Sian Allen
@DrSianAllen
Blending data, science, tech & art to answer human performance, health & well-being questions. Tweets: wearable tech, data analytics, sport science.
I wore an Oura ring & a Whoop band on the same hand/wrist for ~12 months. Here's everything I found... 🧵 TLDR: - Whoop isn't accurate enough to be useful. I took it off. - Oura is better. I'm still wearing it. - Beware readiness/recovery scores - raw data are more insightful.
If you're looking for a new role in industry innovation, this one is pretty cool...! careers.lululemon.com/en_US/careers/…
Sports technology is for fans as much as athletes. Imagine being at a live sports event and being able to see an augmented reality overlay of a player’s real-time game stats, or even heart rate or GPS data. It looks like things might be going that way 👇
The future of Sport Science jobs?! Informing the creation of athlete digital twins for personalized training, performance & nutrition recommendations. Looks like a neat role: linkedin.com/jobs/view/3928…
The future of wearables... Doctors prescribing devices to people to track their health and provide physical activity recommendations. It's a great use case, but... it makes it even more important that we have people who properly understand the data from these devices, and can…