I could see a doctor counseling a patient for weight loss and giving them a new (and inexpensive) digital watch that has the activity monitor built in.
Physical activity (swinging arms, moving through space) is now quantified, and reasonable, achievable goals could be set so that the patient could realize a daily sense of accomplishment around physically activity and (hopefully) develop a progressively more active lifestyle.
Thanks for the comment, Bernie. Weight loss is, of course, the primary application, but accurate activity monitoring can also be a very useful tool for individuals recovering from major illnesses or from surgery, and for the elderly and their caregivers.
Christopher GrayThe idea of extending pedometers and other similar devices is excellent. I hope you will consider engineering speech output into products based on the ideas presented here. It's not hard to do, and it would be useful to millions of visually impaired Americans, more throughout the world.
We already use speech output for our posture feedback devices, and definitely plan to also use it for activity-monitoring technology. It is vital for visually-impaired users, as you indicate, but also serves a useful motivational purpose for non-visually-impaired users, as it is flexible and can make the device unobtrusive.
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I could see a doctor counseling a patient for weight loss and giving them a new (and inexpensive) digital watch that has the activity monitor built in.
Physical activity (swinging arms, moving through space) is now quantified, and reasonable, achievable goals could be set so that the patient could realize a daily sense of accomplishment around physically activity and (hopefully) develop a progressively more active lifestyle.
Thanks for the comment, Bernie. Weight loss is, of course, the primary application, but accurate activity monitoring can also be a very useful tool for individuals recovering from major illnesses or from surgery, and for the elderly and their caregivers.
-- Chris Noble
Christopher GrayThe idea of extending pedometers and other similar devices is excellent. I hope you will consider engineering speech output into products based on the ideas presented here. It's not hard to do, and it would be useful to millions of visually impaired Americans, more throughout the world.
We already use speech output for our posture feedback devices, and definitely plan to also use it for activity-monitoring technology. It is vital for visually-impaired users, as you indicate, but also serves a useful motivational purpose for non-visually-impaired users, as it is flexible and can make the device unobtrusive.
Thanks for the comment,
-- Chris Noble
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