Current State of Commercial Human Performance Technologies for Monitoring Soldier Physical Attributes, Workload, Sleep, and Recovery
Date: Wed 01 May
Time: 1500-1520
Location: Room 106-107 / 1st Floor
Speaker: Dr. Joshua Hagen, The Ohio State University
Description:
Consumer wearable devices are now a multi-billion dollar industry and offer much promise on impacting health, wellness, and performance of the Soldier. Even more advanced human performance (HP) technologies such as force plates, body composition devices, hydration sensors etc. are now commonplace in both military and athletics environments. However, with the influx of commercial technologies comes risk of understanding not only what to use for what purpose, but what is the overall accuracy and reliability of these technologies?
This presentation will cover key results from the multi-year ongoing collaboration between the Air Force Research Laboratory and The Ohio State University in “Gold Standard Validation Studies”, aimed at rapidly and scientifically assessing and reporting accuracy of commercial HP technologies for DoD applications. Specific technology areas that will be covered will be wearable devices for heart rate monitoring, heart rate variability, pulse oximetry, external movement, caloric expenditure, and VO2 max estimation. Additional technology areas will also include devices for hydration monitoring, body composition, and movement analysis.
The overall goal is to give the H2F audience a current snapshot of commercial device accuracy for technologies that could likely add value to the Physical, Mental, Nutrition, and Sleep domains of H2F, when selected and utilized correctly.