BodyMedia
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{{Infobox company
| name = BodyMedia
| logo = BodyMedia logo.jpg
| logo_size = 180px
| type = Delaware Corporation
| foundation = 1999
| founder = John Stivoric (CTO)
Astro Teller
Chris Pacione
Chris Kasabach
| key_people = Christine Robins (CEO)
John Stivoric (CTO)
Jay Katarincic (Chairman)
| industry = Technology, weight management, health care
| location = Pittsburgh
| num_employees = 60
| homepage = [http://www.BodyMedia.com www.BodyMedia.com]
}}
BodyMedia was a medical and consumer technology company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Incorporated in 1999, BodyMedia developed wearable body monitoring systems. In April 2013, BodyMedia was acquired by Jawbone for an estimated $100 million.{{cite web|title=Jawbone Acquires BodyMedia For Over $100 Million To Give It An Edge In Wearable Health Tracking|url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/30/jawbone-will-acquire-bodymedia-for-over-100-million-to-give-it-an-edge-in-wearable-health-tracking/|publisher=TechCrunch|date=30 April 2014}}
History
=Wearable device=
BodyMedia staff published some of the first research on wearability of devices in 1998{{cite web|title=Design For Wearability|url=http://gtubicomp.pbworks.com/f/gemperle-wearability.pdf}} and detecting activity context using accelerometers in 1999{{cite book|chapter=Wearable sensor badge and sensor jacket for context awareness|doi=10.1109/ISWC.1999.806681 |isbn=0-7695-0428-0 |title=Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers |year=1999 |last1=Farringdon |first1=J. |last2=Moore |first2=A.J. |last3=Tilbury |first3=N. |last4=Church |first4=J. |last5=Biemond |first5=P.D. |pages=107–113 |s2cid=12251548 }} at the 2nd and 3rd IEEE sponsored International Symposium on Wearable Computers. The BodyMedia informatics group made available a large anonymised human physiology data set for the 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning, running a Machine Learning Challenge.{{cite web|title=ICML competition and workshop on Physiological Data Modeling|url=http://www.mail-archive.com/uai@cs.orst.edu/msg02915.html}} They published about their very large data set and data modeling methodology at the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence conference in 2011 winning the IAAI Deployed Application award.{{cite web|title=Machine Learning and Sensor Fusion for Estimating Continuous Energy Expenditure|url=http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/IAAI/IAAI-11/paper/view/3533/4018|access-date=2012-04-27|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113552/http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/IAAI/IAAI-11/paper/view/3533/4018|url-status=dead}}
=Clinical history=
Between 2001 and 2005, BodyMedia provided healthcare professionals with metabolic assessment and behavioral therapy products for the treatment of obesity, diabetes, and CVD. BodyMedia have been used in hundreds of clinical studies.{{cite web|title=BodyMedia Bibliography List|url=http://www.bodymedia.com/Professionals/Bibliography|publisher=BodyMedia|accessdate=12 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421130119/http://www.bodymedia.com/Professionals/Bibliography|archive-date=21 April 2012|url-status=dead}} The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies BodyMedia as a Class II Medical Device.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
BodyMedia was demonstrated to be accurate in comparison to the doubly labeled water method for measuring energy expenditure per day.{{cite journal|title=Accuracy of armband monitors for measuring daily energy expenditure in healthy adults| pmid=20386334 | doi=10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181e0b3ff | volume=42| issue=11 | journal=Med Sci Sports Exerc| pages=2134–40 | last1 = Johannsen | first1 = DL | last2 = Calabro | first2 = MA | last3 = Stewart | first3 = J | last4 = Franke | first4 = W | last5 = Rood | first5 = JC | last6 = Welk | first6 = GJ | year=2010| doi-access = free }} The mean absolute-percent difference per-person per-day in Kcalories was less than 10%.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} It was also shown that the standard WHO GPAQ survey underestimates physical activity bouts of at least 10 minutes.{{cite journal
| last = Laeremans
| first = M
| title = Physical activity and sedentary behaviour in daily life: A comparative analysis of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) and the SenseWear armband
| journal = PLOS ONE
| volume = 12
| issue = 5
| page = e0177765
| year = 2017
| doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0177765
| pmid = 28520781
| pmc = 5433749
| bibcode = 2017PLoSO..1277765L
| doi-access = free
}} The clinical and research software and armband were marketed under the "SenseWear" brand and have since been used e.g. to estimate exposure to air pollution in combination with other sensors.{{cite journal
| last = Dons
| first = E
| title = Wearable sensors for personal monitoring and estimation of inhaled traffic-related air pollution: evaluation of methods
| journal = Environmental Science and Technology
| volume = 51
| issue = 3
| pages = 1859–1867
| year = 2017
| url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312302821
| doi = 10.1021/acs.est.6b05782
| pmid = 28080048
| bibcode = 2017EnST...51.1859D
| hdl = 10044/1/45509
| s2cid = 206564587
| hdl-access = free
}}
=Consumer products=
BodyMedia sold a consumer software product for armband hardware starting in 2001.{{Cite web |date=January 8, 2001 |title=BodyMedia device shown at Cisco model home |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2001/01/08/daily4.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=www.bizjournals.com}} A consumer web site using BodyMedia armbands was branded; run in the US by "Dot Fit".{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} In the UK a consumer web site is branded and run by "Ki Performance".{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.bodymedia.com/ Official Website]
- [http://www.wirelesslifesciences.org/2011/05/summit-2011-coverage-i-award-winner-bodymedia/ Wireless Life Sciences]
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