"Smartphone and Wearables" Digital Culture Speaker Series Presentation with Matthew Buman

Smartphone and Wearables: Disease detection and health promotion across the 24 hours

Health behaviors such as sleep, sedentary behavior, and physical activity make up the 24 hours and are inextricably related. When we do more of one, we must do less of another. Wearable technologies have exploded in popularity and offer a unique opportunity to best understand the dynamic interplay among these behaviors. ASU professor Matthew Buman will discuss the validity of consumer- and research-grade accelerometers and provide some case studies for how these sensors may be useful to enhance health behavior research, improve public health, and complement existing clinical services aims to improve health. 

Buman is an assistant professor of exercise science and health promotion at Arizona State University. He received his doctorate in applied physiology and kinesiology and completed his postdoctoral work in the Stanford University School of Medicine. His research program focuses on the dynamic interplay of sleep, sedentary and more active behaviors, and how collectively these behaviors can be harnessed for chronic disease prevention. His current work focuses on evidence-based strategies for health behavior change, objective monitoring of lifestyle behaviors, and the use of technology for delivering health behavior change interventions.

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