mDOT Center Receives NIH Administrative Supplement to Advance WristPrint Technology
The mDOT Center is excited to announce that it has received an NIH administrative supplement (Grant Number: 3P41EB028242-04S1) to support the advancement of WristPrint, a groundbreaking wearable sensing platform designed to transform mobile health research. This award highlights the Center’s commitment to creating next-generation technologies that integrate seamlessly into everyday life while delivering powerful and clinically meaningful insights.
WristPrint leverages continuous sensing from wrist-worn devices to capture fine-grained accelerometry data in real time. By pairing advanced sensing hardware with innovative computational models, WristPrint enables more accurate and less burdensome methods for monitoring health beyond the clinic. The technology addresses a core challenge in mobile health: balancing data quality, scalability, and user privacy while reducing participant burden.
This administrative supplement provides resources for:
- Scaling WristPrint prototypes to support deployment in larger Center Projects and pilot studies.
- Validating sensing capabilities against gold-standard lab measures to ensure accuracy and reliability in diverse real-world environments.
- Expanding WristPrint integration with the mDOT Center’s digital toolbox, including cloud-based data pipelines, open-source APIs, and analytic frameworks.
- Supporting Center collaborations, enabling new CPs and SPs to leverage WristPrint in studies focused on stress, physical activity, sleep, and chronic disease management.
Importantly, WristPrint builds on prior foundational research that examined how wrist-worn accelerometry can not only advance health monitoring but also raise critical questions about privacy and user re-identification risks (Saleheen et al., 2021).
By advancing WristPrint through this NIH supplement, the mDOT Center is taking a significant step toward expanding the scope, precision, and trustworthiness of wearable health technologies for real-world impact.