Generation of a Free-Living Ground-Truth Validation Dataset for Wearable Measures of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Sleep, and Heart Rate in Adults (OxWEARS): Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study
Benjamin D Maylor, Scott R Small, Tatiana Plekhanova, Laura Brocklebank, Stefan van Duijvenboden, Rachel Sharman, Elizabeth A Hill, Fredrik Karpe, Simon D Kyle, Aiden Doherty · 2025
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Benjamin D Maylor and co-authors lay out a study to build a ground-truth library for wearable health trackers. Wrist and body sensors now claim to measure activity, sitting, sleep, and heart rate all day, but most checks happen in labs, on narrow groups, with weak yardsticks. OxWEARS will instead follow about one hundred sixty adults aged forty and up through three days and four nights of ordinary life.
Participants will wear sensors at five body sites, wrist, chest, hip, thigh, and ankle. Camera records, lab sleep studies, and chest heart tracings supply the truth to grade each site against. The cleaned, anonymized dataset goes open access, so device makers and researchers can train and test their algorithms on real life rather than treadmills.
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| CREATOR | Benjamin D Maylor, Scott R Small, Tatiana Plekhanova, Laura Brocklebank, Stefan van Duijvenboden, Rachel Sharman, Elizabeth A Hill, Fredrik Karpe, Simon D Kyle, Aiden Doherty |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |