TECI

Impacts of biowearables on children

By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Researchers at SFU’s Tangible Embodied Child-Computer Interaction Lab (TECI) are concerned with the ethical effects of biowearables on children. Biowearables refer to apps or wearable devices that track data from the body, such as Fitbit watches. TECI researchers are strongly urging parents to have conversations with their children about using this technology. The Peak spoke to postdoctoral researcher Dr. Alexandra Kitson, who works in the TECI lab alongside Dr. Alissa Antle.  While there is significant research on data privacy with technology like biowearables, Kitson noted a gap in the research surrounding how they made people feel.…

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