High-Tech Health Behavior Change for Just $199
Sunday, December 2nd, 2012
Basis has designed a small-steps health behavior change program meant to fit into our daily lives. You wear a wrist tracking device that looks like a stylish watch. The device records optical blood flow to measure heart rate, the number of steps you take, perspiration to measure intensity of effort and skin temperature. All of these variables are tracked throughout the day and night, run through some algorithms and displayed in your personal health dashboard. The dashboard reveals calories burned and other calculated values as well as trends in the physiological measurements. From the patterns you can spot opportunities to add small-steps into your daily activities to get healthier. For example:
Adopting simple but powerful healthy habits, such as taking a walk during a coffee break instead of sitting at your desk, are scientifically proven to improve your health.
Definitely an exciting idea from a Cognitive Design standpoint. Modifying existing daily activities rather than making significant and abrupt lifestyle changes has a much lower cognitive load. Plus there is plenty of data and many small-step options that you can experiment with – two essential features of learning new behaviors from experience.
I am interested to hear from any readers that are using Basis.
