The paper introduces Sensori, a self‑supervised foundation model that learns health representations from 24‑hour raw tri‑axial wrist movement data. Trained on 122,640 participants across the UK, China, and the US, Sensori captures diverse movement behaviours, demographics, health axes, and physical function. In independent cohorts, the model improved disease classification for 52 of 102 conditions and incident disease risk prediction for 26 of 87 conditions, especially for neurological and psychiatric disorders.
arXiv:2608. 13316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models (FMs) trained on large-scale accelerometer data have been proposed as general-purpose feature extractors for health monitoring, but systematic evidence of their advantages is lacking.
arXiv:2608. 02946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate detection of sedentary behavior is important for studying health risks related to prolonged sitting, but posture-based classification remains challenging with wearable sensors, especially at the wrist.
arXiv:2411. 15240v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Wearable movement data is collected by nearly all commercially available smartwatches and is a valuable resource for mental health research, reflecting fine-grained temporal behavioral trends.
arXiv:2608. 15861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-grained wrist activity recognition can support applications such as procedural step guidance and context-aware assistance, yet acquiring labeled data for every new task, user, and activity granularity remains a bottleneck.
arXiv:2608. 09830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Body-focused repetitive behaviors, such as hair pulling and skin picking, are compulsive motor actions commonly associated with obsessive-compulsive and anxiety disorders.
arXiv:2607. 27635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wearable sensors continuously capture fine-grained multivariate time-series data, providing opportunities to model behavioural patterns associated with health outcomes.
arXiv:2605. 22759v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While ubiquitous wearable sensors capture a wealth of behavioral and physiological information, effectively transforming these signals into personalized health insights is challenging.
arXiv:2607. 06617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wearable motion sensing provides a continuous and scalable window into human behavior and health, making it a natural fit for foundation models, yet its pretraining and scaling principles remain poorly understood.
Falls are a major health concern for older adults, and wearable sensors have been widely explored for detecting falls and enabling timely intervention. However, real-world falls are extremely rare: collecting 100 of them requires an estimated 100,000 days of monitoring, resulting in severely limited labelled data for training machine learning models.
WearableQA is a new benchmark that tests AI systems on health reasoning using real-world wearable data from 200 users, each with up to 500 days of daily measurements. It contains 4,084 ten‑option multiple‑choice questions derived from wearable time series, blood biomarkers, and demographics, and is organized into 16 question types that distinguish data‑driven computation from physiological interpretation and single‑signal from cross‑signal reasoning. Evaluation of 14 large language models shows wide performance gaps, indicating that the benchmark remains challenging and useful for diagnosing model capabilities.
arXiv:2608. 15309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous multimodal sensing now allows human physiology to be observed throughout daily life rather than only during occasional clinical visits.
arXiv:2606. 00345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wearable and mobile sensing technologies enable continuous monitoring of human behavior and health in real-world settings.