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Wrist-Worn Mobile Alcohol Sensor May Boost Alcohol-Use Research
The researchers suggested that participants who used the wrist-worn device might be less likely to drop out of studies.
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Scientists at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) and the University of North Carolina (UNC) created a wrist-worn sensor that collects data on alcohol consumption less obtrusively.
UNC's Jimikaye Courtney said the nickel-sized sensor can detect transdermal alcohol concentrations, then wirelessly send the data to a smartphone for transfer to the cloud.
The researchers said the data gathered by the BACtrac Skyn monitor concurred with data gathered by ankle-worn devices and self-reporting.
Said Penn State's David E. Conroy, "Accessing that information in real time opens up a whole host of new possibilities for monitoring and detecting risk states and outcomes. Also, if we can understand when a person has started drinking—not relying on them to tell us—but rather picking up the signal that a person is eliminating alcohol, we could possibly do some interesting things with respect to predictive modeling of risk and just-in-time intervention to mitigate that risk."
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