Presentation
Participant Compliance When Wearing a Sleep-Tracking Ring for Extended Time Periods: Preliminary Results
DescriptionThe boom in wearable technology has made it much easier for the research community to assess health-related indices by monitoring psychophysiological signals on the body. The available information on participant compliance when wearing smart rings in naval settings is limited to studies of relatively short duration. This study assesses participant compliance when wearing Ōura rings for periods up to one year (182 participants, four military commands). Our results showed compliance followed a power decay function with substantive differences between commands. Overall compliance was ~40% after ~80 days of wearing the device and ~30% after ~125 days. The difference in compliance between the E1-E6 and the E7-O6 groups consistently increased up to two months after starting to wear the device, reaching 20% to 50% depending on the command. Personnel seniority and in-person interaction with researchers should be taken into consideration when conducting longitudinal studies in military environments.
Event Type
Lecture
TimeThursday, September 12th9:45am - 10:14am MST
LocationFLW Salon H
Usability and System Evaluation