Wearables

• Drew Radcliff

• Jeff Chudik

• Zach Ganz

•Matthew Williams 

•Thomas Ramirez

•Torrey Hutchison 

OUR TEAM

Hypothesis• If wearables have a primary role in the enterprise

environment, then companies can benefit by improving security, saving money, and increasing efficiency.

• Can they improve employee satisfaction and health?

• Can they improve current business processes?

• Can they be used as authentication?

Challenges• Security

• Privacy

• User Experience

• Connectivity

• Fragmentation

• Immature Ecosystem

• Scalability

• Form factor

• Battery life

• Higher price point

Percentage of consumers who would buy a fitness band a certain price points

FINDINGS• Corporate Wellness Programs

• Can increase employee health and happiness

• Reports show lower turnover rate after adopting corporate wellness and wearables

• However, these programs should be optional

• Some employees react differently to wearables and some can find tracking fitness information to increase anxiety[1], [2]

Key Points: Studies have shown wearables can increase employee happiness and lower turnover rates

• Improves Employee Efficiency [3]

• Employees wearing wearables while on job are more productive

• Implementing wearables can also increases employee satisfaction

FINDINGS CONT.

Key Points: Wearables can make employees more efficient

FINDINGS CONT.• Employee Benefits Ultimately Lead to Enterprise Benefits

• Employee wellness leads to lower insurance rates for enterprises

• Happier employees leads to lower turnover and higher productivity [1], [3]

• Increased employee efficiency leads to greater overall results

 

Key Points: Improving employee health can create tangible benefits for the enterprise

• Disney MagicBand [4]

• RFID Bands used for access control, guest tracking, and purchases in Disney Land

• Epicenter [5]

• Implanted wearable device used to authenticate users [5]

• Theatro– The Container Store

• Wearable voice recognition and Wi-Fi voice for employees [6] [7]

FINDINGS CONT.

Key Point: Wearables are useful for many applications in the enterprise environment

WEARABLE AUTHENTICATION • Multifactor Authentication systems in one of four ways

1.What you have

2.Presence factor or proximity factor

3.Biometrics

4.Proof of alternative knowledge [12]

TEST PLAN • Example Tasks

• Typing a set of lines

• Watch an exciting Youtube video

• Walk 20 feet

• Pickup and move a 20 lb box across the room

• Why these tasks?

• Tasks were designed to engage sensors that were available on all bands

PRELIMINARY RESULTS MATT VS JEFF

Key Points: Peaks and valleys do not overlap/stride length

PRELIMINARY RESULTS MATT VS MATT

Key Points: Peaks and valleys are very close. Distance between strides are the same

SUMMARY • Wearables can provide many benefits for the enterprise

• Lower turnover rate

• Save money on insurance

• Potential use as authentication mechanism

• Enterprise has intangible benefits too

• Increased employee efficiency

• Increased employee happiness

• Increased employee health

NEXT STEPS 1. Compile literature review article

2. Acquire bands for study/testing

3. Discover or create a way to export data from band

4. Conduct experiments based on test plan

5. Collect and document testing results

REFERENCES• [1] E. Cath, “Can wearable technology boost corporate wellbeing? -

ProQuest,” Proquest, 2015. [Online]. Available: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1706364364/fulltextPDF/2895CC6680E54F48PQ/1?accountid=13360. [Accessed: 01-Apr-2016].

• [2] C. Wellness and C. Wheelock, “WHITE PAPER Enterprise Wearable Technology Case Studies 40 Profiles of Wearable Applications in Automotive ,” 2015.

• [3] J. Boitnott, “Wearable Tech Is Improving Employee Productivity and Happiness,” Entrepreneur.com, 2015. [Online]. Available: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/245458. [Accessed: 01-Apr-2016].

• [4] Disney, “MagicBands & Admission Cards | Walt Disney World Resort,” Disneyworld.disney.go. [Online]. Available: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/plan/my-disney-experience/bands-cards/. [Accessed: 01-Apr-2016].

• [5] L. Mearian, “Office Complex Implants RFID Chips in Employees’ Hands,” Computerworld.com, 2015. [Online]. Available: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2881178/office-complex-implants-rfid-chips-in-employees-hands.html. [Accessed: 01-Apr-2016].

• [6] Theatro, “How The Container Store Uses Wearable Tech to Think Outside the Box | CIO,” 2015.

[7] A. Sacco, “Wearable computer for retail,” CIO.com, 2014. [Online]. Available: http://www.theatro.com/sites/default/files/Product Files/datasheet_wearablecomputerforretail-2.pdf. [Accessed: 01-Apr-2016].[8] R. D. Labati, R. Sassi, and F. Scotti, “ECG biometric recognition: Permanence analysis of QRS signals for 24 hours continuous authentication,” Proc. 2013 IEEE Int. Work. Inf. Forensics Secur. WIFS 2013, pp. 31–36, 2013.[9] T. Lugovaya, “Biometric Human Identification based on ECG,” Electrotechnical University “LETI,” 2005. [Online]. Available: https://physionet.org/physiobank/database/ecgiddb/biometric.shtml. [Accessed: 02-Mar-2016].[10] D. Gafurov, E. Snekkenes, and P. Bours, “Gait authentication and identification using wearable accelerometer sensor,” 2007 IEEE Work. Autom. Identif. Adv. Technol. - Proc., pp. 220–225, 2007.[11] M. O. Derawi, C. Nickely, P. Bours, and C. Busch, “Unobtrusive user-authentication on mobile phones using biometric gait recognition,” Proc. - 2010 6th Int. Conf. Intell. Inf. Hiding Multimed. Signal Process. IIHMSP 2010, pp. 306–311, 2010.[12] L. O’Gorman, “Comparing passwords, tokens, and biometrics for user authentication,” Proc. IEEE, vol. 91, no. 12, pp. 2021–2040, Dec. 2003.