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Assessing actimeters for inclusion in the Healthy Brain Network

View ORCID ProfileJonathan Clucas, Curt White, Bonhwang Koo, View ORCID ProfileMichael Milham, View ORCID ProfileArno Klein
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/183772
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Background The Healthy Brain Network is an openly shared pediatric psychiatric biobank with a target of 10,000 participants between the ages of 5 and 21, inclusively In adding ecological actimetry to the Healthy Brain Network, we intend to use appropriate, accurate, reliable tools. Currently a wide range of personal activity trackers are commercially available, providing a wide variety of sensor configurations. For many of these devices, accelerometry provides the basis of measuring both physical activity and sleep with comparable derivative measures.

Results In order to include an ecological biotracker in the Healthy Brain Network protocol, we first evaluated the specifications of a variety of actimeters available for purchase. We then acquired physical instances of 5 of these devices (ActiGraph wGT3X-BT, Empatica Embrace, Empatica E4, GENEActiv Original, and Wavelet Wristband) and wore each of them in our daily lives, annotating our activities and evaluating the reasonableness of the data from each device and the logistical affordances of each device.

Conclusions We decided that the ActiGraph wGT3X-BT is the most appropriate device for inclusion in the Healthy Brain Network. However, none of the devices we evaluated was clearly superior or inferior to the rest; rather, each device seems to have use cases in which that device excels beyond the others.

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Jonathan Clucas, Curt White, Bonhwang Koo, Michael Milham, Arno Klein
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Jonathan Clucas, Curt White, Bonhwang Koo, Michael Milham, Arno Klein
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