Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8515157 | Medical Hypotheses | 2018 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
Unconscious bias (developers' perceptions of usual behaviour) may be embedded into many unvalidated smartphone apps. Consumer-grade wearable devices appear unsuitable to detect steps in people with slow, short or non-stereotypical gait patterns. Specifically, there is a risk of systematically undercounting the steps by obese people, females or people from different ethnic groups resulting in biases when reporting associations between physical inactivity and obesity. More research is required to develop smartphone apps suitable for all people of the heterogeneous global population.
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Authors
M.A. Brodie, E.M. Pliner, A. Ho, Kalina Li, Z. Chen, S.C. Gandevia, S.R. Lord,