Remote Health Monitoring in Children: Needfinding in Parents

Abstract

Wearable devices seem to be ubiquitous in today’s world. From a runner tracking their jogging route, to the gamification of exercising by achieving steps, to keeping up with notifications from apps and calendar updates, wearables serve as multi-functional devices that attempt to track, analyze, and provide insights about wellness data in our everyday lives. Although wearables among adults have seen an increase since 2016 in usage of approximately 9%, the percent usage for children under the age of 18 is largely undocumented (Liu, 2019). This article focuses on discovering parental needs for remote health monitoring in children and leveraging those needs to recommend device specifications and design guidelines for future children’s wearable devices.