The fitness tracker on your phone or wrist may be doing more than just monitoring your steps – it could kick them up a notch. Monitoring exercise increased that activity among the more than 16,000 ...

Physical activity monitors, such as fitness apps and wearable activity trackers, that provide direct feedback to users do help to boost activity levels in adults, finds a summary of the evidence, ...

In today’s fast-paced world, maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become more critical than ever. With sedentary habits becoming the norm, fitness trackers have emerged as essential tools that help ...

Fitbits are the most common consumer physical activity monitor used in biomedical studies, according to a study led by Stephen P. Wright, PhD, a medical researcher at Washington, D.C.-based Georgetown ...

Objective To determine the net effect of different physical activity intervention components on step counts in addition to self-monitoring. Design A systematic review with meta-analysis and ...

Actually I was looking for this topic on Ars Technica in relation to three major news stories, but I couldn't find much beyond incidental mentions of Fitbit and iWatch. Other searches led me to this ...

Physical activity monitors, such as fitness apps and wearable activity trackers, that provide direct feedback to users do help to boost activity levels in adults, finds a summary of the evidence, ...

Feasibility and Prediction of Adverse Events in a Postoperative Monitoring Program of Patient-Reported Outcomes and a Wearable Device Among Gynecologic Oncology Patients Fifty-one patients were ...

This paper connects the technological practice of activity monitor gaming to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) science and engineering practice of “analyzing and interpreting data,” and to ...

The Activity Monitor in macOS may not be as accurate with the data it provides to Apple Silicon users, with a report claiming the tool cannot properly tell the difference between performance and ...