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Jane Dickson

March 20th, 2015

Wearable devices and behaviour change

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Jane Dickson

March 20th, 2015

Wearable devices and behaviour change

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

An article, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association talks about the expanding market of wearable devices. However, the gap between recording information with them and projected or hoped-for changing behaviours is still wide and they propose and discuss a number of reasons for this.

 

The article is here:

Wearable Devices as Facilitators, Not Drivers, of Health Behavior Change

by Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS; David A. Asch, MD, MBA; Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD

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Jane Dickson

I am an anthropologist on the D3 Delivering Digital Drugs Project based at LSE. I completed my PhD in the material culture of sustainability and green roofs. In my spare time I craft with glass, explore molecular gastronomy and love Sci-Fi.

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