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“IoT”
Published in Brojo Kishore Mishra, Sanjay Kumar Kuanar, Sheng-Lung Peng, Daniel D. Dasig, Handbook of IoT and Blockchain, 2020
Subhashree Sahoo, Debabrata Dansana, Raghvendra Kumar
A smart watch is a wearable innovation as a wristwatch; present-day smart watches give a close-by contact screen interface to step by step use, while a related cell phone application obliges the officials and telemetry. While early models could perform principal assignments, for instance, calculations, propelled time telling, elucidations, and delight playing, 2010s smart watches have progressively expansive convenience closer to cell phones, including compact applications, adaptable working frameworks, and Wi-Fi or Bluetooth organize. Some smart watches function as helpful media players, with FM radio and playback of cutting-edge sound and video records through a Bluetooth headset. A couple of models, called ‘watch phones’ have adaptable cell convenience like making calls. The product may consolidate propelled maps, calendars, and individual facilitators, number crunchers, and various sorts of watch faces. The watch may talk with external contraptions, for instance, sensors, remote headsets, or a heads-up introduction. Like various PCs, a smart watch may accumulate information from the inside or outside sensors and it may control, or recuperate data from, various instruments or PCs. It may support remote advancements, for instance, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS. For certain reasons, a watch computer fills in as a front end for remote frameworks, for instance, a cell phone, talking with the PDA using distinctive remote advancements. Smart watches are advancing, especially their arrangement, battery point of confinement, and prosperity related applications. [2,5]
An Introduction to Mobile Data Visualization
Published in Bongshin Lee, Raimund Dachselt, Petra Isenberg, Eun Kyoung Choe, Mobile Data Visualization, 2021
Ricardo Langner, Lonni Besançon, Christopher Collins, Tim Dwyer, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg, Bongshin Lee, Charles Perin, Christian Tominski
Far from the pixelized black and white devices they used to be, smartwatches are becoming powerful computing devices. Despite their small screen size, (high-end) smartwatches can display colorful images at a high resolution (often more than 150 pixels per cm). They are equipped with a state-of-the-art GPS and several on-device sensors, such as accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer. They can be connected to other devices to retrieve and display a wider range of information, including emails, calendar events, and phone call history. This plethora of data being available on smartwatches is a great opportunity for visualization. Smartwatches offer various faces and widgets for people to customize what data to show and how to show them.
NR: Architecture, Protocol, Challenges, and Applications
Published in Mangesh M. Ghonge, Ramchandra Sharad Mangrulkar, Pradip M. Jawandhiya, Nitin Goje, Future Trends in 5G and 6G, 2021
Virendra A. Uppalwar, Trupti S. Pandilwar
In 5G, we have a new category of user devices. Users are not stuck with a mobile phone, they have the option of wearable devices and entertainment devices. Many powerful smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smart goggles, AR/VR devices make use of 5G technology. The smartwatch equipped with a special user identity, global positioning system, camera, audio recorder, and all-time internet connectivity options is very attractive and the best option for daily use. Users can communicate through message, email, call using a smartwatch. That is why users are always under a security threat.
The smart wearables-privacy paradox: A cluster analysis of smartwatch users
Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2021
Smartwatches can perform many tasks, such as phone calls, texting, emails and social media use, just as hand-held communication devices (e.g. smart phones) generally do. However, smartwatches can also surpass the functionality of smartphones or tablets due to their enhanced sensors and scanning features. Leveraging the wearable aspect of the technology, smartwatches are capable of providing biofeedback and tracking various activities and health-related data with minimal effort on the part of users (Wright and Keith 2014). For example, smartwatches enable users to easily, yet precisely track and monitor their health-related measures, including physical activity, sleep and breathing patterns, and distances covered. Further, smartwatches allow more instant and flexible access to communication and information; users can make and answer phone calls, and check and send texts, instantly without picking up the phone. Smartwatches combining the smart wearable technologies with advances in information and communication technologies create an environment that offers more convenient, flexible and faster communication (Kim and Shin 2015). The multifunctionality of smartwatches equipped with enhanced access to communication and information and a highly personalised experience also appeals to users across a wide array of interests.
Social comparison and continuance intention of smart fitness wearables: an extended expectation confirmation theory perspective
Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2021
Anil Gupta, Neeraj Dhiman, Anish Yousaf, Neelika Arora
The global market for smart wearable devices (including smart watches, fitness wristbands and ear wears) is witnessing exponential growth, growing at an annual rate of 7.9%, with global sales expected to reach 302 million units by 20231 (IDC Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, June 2019). The smart wearable device is defined ‘as a user worn accessory, with integrated electronics and computing technologies, that captures or reports on some form of data’ (Puri 2017). Smart wearables ranging from smart glasses, smart shoes, smart watches, smart eyewears and even implantable multi-location sensors work on sensors, which are directly connected to the internet, with the purpose of sharing valuable information (Pal et al. 2019). Smart fitness wearables (smart watches and fitness trackers/wristbands) constitute approximately 60% of the overall market and are popular among people of all age groups (Canhoto and Arp 2017), because of their multi-functionality and as extended communication device with smart features (Fang and Chang 2016; Dehghani 2018). A smartwatch is defined as ‘a wrist-worn device with computational power, which can connect to other devices via short range wireless connectivity; provides alert notifications; collects personal data through a range of sensors and stores them’ (Wu, Wu, and Chang 2016). Similarly, fitness trackers is defined as ‘devices that are designed for private users and worn on the body as small digital devices with biometrical sensors to continuously generate physical health information (PHI) without the need for health professionals’ (Becker et al. 2017).
The effects of design, size, and uniqueness of smartwatches: perspectives from current versus potential users
Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2019
The smartwatch is defined as a multifunctional wrist-worn device that provides fast, convenient access to information and applications via a wireless/Bluetooth connection. Applications such as personal organisers, schedulers, digital maps, and music players can be installed to operate on smartwatches. Since the 1980s, wearable devices have long played an important role in performing basic communication tasks as well as running mobile applications (Hsiao 2017). The first digital wristwatch was introduced in 1972 with the debut of the Hamilton Pulsar P1. After several decades of technological advancement, smartwatches have extended the functions of smartphones to a more intimate level. Smartwatches utilise a variety of operating systems, including WatchOS, Android Wear, and Tizen, with market shares of 52.3%, 22.9%, and 12.7%, respectively (IDC Research 2016).