to manage and help you build a more
predictable timeline as well.
Functionality of the system
The ability to scale is important

5. The next step is planning

Schedule your design time
How are you going to test it?

6. Start with your favorite task

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 Example
Background: Scoliosis is a 3D spinal Deformity
Brace Treatment is the most commonly used Non-surgical
Treatment

Scoliosis
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 Example

Treatment Outcome Factors

 How much time the patient wears his/her brace?
 How good is the brace design?
 How tight the brace is worn?

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 Example

Develop a device that can measure how tight and how much
time the brace is worn?

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 What will you do?

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 Research

Rahman 2010
Katz 2010 Helfenstein 2006

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 My Product

+ +

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 User Experience Design

User experience (UX) design is the process design teams use to create
products that provide meaningful and relevant experiences to users.

This involves the design of the entire process of acquiring and

integrating the product, including aspects of branding, design, usability
and function.

UX designers don’t just focus on creating products that are usable;

they also concentrate on other aspects of the user experience, such
as pleasure, efficiency and fun.

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 What UX Designers do goes Beyond UI Design

“User Experience Design” is often used interchangeably with terms such as

“User Interface Design” and “Usability”. However, while usability and user
interface (UI) design are important aspects of UX design, they are subsets of it
– UX design covers a vast array of other areas, too.

“User interface (UI) is the medium through user interact with the solution

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 3 Important Points of UX Design

Why? What? How?

The Why involves the users’ motivations for adopting a product, whether
they relate to a task they wish to perform with it or to values and views
which users associate with the ownership and use of the product.
The What addresses the things people can do with a product—its
functionality.
The How relates to the design of functionality in an accessible and
aesthetically pleasant way.

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 How to use UX Design?

Example – A Wearable Blood Pressure Monitor

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 Why?

The Why involves the users’ motivations for adopting a product, whether
they relate to a task they wish to perform with it or to values and views
which users associate with the ownership and use of the product.

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 Stroke Statistics

Worldwide Statistics
•According to the World Health Organization, 15 million people suffer stroke
worldwide each year. Of these, 5 million die and another 5 million are
permanently disabled.
•High blood pressure contributes to more than 12.7 million strokes worldwide.
•Europe averages approximately 650,000 stroke deaths each year.
•In developed countries, the incidence of stroke is declining, largely due to efforts
to lower blood pressure and reduce smoking. However, the overall rate of stroke
remains high due to the aging of the population.

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 Cardiovascular Diseases

• Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number 1 cause of death globally,

taking an estimated 17.9 million lives each year. CVDs are a group
of disorders of the heart and blood vessels and include coronary heart
disease, cerebrovascular disease, rheumatic heart disease and other
conditions.
• Four out of 5CVD deaths are due to heart attacks and strokes, and one
third of these deaths occur prematurely in people under 70 years of age.
• Individuals at risk of CVD may demonstrate raised blood pressure,
glucose, and lipids as well as overweight and obesity.

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 Monitoring Blood Pressure

• High blood pressure is putting extra strain on your arteries and on your heart.
• This strain can cause the arteries to become thicker and less flexible, or to
become weaker. This make arteries more likely to become clogged up. If an
artery becomes completely clogged up (known as a clot), this can lead to a
heart attack, a stroke, kidney disease or dementia.
• More rarely, if an artery has become weakened, the extra strain may
eventually lead to the artery bursting. This may also cause a heart attack or
stroke
• For low blood pressure, a person may have symptoms of dizziness or
faintness when standing up suddenly

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 Monitoring Blood Pressure

•Help with early diagnosis. Self-monitoring can help your doctor diagnose high blood pressure earlier.
Home monitoring is especially important if you have elevated blood pressure or another condition that
could contribute to high blood pressure, such as diabetes or kidney problems.
•Help track your treatment. The only way to know whether your lifestyle changes or medications are
working is to check your blood pressure regularly.
•Encourage better control. Self-monitoring can give you a stronger sense of responsibility for your
health. You may feel even more motivated to control your blood pressure with an improved diet, physical
activity and proper medication use.
•Cut your health care costs. Self-monitoring might decrease your number of visits to your doctor or
clinic.
•Check if your blood pressure differs outside the doctor's office. Some people experience spikes in
blood pressure due to anxiety associated with seeing a doctor (white coat hypertension). Other people
have normal blood pressure at a clinic but elevated pressure elsewhere (masked hypertension).
Monitoring blood pressure at home can help determine if you have true high blood pressure.

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 Existing Products

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 What?

The What addresses the things people can do with a product—its functionality.

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 What?

• Measure Blood Pressure

• Measurement accuracy
• Measurement speed
• Ease of use
• Subject age range
• Device size
• Display method
• Any safety standard
• Never Miss a Beat

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 Challenges

Easy to design a monitor that will work well on a subject

• that is sitting still
• has a regular heartbeat,
• motion free

Difficult to design a monitor that will quickly capture a subject's blood

pressure when the subject is moving or is being transported.

Power Consumption

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 Challenges

1. Artifact

a. Muscle activity
b. Tendon movement
c. Respiration
d. Vibration such as that caused by transportation
e. Shivering
f. Elevation changes

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 Challenges

2. Arrhythmia
a. Missed beats (Algorithm must accommodate)
b. Premature ventricular contractions (PVC) (Algorithm must accommodate)
c. Premature Atrial contractions PAC
d. Atrial Fibrillation
e. Ventricular fibrillation (ignore. BP not useful)
f. Erratic heart beats (Non-sinus rhythm)

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 Requirements

A blood pressure monitor normally obtains the blood pressure by means of

an occluding cuff. International regulations require that an automatic
cycling device be single-fault-tolerant to prevent too long of inflation, or
inflation to a pressure that is too high.
These time and pressure limits differ between adults and children.

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 How?

The How relates to the design of functionality in an accessible and

aesthetically pleasant way.

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 How?
Tech Specs:
Model: BP8000-M
Display: Transflective memory-in-pixel LCD
Memory: Blood pressure measurement up to 100 times, Activity
measurement up to 7 days, Sleep measurement up to 7 times, Event up
to 100 items
Transmission method: Bluetooth® low energy technology
Power source: 1 Lithium ion polymer rechargeable battery, AC adapter
Battery lifespan: Will last for approximately 500 cycles, 8 times/day
measurements in normal temperatures of 77 °F (25 °C) when new
battery fully charged
Battery life: A typical user can expect to charge HeartGuide
approximately 2-3 times per week, depending upon the frequency of
use of HeartGuide’s features
Weight: Approximately 4.1 oz (115 g)
Dimensions: Diameter approximately 1.89” (48 mm), Case thickness
approximately 0.55” (14 mm), Band width approximately 1.18” (30 mm)
Measurable wrist circumference: 6.3” to 7.5” (160 to 190 mm)

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 How?

Features include:
•Monitor blood pressure, activity and sleep quality
•Track trends over time with color-coded health graphs
•Easy access to dashboard, health history, reminders
and settings
•Get daily actionable insights based on your
personalized data
•Meet the American Heart Association/American
College of Cardiology standard

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