The use of wearable technology in a sample of Portuguese population

Abstract

Wearable technology is increasing and have radically altered how we live our lives today. Personal wearable systems offer real-time feedback, (Lamont, Daniel, Payne, & Brauer, 2018) which enable people to evaluate several parameters: range of movement, meters or number of steps in a day, walking speed, burnt calories, heart rate, and sleeping hours and also give feedback on physical activity (Lamont et al., 2018). Despite the potential and the wide range of wearables available, there is little knowledge about the interest, usage and preferences for using wearables (Stephanie Alley & Mitch J Duncan, 2016), even the efficacy for using wearables in physical activity promotion. This study aimed to investigate the use of wearable technology in Portugal, in particular how often people use it and how they use it to monitor exercise/physical activity. ; This project was supported by the National Funds through FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (UID/DTP/0445/2013) and the European Fund for regional development (FEDER? allocated by European Union through the COMPETE 2020 Programme (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006969) ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion