4 Topic Commentaries

Smartwatch calorie accuracy is assessed

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  Euan Ashley, DPhil, FRCP

  Cardiology and biomedical data science

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  Stanford University School of Medicine

  But the energy expenditure measures were way off the mark.

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  Jason R. Kostrna, PhD

  Kinesiology and exercise science

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  Florida International University

  You can't treat the calories burned number it gives you as an accurate number, because it's not,

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  Nabil Alshurafa, PhD

  Digital health and wearable sensing

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  Northwestern University

  We turned everyday smartwatches into more accurate calorie burn trackers for people with obesity,

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  Mykel J. Kochenderfer, PhD

  Machine learning and sensing systems

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  Stanford University

  An issue with traditional smartwatches is they only get information from the movement of your wrist and heart rate,

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