Topic

Wearable devices

Body-worn sensors and computers, from smart watches and rings to research-grade accelerometers and inclinometers, that record movement and physiological signals.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

Drug trials collecting wearable data climbed to 128 in 2024 from fewer than 30 a decade earlier

Researchers at Mount Sinai counted drug trials collecting wearable data on ClinicalTrials.gov, and ten years of growth turned out to be gradual, with the researchers quoted by Nature split on whether sensor capability or validation work is the holdup.

Publishers:nature.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption48
Hype gap+12
Incentives68
Confidence52

science1 publisher

Consumer wearables hand health trials a step count shaped by a black-box algorithm

Wuyoh Sui's group swapped research-grade thigh sensors for step counts pulled from participants' own phone apps, and he told Nature that the substitution handed his lab algorithms and data handling it cannot inspect.

Publishers:nature.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption30
Hype gap+8
Incentives38
Confidence55