by Binghamton University Weekly workout programs and example exercise instruction set with images as displayed to participants in the smartphone-based intervention group. Credit: Sensors (2023). DOI: 10.3390/s23177451Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York’s Motion Analysis Research Laboratory have developed an app to help study and prevent falls in older adults. Their research is published...
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS IMAGE: RESEARCHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HAVE DEVELOPED A NEW APP THAT’S BEEN SHOWN ALREADY TO HELP STUDENTS LIVING WITH AN EATING DISORDER, ONE OF THE DEADLIEST MENTAL ILLNESSES. THE BEST-U APP’S USER INTERFACE INCLUDES VIDEOS, INTERACTIVE QUIZZES, SHORT QUESTIONS AND SURVEYS TO TRACK PROGRESS EACH WEEK. CREDIT: KELSIE FORBUSH LAWRENCE...
by Josslyn Johnstone and Sean Bettam, University of Toronto With an easy-to-use interface, HippoCamera is a personalized way to boost recall of daily experiences and enhance activity in the hippocampus, a part of the brain that plays a key role in memory. Credit: Dynamic Memory Solutions Inc. Researchers at the University of Toronto have demonstrated...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO IMAGE: A SMARTPHONE USER CAN IMAGE THE EYE USING THE RGB SELFIE CAMERA AND THE FRONT-FACING NEAR-INFRARED CAMERA INCLUDED FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION. MEASUREMENTS FROM THIS IMAGING COULD BE USED TO ASSESS THE USER’S COGNITIVE CONDITION. CREDIT: DIGITAL HEALTH LAB Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed...
by The Scripps Research Institute Scientists at the Scripps Research Translational Institute developed the MyGeneRank mobile app that can provide study participants with their unique genetic risk score for coronary artery disease. Credit: Scripps Research A Scripps Research team has developed a smartphone app that can calculate users’ genetic risk for coronary artery disease (CAD)—and...
By Nicole Wetsman Feb 17, 2022, 11:08am EST Photo Illustration by Matt Harbicht/Getty Images for Tandem Diabetes Care The Food and Drug Administration cleared a smartphone app from Tandem Diabetes Care to program insulin delivery for its t: slim X2 insulin pump, the company announced Wednesday. It’s the first phone app for both iOS and Android to...
by University of Washington Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new blood-clotting test that uses only a single drop of blood and a smartphone vibration motor and camera. The system includes a plastic attachment that holds a tiny cup of blood beneath the phone’s camera (shown here). Note: This photo simulates how...
by Society for the Study of Addiction Credit: CC0 Public Domain Smoking is a major health problem among Black or African American adults, but few tools are tailored to help them quit. The iCanQuit smartphone application was more effective than a more conventional smartphone application (QuitGuide) at getting Black US adults who smoke to quit...
by Duke University Medical Center Credit: Shawn Rocco, Duke University Medical Center A digital app successfully detected one of the telltale characteristics of autism in young children, suggesting the technology could one day become an inexpensive and scalable early screening tool, researchers at Duke University report. The research team created the app to assess the eye gaze patterns...
by Lachlan Gilbert, University of New South Wales Credit: Shutterstock Testing for dementia among elderly could one day be as simple as talking into a smartphone thanks to speech-analyzing technology being developed by engineers at UNSW Sydney. An app that uses machine learning technology will look at paralinguistic features of a person’s speech—such as prosody, pitch,...
