Wearable Devices: Applications, Consumer Issues, App Functions, Ethics, Security And Privacy

What are Wearable Devices and General Applications

1. What are wearable devices and Provide several examples of general applications of wearable devices?

2. Describe some of the consumer-related issues that are mentioned in this article and Briefly discuss possible solutions to the issues?

3.Explore some of the apps for wearable devices using the links below. Describe the specific functions of a few of the apps?

4.Ethics and new technologies. Read several of the articles below and discuss the ethical issues related to wearable devices. Use the appropriate method  for referencing in all cases?

5.Read the following articles and discuss security and privacy issues related to wearables and data sharing?

1. Wearable devices: The wearable or wearable devices are mobile computing electronic technologies that can be worn by the users comfortably. The devices are often connected to the computer or mobile devices through wireless communication medium so that tracking of physiological function and biofeedback can be facilitated. Distance walked, calories burnt, pulse, heart rate and many more fitness associated activities are tracked though the activity tracker wearable devices. Smart watch is another wearable device that remains connected with the mobile devices wirelessly. This devices allows the user to read/send messages, answer calls, play music, browse web, accessing applications and many more activities without touching the phone. Smartglasses or smart eyewear are the wearable eye-glasses.

Examples of general applications of wearable devices: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in located Boston. Doctors within the ED or Emergency Department of the medical center, functioning with Wearable Intelligence, a San Francisco-based firm, are navigating a altered performance of Google Glass for looking into records of the patient. Wearable Intelligence has constructed a convention application that blocks  online networking elements of Glass and bolts within the remedial competence’s Wi-Fi network. Pediatric Surgery Division’s physicians were invited for submitting a proposal in terms of their telementoring project for exploring in the initial wave of the project. These students of the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover and New York Medical College, carried out a investigative study on the utilization of Google Glass.

In order to provide higher education is various government and institutions are depending on Google glass. Through using the glass, the learner can take part in as a participant, reporter and observer simultaneously.  It enables more detailed life-blogging. It also offers a subjective point of view in terms of storytelling.

At present days, the various libraries all around the world are using the wearable devices creatively. The present applications of the wearable technologies in the Libraries are various. Through establishing partnership with the ITG or Instructional Technology Group, Yale University’s Bass Library is making extensive use of the Google glass. In addition, wearable innovation’s another adopter is Claremont College’s Library. This library is a association of five autonomous undergrad human sciences schools and two graduate establishments arranged on connecting grounds. The Colleges have six thousands and nine hundred students and there thousand and six hundred personnel and staff. Claremont’s one of the administrators was got the invitation to join the second wave of Google Explorers.

Consumer-Related Issues and Possible Solutions

A sensor is implemented within the user’s body for gathering information regarding nutritional parameters. These data are sent to cloud storage so that the data could be analyzed and diet related suggestions could be provided to them.

Consumer related issues	Description	Solutions
Rich technological functions instead of good looks	The consumers are supposed to wear the devices on their body. For this reason the look of the devices have to good. The look of the device does not complement users desired looks.	The wearable device manufactures must consider the look of the device before its technical functions to be successful in the market. So to draw in a standard group of onlookers, the wearables advertise needs to concentrate more on how its items look before their innovative capacities. It’s coming to the heart of the matter where mold and execution of that apparel start things out and the way that it’s keen, gives you some input or measures some mechanical parameters is an auxiliary thing. One reason for this distinction between the innovation market and buyer well known outlines is an absence of plan aptitudes on the designing side of wearables and the other way around in significant form brands. To defeat this, Drinkwater trusts architects with both aptitudes would help the wearables business make that progress.

1.Glass Copter: In this game the player have to fly a helicopter. The game provide various obstacles in the path of the helicopter. The display remains in front of the eyes. The user has to avoid those obstacles through moving the head.

2.Tesco Grocery: This is an online grocery shopping application. The application allows the user to scan a product’s barcode with the use of Google Glass built-in camera (Brewis, 2017).

IFTTT:  This liberated system exists for making users online activities less demanding, mechanizing the assignments user frequently carry out activity over an extensive variety of well known applications and administrations.

Wearable Fitness Application:

1.Moov Now: This application incorporates five distinct applications for meeting the need of the walkers and runners. The application offers the user different levels so that users can challenge themselves. The best part of the application that its tracking mechanism can be referred to as an actionable part of user’s run (Wearable Technologies, 2017).

2.Adidas miCoach: The applications functionalities are associated with the application within the smart phone. The application has voice coaching functionality. The functions of the wearable can be connected to the mobile application through the use of Bluetooth.

Apple Wearable:

1.Apple Watch Apps: Presently Watch clients have a decision of transport applications on their Watch. The inherent Maps application from Apple is still the most adaptable on account of great maps, headings and now open transport alternatives in a few urban areas like London. Be that as it may, Google’s answer is clear and alluring. It gives headings (however not maps) for two goals, home and work, but rather will likewise indicate courses as of late took after on your telephone (Best Apple Watch apps for your smartwatch in 2016, 2017).

2.Sleep++: The sleep monitor application works when you keep the Watch on around evening time. This may mean a few clients need to switch the reviving cycle to first thing in the morning, however as the Watch charges rapidly this may not be an issue.

4. There are tremendous security and moral ramifications around wearable innovation. The market regarding entire innovation is ready for developing from one and a half billion to five billion dollars In any case, as its utilization turns out to be more far reaching, businesses should set up strategies representing how staff utilize the innovation. Taken as an example, if a man wears Google Glass recordings a meeting with different representatives, that could be translated as tormenting (ComputerWeekly, 2017).

It is anything but difficult to perceive how innovation can change the way doctors rehearse drug and this can raise a couple of moral concerns additionally fortify some key ideas in cutting edge pharmaceutical, the first is independence. With this forward data, patients will be able to settle on educated choices while picking the fitting administration for their condition (Trinity News | Ireland’s Oldest Student Paper, 2017). Since an individual must be viewed as self-sufficient if their choices are not restricted by lacking data or comprehension, this is an extraordinary instrument towards a superior self-sufficiency of the patient.

Apps for Wearable Devices and Specific Functions

That kind of move will undoubtedly occur with the up and coming era of destined to-be universal innovation: wearables, particularly head-mounted ones like Google Glass that depend on augmented reality (AR) to convey data. In any case, not before society all in all thinks about the new arrangement of difficulties such devices will convey to open life, individual security, and our associations with the organizations and specialist assumes that will have entry to more true information than any time in recent memory (CNET, 2017). The social designing parts of expanded the truth are similarly as imperative as the PC building viewpoints. Directed by Scientific American Senior Editor Seth Fletcher, the discussion wandered from the plan and building difficulties of AR and wearables to more scholarly inquiries. It ended up taking a gander at the moral issues postured by having gadgets flooding with new and advising information strapped to our appearances at all circumstances and evolving, truly, how we see the world (Dame, 2017).

5. Spy Gear: Secret expert advancement exceptionally created in Television from the years 1960 is getting to be to be much more a reality as contraptions continue saturating standard culture and current business. Wearable contraptions allow customers to adequately and sagaciously get video and sound. As general things, for instance, watches and eyeglasses are changed into wearable sharp contraptions, it gets the chance to be unmistakably difficult to abbreviate surveillance and shield information got from the photos assembled. Wearables tend to be nearly nothing and more thoughtful, which makes it less requesting than at whatever time in late memory to take data sensitive information (Itbusinessedge.com, 2017).

Data Protection: The way that numerous wearables store information on the neighborhood gadget without encryption is a main problem. There’s regularly no PIN or secret key assurance, no biometric security and no client validation required to get to information on a wearable (Itbusinessedge.com, 2017). In the event that it falls into the wrong hands, there’s a hazard that touchy information could be gotten to effortlessly.

Weak Wi-Fi connection: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth link among wearable devices and connected smart phones is a different region of exposure for enterprise information. Presently, BitDefender, a security firm, revealed that the Bluetooth connection among smartphones and Android devices might be considered as decoded using brute-force attacks (Itbusinessedge.com, 2017).

References

Best Apple Watch apps for your smartwatch in 2016, (2017). Best Apple Watch apps for your smartwatch in 2016. [online] Available at: https://www.in.techradar.com/news/wearables/Best-Apple-Watch-apps-for-your-smartwatch-in-2016/articleshow/45993206.cms [Accessed 27 Jan. 2017].

Brewis, (2017). Best apps for Google Glass 2015 UK: Our pick of the best Google Glassware. [online] PC Advisor. Available at: https://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/gadget/best-apps-for-google-glass-our-pick-of-best-google-glassware-2015-uk-3581869/ [Accessed 27 Jan. 2017].

CNET. (2017). Wearables with augmented reality are mind-blowing — and an ethical nightmare. [online] Available at: https://www.cnet.com/news/wearables-with-augmented-reality-are-mind-blowing-and-an-ethical-nightmare/#ptlink.fid=5086&isc=1&did=bookmark.423d976a8f08ed546f2cc88c14438d3d22086fbf&ctp=article%0D [Accessed 27 Jan. 2017].

ComputerWeekly. (2017). Wearable technology creates new privacy issues for employers. [online] Available at: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240223173/Wearable-technology-new-privacy-headaches-for-employers [Accessed 27 Jan. 2017].

Dame, R. (2017). Wearable technology // John J. Reilly Center // University of Notre Dame. [online] Reilly.nd.edu. Available at: https://reilly.nd.edu/outreach/emerging-ethical-dilemmas-and-policy-issues-in-science-and-technology-2015/wearable-technology/ [Accessed 27 Jan. 2017].

Itbusinessedge.com. (2017). Five Potential Security Concerns Related to Wearables. [online] Available at: https://www.itbusinessedge.com/slideshows/five-potential-security-concerns-related-to-wearables.html [Accessed 27 Jan. 2017].

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Trinity News | Ireland’s Oldest Student Paper. (2017). Wearable devices in medicine: ethical and legal implications. [online] Available at: https://trinitynews.ie/wearable-devices-in-medicine-ethical-and-legal-implications/ [Accessed 27 Jan. 2017].

Wearable Technologies. (2017). The Best Wearable Fitness Apps. [online] Available at: https://www.wearable-technologies.com/2015/10/the-best-wearable-fitness-apps/ [Accessed 27 Jan. 2017].