Pebble Health's Intuitive Health Tracker Compares Personal Bests
Laura McQuarrie — December 18, 2015 — Lifestyle
References: blog.getpebble & techradar
There are now tons of health and fitness wearables to choose from, but Pebble Health stands out because of how much it helps users make sense of the data it tracks.
In the past, Pebble Health's wearables didn't track steps taken or hours of sleep accumulated, but a new firmware update makes this information easy to acquire and understand. When a user wakes up in the morning, they get a report on how much they slept. At night, the wearable's timeline also reveals a wrap-up of steps taken during the day. In order to ensure progress comes from self-motivation, Pebble Health measures all results against a person's averages. By graphing patterns over time, the intuitive wearable makes it easy to understand habits.
Since the wearable was developed in partnership with Stanford University, Pebble continues collaboration by giving the developer community access to its APIs.
In the past, Pebble Health's wearables didn't track steps taken or hours of sleep accumulated, but a new firmware update makes this information easy to acquire and understand. When a user wakes up in the morning, they get a report on how much they slept. At night, the wearable's timeline also reveals a wrap-up of steps taken during the day. In order to ensure progress comes from self-motivation, Pebble Health measures all results against a person's averages. By graphing patterns over time, the intuitive wearable makes it easy to understand habits.
Since the wearable was developed in partnership with Stanford University, Pebble continues collaboration by giving the developer community access to its APIs.
Trend Themes
1. Intuitive Health Tracker - Develop wearable technology that offers comprehensive data analysis and personal best comparisons for health and fitness tracking, such as those offered by Pebble Health.
2. Self-motivation Measurement - Develop measurement tools and strategies that allow individuals to track progress and measure results against their averages, such as those used by Pebble Health.
3. Collaboration with Developers - Develop partnerships between universities and tech companies to share APIs and jointly explore areas of technological innovation, as seen in collaboration between Pebble Health and Stanford University.
Industry Implications
1. Wearable Technology - Design and produce wearables that utilize personal best comparisons and intuitive data analysis to motivate and inform users who are tracking their health and fitness, building on the example set by Pebble Health.
2. Healthcare - Create new systems and tools for tracking and measuring health information that allow for self-motivation and personal best comparisons and integrate with wearable technology, utilizing approaches like those utilized by Pebble Health in collaboration with Stanford University.
3. Educational Technology - Partner with technology companies and developers to provide access to APIs and facilitate research collaboration to develop innovative technological solutions, drawing on the partnership between Pebble Health and Stanford University as an example.
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