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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics
  • Wearable Technology

Background:

  • Modern wearable devices like Apple Watch and Fitbit enable continuous heart rate monitoring.
  • This data holds potential for medical research and e-health applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a mobile application for extracting and analyzing heart rate profiles from continuous time series data.
  • To enable the analysis of exercise-associated heart rate changes under free-living conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Development of an iOS application named Hactive.
  • Extraction of heart rate data from Apple smartwatches.
  • Analysis of continuous heart rate time series to construct heart rate profiles.

Main Results:

  • Hactive successfully extracts heart rate data and constructs profiles.
  • The app can detect and analyze exercise-induced heart rate variations.
  • Heart rate profiles are generated based on data collected during free-living conditions.

Conclusions:

  • Hactive advances the use of wearable technology for collecting physiological big data.
  • The tool supports healthcare and medical research by providing detailed heart rate insights.
  • The application's source code is available under an open-source license.