Incorporating Wearable Technology for Cognitive Research
Open Access
- Author:
- Roudabush, Emma Jesse
- Area of Honors:
- Computer Science
- Degree:
- Bachelor of Science
- Document Type:
- Thesis
- Thesis Supervisors:
- Dr. John Joseph Hannan, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. John Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
Lee David Coraor, Faculty Reader - Keywords:
- Applications
App Development
Apple Watch
iOS
Apple
Subjective Cognitive Impairment
Wearable Technology
iPhone - Abstract:
- Smartwatches have been the latest and rapidly growing area of wearable technology. With their small size, they easily allow users to quickly interact with technology throughout the day. As the technology for smartwatches advances and becomes even more sophisticated, people look towards pushing the limits of this technology for use in various spaces. One of these areas is data collection for research efforts. This thesis proposes to enhance research efforts into subjective cognitive impairment (SCI) by creating an application for the Apple Watch to record and gather subject data. PSU Memory Tracker (or PSU MemTrack) is a dual Apple Watch and iPhone application handling the data collection and compilation for future studies of SCI. Written in Apple’s Swift programming language, the app runs on Apple’s watchOS 2 and iOS version 9. The goal of this project was to create a functional prototype with options to expand and grow the project. Based on the project’s requirements, there were many considerations that needed to be made during the design and development of both sides of the application, especially in the relatively volatile environment of the Apple Watch and watchOS.