{"id":90234,"date":"2025-08-17T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90234\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:46:07","slug":"wsu-study-uses-smartwatch-data-and-ai-to-better-understand-everyday-activities-kiro-7-news-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90234\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU study uses smartwatch data and AI to better understand everyday activities \u2013 KIRO 7 News Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) have developed an algorithm that uses smartwatch data to identify everyday activities with 77.7% accuracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">The study, published in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, aims to improve the assessment and understanding of cognitive health, rehabilitation, disease management, and surgical recovery, according to a release from WSU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">\u201cIf we want to determine whether somebody needs caregiving assistance in their home or elsewhere and what level of assistance, then we need to know how well the person can perform critical activities,\u201d said Diane Cook, WSU Regents Professor in WSU\u2019s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, who led the work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">The research involved collecting activity information over several years from 503 participants, resulting in a dataset of more than 32 million labeled data points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">Participants were asked at random times throughout the day to select from a list of 12 categories describing their current activity, such as working, eating, or running errands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">The researchers analyzed various AI methods to generalize activity recognition across the study population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">The work was funded by the National Institutes of Health and aims to lay the foundation for more advanced, behavior-aware applications in digital health and human-centered AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) have developed an algorithm that uses smartwatch data to identify everyday activities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-90234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}