Views of individuals with spinal cord injury on the use of wearable cameras to monitor upper limb function in the home and community

This study explores the perspectives of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) on using wearable cameras to monitor their hand function at home and in their community. The participants showed low concerns about data confidentiality when clinicians or researchers used the first-person videos and were more comfortable when only automatically extracted metrics were stored. Despite privacy and comfort concerns, participants believed that the information obtained from wearable cameras would be useful for researchers, clinicians, and themselves.

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  Participants expressed relatively low concern regarding privacy when clinicians or researchers used first-person video, especially when only automatically extracted metrics were stored.
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  Participants felt information about hand usage at home would be useful to researchers, clinicians and themselves.
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  Participants were interested in wearable technology, but had reservations about comfort and frequent use of the wearable camera system.