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Uncertainty in current and future health wearables

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Expect inherent uncertainties in health-wearables data to complicate future decision making concerning user health.

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              Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 12
              December 2018
              104 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/3293542
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