Dr Cailbhe Doherty
@DohertyCailbhe
Assistant Professor in UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Sport Science. Exploring the impact of wearable tech on public health.
How accurate are wearable fitness trackers? Less than you might think… via @ConversationUK theconversation.com/how-accurate-a… #NationalChallengeFund #NextGenerationEU
⌚️🏃♀️ Opinion - How trustworthy is your fitness tracker score? 🏋️♀️ "Fitness trackers can still offer valuable insights. Watching how your core physiological signals shift over time — from week to week or season to season — can help you spot patterns, improve habits and better…
1st publication of my PhD is available in @BJSM_BMJ 🥇 Machine learning approaches to injury risk prediction in sport: a scoping review with evidence synthesis 🤖⚽️🏀 Thanks to co-authors @EamonnDelahunt,@NicolvanDyk,@DohertyCailbhe,@aonghuslawlor Link: bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…
Read our latest #research on the accuracy of #WearableTech, published in @SportsMedicineJ. "Keeping Pace with Wearables: A Living Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews Evaluating the Accuracy of Consumer Wearable Technologies in Health Measurement" rdcu.be/dPv9Q
🫀 HRV: does it actually reflect how you feel? We tracked 41 people for 14 days. ✅ HRV linked to feeling better. ❌ Not linked to soreness. ⚠️ HRV varied up to 70% day to day. 🎥 Watch the explainer: youtu.be/E_SJ1Lj5B6Y 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.3390/s25144… @Sensors_MDPI
How accurate are consumer wearables at tracking your health? 💡 Our living umbrella review updates the evidence every year — just 3.5% of devices have been validated. 🧠 Latest findings on HR, sleep, EE, step count, and more: 🔗 osf.io/fqvms/ 📖 rdcu.be/dPv9Q
📱 Can You Trust Apple Watch for HRV? 🧠 Heart rate variability (HRV) is a powerful marker of stress and recovery—but how accurate is the Apple Watch at measuring it? 🎥 Watch the full breakdown: youtu.be/kJhDe53pU1s
Like me, are you a bit obsessed with your smartwatch?⌚️I love all the data. But, is it accurate? We put fitness trackers to the test, on CrowdScience with @DohertyCailbhe @UCD_Research @tybferguson @DALupton Producer: @joglanville1 Editor: @owlglass bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
What are the privacy implications of using consumer wearables (#fitbit #garmin) in your research? Full video: youtu.be/YauUhUjb7nM?si…
So much about healthcare involves education—but very little research has been conducted looking at how we educate our patients. This review highlights the current ‘state of play’ in educational multimedia for healthcare, and what needs to happen next…
📲💻 Using multimedia resources to teach patients? 📹🖥 It took a while to comb through 160 included studies, but check our Sys Review finally published with JMIR. Thanks to @DohertyCailbhe and team in @ucd_sphpss for their help! (infographic below) rehab.jmir.org/2024/1/e48154
📲💻 Using multimedia resources to teach patients? 📹🖥 It took a while to comb through 160 included studies, but check our Sys Review finally published with JMIR. Thanks to @DohertyCailbhe and team in @ucd_sphpss for their help! (infographic below) rehab.jmir.org/2024/1/e48154
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is recognised as a marker of autonomic stress—it’s used in the @WHOOP strain score, and the ‘readiness’ scores provided by @Garmin and @ouraring. But what about #AppleWatch? Our latest study validates the Series 9 and Ultra 2 for HRV measurement:
🔍 Our new review identifies 6 challenges for wearables in sports and health: 1) Accuracy 2) Access 3) Safety 4) User engagement 5) Cybersecurity 6) Privacy Tackling these is key to maximising their impact. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1055/a-2376…
A wearable sensor band that uses microfluidics to analyze sweat pH and lactate during exercise, potentially a metric for promoting or quantifying level of physical fitness science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @ScienceTM
Did you know that less than 5% of the fitness trackers that have been released to date have been validated for the range of health signals they purport to measure? Some devices were 120% out when it came to measuring sleep! Find out more 👉 theconversation.com/how-accurate-a… #health
“Of the ~310 wearables released to date, <3.5% have been validated for at least one outcome” How accurate are wearables for measuring HR, sleep, energy expenditure etc? See summary below. Link to full article: rdcu.be/dPv9Q #NationalChallengeFund #NextGenerationEU
Now available online: Our invited review and viewpoint on current and future developments of wearable technology for exercise and health professionals: thieme-connect.com/products/ejour… @DohertyCailbhe @spomedtuc
👏 👏 Congratulations to Clia and Orgo, the two start-ups named winners of the 2024 NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition. Following pitches to a judging panel, Clia, a medtech start-up, won the €3k Tech Sustainability Prize, sponsored by Terra Solar, and Orgo, an edtech…