New Insight into Lifestyle Behaviors and Health Provided By Wearable Cameras

A collection of studies in a special theme issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine concludes that understanding the relationships between lifestyle behaviors and health outcomes can be enhanced by the use of wearable cameras. Three studies report on the latest preventive medicine research using Microsoft's wearable camera, the SenseCam.

"Wearable cameras and their associated software analysis tools have developed to the point that they now appear well suited to measure sedentary behavior, active travel, and nutrition-related behaviors," says author Aiden R. Doherty, PhD, from the Department of Public Health at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. "Individuals may recall events more accurately after reviewing images from their wearable cameras, and in addition aspects of their immediate cognitive functioning may also improve."

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