Smart devices
Report
Generative AI in children’s lives: issues in the use of AI toys, companions, chatbots and devices
This report offers an accessible way for parents, educators, policymakers and anyone in children’s lives to think about some of the challenges that come from younger children’s use and engagement with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools, devices and toys, ranging from AI chatbots and companions to AI teddy bears.
Report
Surveillance for sale
The United States and foreign government agencies can acquire sensitive personal information, like smartphone geolocation records, from data brokers. The author of this paper argues that stricter privacy protections are necessary to strengthen U.S. national security, human rights and economic interests.
Guide
More-than-human wellbeing
This is a reader for the More-than-Human Wellbeing exhibition which draws on several research studies on the ways of knowing and being within and beyond the world of self-tracking apps, electronic medical records and smart devices for documenting illness and promoting health and wellbeing.
Journal article
Stress watch: the use of heart rate and heart rate variability to detect stress: a pilot study using smart watch wearables
Stress is an inherent part of the normal human experience. Although, for the most part, this stress response is advantageous, chronic, heightened, or inappropriate stress responses can have deleterious effects on the human body. It has been suggested that individuals who experience repeated or prolonged stress exhibit blunted biological stress responses when compared to the...
Journal article
Smart devices and wearable technologies to detect and monitor mental health conditions and stress: a systematic review
Recently, there has been an increase in the production of devices to monitor mental health and stress as means for expediting detection, and subsequent management of these conditions. The objective of this review is to identify and critically appraise the most recent smart devices and wearable technologies used to identify depression, anxiety, and stress, and...