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Sensor-embedded earphones paired with a smartphone integrate physiological sensing capabilities to facilitate everyday cardiovascular monitoring.
The Heartphones project proposes integrating physiological sensing into everyday earphones and smartphones to improve wearable biosensor adoption.
Earphone-based sensing may enable convenient daily CV monitoring; leaves open validation of accuracy, adherence, and clinical outcomes.
Many wearable biosensors have failed to be adopted outside of a lab setting or to gain popular acceptance. The Heartphones project seeks to address this by integrating physiological sensing capabilities into a platform already accepted for everyday use, exploiting sensor-embedded earphones and a smartphone.
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Poh et al. (2010) studied this question. Sensor-embedded earphones paired with a smartphone integrate physiological sensing capabilities to facilitate everyday cardiovascular monitoring.
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