{"id":124518,"date":"2021-07-02T00:25:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/skin-in-the-game-transformative-approach-uses-the-human-body-to-recharge-smartwatches"},"modified":"2021-07-02T00:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:25:05","slug":"skin-in-the-game-transformative-approach-uses-the-human-body-to-recharge-smartwatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/skin-in-the-game-transformative-approach-uses-the-human-body-to-recharge-smartwatches","title":{"rendered":"Skin in the game: Transformative approach uses the human body to recharge smartwatches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zrJwZRauO4E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As smart watches are increasingly able to monitor the vital signs of health, including what\u2019s going on when we sleep, a problem has emerged: Those wearable, wireless devices are often disconnected from our body overnight, being charged at the bedside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuality of sleep and its patterns contain a lot of important information about patients\u2019 health conditions,\u201d says Sunghoon Ivan Lee, assistant professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences and director of the Advanced Human Health Analytics Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>But that information can\u2019t be tracked on smartwatches if the wearable devices are being charged as users sleep, which prior research has shown is frequently the case. Lee adds, \u201cThe main reason users discontinue the long-term use of wearable devices is because they have to frequently charge the on\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">device<\/a> battery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As smart watches are increasingly able to monitor the vital signs of health, including what\u2019s going on when we sleep, a problem has emerged: Those wearable, wireless devices are often disconnected from our body overnight, being charged at the bedside. \u201cQuality of sleep and its patterns contain a lot of important information about patients\u2019 health [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}