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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2017 Dec 14;77:120–132. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2017.12.008

Table 4.

Summary of general health and wellbeing studies, ordered by year of publication.

Author (Year) Study Purpose Principal Findings Sensors Used Sample Size & Type Study Length (Days)
Rabbi et al. (2015a) [55] USA Evaluate the generation of recommendations for calorie loss from accelerometer and location data, using personalized vs. generic recommendations Group with personalized suggestions performed better on physical activity and dietary behavior than control. • Accelerometer
• GPS
17
University students and non-students
21
Rabbi et al. (2015b) [54] USA Evaluate the generation of recommendations for calorie loss from accelerometer and location data Significant increase in physical activity and decrease in calorie consumption when participants received personalized recommendations. • Accelerometer
• GPS
16
University students and non-students
98
Eskes et al. (2016) [42] Netherlands Predict sociability from smartphone data Weak relationship between smartphone use and overall sociability assessments. • Application usage
• Bluetooth
• Call logs
• GPS
10
University students
11.4*
Kelly et al. (2017) [47] UK Predict health status from accelerometer data Prediction of health status with a mean absolute error of 11.7, using a support vector machine classifier. • Accelerometer 171
General sample
4.8*

GPS: Global Positioning System;

*

average duration of subject participation.