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The interest in improving the sustained use of wearables goes beyond employer programs, according to the Annals of Internal Medicine study. It also applies to data collection for precision medicine initiatives to better target interventions. Via Richard Platt 
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When it comes to software, Garmin Connect is one of the most comprehensive platforms out there. While the app and web dashboard might lack in intuitiveness, they certainly don’t lack in detail. With the latest update, Garmin has now thrown in a few more features.
Olivier Janin's insight:
It is strange to me how major brands, like Garmin, Apple and Google, are communicating around there Data Visualisation and Social Sharing features as if they were new. Historical innovators, like Jawbone, Nike Fuel, Runkeeper, Runtastic, already released such features with a strong UX/UI designs, and it was in 2010. It looks like Fitness and Health Data tracking services are trying to convince the consumers with the same value proposals, trying to find the key arguments to generate a solid growth and a massive adoption. It is time for Wearables to re-invent themselves.
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MIT's Researchers Tuka AlHanai andMohammad Mahdi Ghassemi built an algorithm that can analyze speech and tone. This data is crunched to work out what emotion a person is roughly feeling for every five second block of conversation.
Olivier Janin's insight:
MIT's students used a Samsung Simband (Samsung SDK) and crossed voice and Heart Rate signals treatment.
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February 16, 2017 12:17 PM
MIT's students used a Samsung Simband (Samsung SDK) and crossed voice and Heart Rate signals treatment.
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Facebook could one day build facial gesture controls for its app thanks to the acquisition of a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company called..
Olivier Janin's insight:
The use-cases are first dedicated to photo and video features. Facebook and Snapchat racing competition. There are also potential in VR area. With the challenge to make the user face "readable" as he wears the VR mask. No information on the transaction amount.
Olivier Janin's curator insight,
November 17, 2016 6:52 AM
The use-cases are first dedicated to photo and video features. Facebook and Snapchat racing competition. There are also potential in VR area. With the challenge to make the user face "readable" as he wears the VR mask. No information on the transaction amount.
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A silicon valley startup wants you to have one less charger in your life thanks to its exercise-tracking smartwatch design that allows a wearable device to be powered via the user's own body heat.
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The third annual 'Future of Dating' report predicts an increasing use of smart technology in data gathering and online matchmaking.
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Fitbit was punished this week on Wall Street by shaving off 33% of the stock value this week. This was mainly due to investors disappointment with lagging sales. Last year sales increased by 92% in the fourth quarter and expectations were released that sales were going to remain steady compared to last year which was not well received in the Stock Market. Only on Wall Street, would maintaining 25% of the Fitness Tracker market and the same strong sales numbers as last year be bad news.
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Pokemon Go has captivated those who would rather sit on the couch. That's a win for public health.
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Snapchat's first hardware product is coming to the market sooner than anyone expected. The company said tonight that it will sell Spectacles, a set of connected sunglasses that record 10-second snippets of video, for $130 sometime this fall. It also rebranded itself as Snap, Inc. — a reflection of a fact that the company now makes more than its flagship app, co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel told the Wall Street Journal.
Olivier Janin's insight:
Will Spectacle Sunglasses be main stream ? I would say potentially yes (let's check it on Summer 2017). Anyway the product already made the job as a marketing asset to support SNAP brand repositionning.
A Company should worry. It's the Swedish company that released "Narrative Clip" in 2014, this small camera that automatically take a picture every 5 minutes to generate your personal diary within a community ecosystem.
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Bridging the physical and digital.
La veste en jean Levi’s équipée de la technologie Jacquard et baptisée Commuter X a été officiellement présentée lors de la conférence “Bridging the physical and digital. Imagine the possibilities.”
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Wearable technology has evolved the way people interact with their environment. Learn more about how and when wearables are going to be integrated in life.
Olivier Janin's insight:
The report captures the opinion of 5.000 consumers from U.K., U.S., China, South Korea, Brazil and the findings are interesting. Read also the Key findings here.
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The Smart watch features GPS function, vocal msg, emojis messages, alert buttons. On the parent side, the mobile App helps you track your kids positioning all day long.. SRP : $59
Olivier Janin's insight:
Off course, we all want our kids to be safe. But psychological studies seem to suggest that parental monitoring of children can cause a number of developmental problems: lower self-esteem, antisocial behavior, indecisiveness, or anxiety, among others.
On this topic, read also :
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Who needs bulky bands when you can project information right on your hand?
Olivier Janin's insight:
The concept of e-Skin is interesting but it seems to me that we are far from any real usability. Of course it displays the SpO2 in real time, but there is no info on how will the real skin exactly react to this.
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Après l’avoir fait pour les publications puis les conversations Messenger, Facebook permet à ses utilisateurs de mieux exprimer leurs sentiments à propos des commentaires. De quoi en apprendre encore plus sur eux.
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« Vous aimez… ? Vous aimerez… » Combien de fois avez-vous lu cette question et sa réponse en regard de la grille télé, du joli pull blanc sur tel site de mode ? Et si cette question n’était concrètement plus posée,
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February 16, 2017 12:16 PM
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Fitbit is in advanced talks to acquire Pebble, the smartwatch pioneer and darling of crowdfunding site Kickstarter, the Financial Times reports.
Olivier Janin's insight:
Just one insight : buy a Pebble before it is too late.
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Hurdl is a text-based platform that creates one-to-one communication between attendees and hosts. On November 2 at the 50th Annual Country Music Association Awards in Nashville, a new tech product debuted that offers a different way for planners to communicate directly with their attendees.
Olivier Janin's insight:
Event sharing features are definitely interesting to explore in terms of Application fields.
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Being able to measure emotional responses will with no doubt lead to the biggest paradigm shift in the history of marketing.
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The worldwide smartwatch market experienced a round of growing pains in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16), resulting in a year-over-year decline in shipment volumes. According to data from the International Data Corporation, (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, total smartwatch volumes reached 2.7 million units shipped in 3Q16, a decrease of 51.6% from the 5.6 million units shipped in 3Q15.
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Google s'apprêterait à lancer deux nouvelles smartwatches maison début 2017. Elles embarqueraient Android Wear et viendraient concurrencer l'Apple Watch.
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The Doppel uses vibrations to mimic your heart rate and get your hyper-focused. The founders don’t know why it works, but it does.
Olivier Janin's insight:
The Doppel team findings are interesting in terms of haptic effects. Their product features positioning on the feedback loop is bright. Now, it misses a bridge with the biometric sensing of the wearer to adapt to any situation.
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Jawbone, the richly valued maker of wearable gadgets and wireless speakers, appears to be on increasingly shaky financial footing as it struggles to pay vendors and keep inventory in stock.
Olivier Janin's insight:
Is Jawbone disappearing ? Its slow fade-away is unfortunate for a company that delivered good wearable actimeters, UX and App. For any businesses involved into wearables / digital health / connected well-being, It's time to learn from Jawbone failure.
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When Nintendo revealed that a Pokémon AR game was in the works last September, it also mentioned a companion wearable designed to notify players when they’re close to a Pokémon or a Pokéstop.
The Pokémon Go Plus was slated to arrive at the end of this month, but Nintendo has now announced that its launch has been pushed to some time in September. The Bluetooth-based device, which can be pinned to your clothing or strapped on to your wrist, will go on sale for $34.99.
Olivier Janin's insight:
Will Pokemon GO be only a passing trend ? Being involved into the Gaming Industry crossing with Digital Health, here are my 50 cents about Pokemon Go. I am a casual gamer, regularly playing mobile games and AAA console games.
Pokemon Go mixes Geolocalisation and Augmented Reality. It can be categorized as an "Alternate Reality Game". Pokemon Go is not the first mobile game that mix Geolocalisation and Augmented Reality ("AR") (eg. Ghost Busters App in 2012.) But none of its predecessors have reached a so fast growing phenomenon. We must mention "Ingress" - edited by Google and developed by Niantic Games - that is a great successful game with geoloc but no AR (the Pokemon Go geolocalisation DB is based on Ingress) So what makes the difference ?
3 reasons are sustaining Pokemon Go sucess :
Since 2006 and the first Nike-iPod actimeter, I have been using / testing all the Quantified-Self solutions available on the market. None of them was enough gamified to engage me into a strong and durable behavior change.
I don't know if Pokemon Go will succeed in making people regularly workout for a long period of time. But what I'm sure of is that Fitbit or Withings should definitely envision to partner with entertainment companies to make their experiences more Playful.
That's the EntertRainment vision I follow with my team to deliver App and UX that triggers self-care behaviors.
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Deepak Chopra, a leading figure in the alternative health movement, is moving into the mobile app business with the launch of Jiyo. Chopra and his co-founder..
Olivier Janin's insight:
A very interesting step forward from Deepak Chopra and his associates. Jiyo is going further by considering all of our tracked data on a new angle. The wellness through holistic data driven calculation. I like it. Be more your better self ! You can already read a first test review of Jiyo App here.
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Nokia has announced plans to acquire Withings — a French consumer electronics company focused on digital health — for €170 million ($191 million) in cash.
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Read also the official press release from Nokia.
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Quantifying the effectiveness of wearables to increase activity within the framework of a payer or employer wellness program has been the source of more than a few studies. Can financial incentives from these groups also steer participants to the desired outcome? Will participants be sufficiently engaged to use these wearables over a long period of time? What are some of the characteristics of the longer term users? This area has been a topic of interest for Dr. Mitesh Patel, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School as well as director of Penn Medicine’s Nudge Unit. But the interest in improving the sustained use of wearables goes beyond employer programs, according to the Annals of Internal Medicine study. It also applies to data collection for precision medicine initiatives to better target interventions. In what Patel said is the largest study of its kind to evaluate the stickiness of wearables in a step counting program, 4.4 million Humana wellness program members were invited to take part. Of those, 55,000 actually downloaded the relevant app for the study, which was published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers analyzed data for a two-year period from 2014-2015 and tracked when participants first activated their activity tracker, how frequently the device was used in the first six months following activation, average daily step counts and sociodemographic characteristics, according to a news release from Penn. In a phone interview Patel said he was struck that although 0.2 percent used the devices in year one, that rose to 1.2 percent in year two. In six months, 80 percent of the people who started using the device were still using it.