A new study by CRI research PhD student Anirudh Krishnakumar and collaborators at the Child Mind Institute and the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in New York has just been published in npj Digital Medicine.
The full text of the study is available here
The study examines wearable devices for tracking the position of the hands in relation to the head, which can be used to monitor body-centered repetitive behaviors (BFRBs), recurrent and damaging body-directed behaviors such as nail biting and hair pulling. The researchers found that the use of a new device, called Tingle, which includes thermal sensors, achieves significantly higher accuracy in position tracking than previous methods. These results demonstrate the importance of thermal sensors for position tracking, and suggest future applications for the Tingle wearable device in a wide variety of contexts.
