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Everything about Smartwatch
Wearable computer in the form of a watch
A smartwatch is a wearable computer that resembles a wristwatch. Most modern smartwatches are operated via a touchscreen, and rely on mobile apps that run on a connected device in order to provide core functions. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SmartwatchA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Prospective evaluation of smartwatch-enabled detection of left ventricular dysfunctionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Learning WatchKit programmingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Large-Scale Assessment of a Smartwatch to Identify Atrial FibrillationCited 1,867 times
- Go sideways: Wear OSA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Pebble (watch)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A wristwatch with electronic functionality beyond timekeeping. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Noun A mobile device worn on the wrist with a touchscreen display.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Large-Scale Assessment of a Smartwatch to Identify Atrial Fibrillation
Passive Detection of Atrial Fibrillation Using a Commercially Available Smartwatch
Pre-symptomatic detection of COVID-19 from smartwatch data
Wearable technologies: The role of usefulness and visibility in smartwatch adoption
Rationale and design of a large-scale, app-based study to identify cardiac arrhythmias using a smartwatch: The Apple Heart Study
Smartwatch Algorithm for Automated Detection of Atrial Fibrillation
The effect of consumer innovativeness on perceived value and continuance intention to use smartwatch
Smartphone and Smartwatch-Based Biometrics Using Activities of Daily Living
🆕 Influential since 2022
Prospective evaluation of smartwatch-enabled detection of left ventricular dysfunction
Using a smartwatch and smartphone to assess early Parkinson’s disease in the WATCH-PD study
Automatic and continuous blood pressure monitoring via an optical-fiber-sensor-assisted smartwatch
Using a smartwatch and smartphone to assess early Parkinson’s disease in the WATCH-PD study over 12 months
A comprehensive accuracy assessment of Samsung smartwatch heart rate and heart rate variability
📚 Books worth reading
Learning WatchKit programmingWei-Meng Lee · 2015
Wearable technologyTom Bruno · 2015
Swift Development for the Apple Watch: An Intro to the WatchKit Framework, Glances, and NotificationsJonathon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison · 2016- 📕Journalismus auf SmartwatchesAnis Mičijević · 2018
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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